ARGENTINE PLANES
Visit To Pole Station Three aircraft from the Argentine Antarctic base of General Balgrano landed at the Amundsen-Scott Sorth Pole Station about 2 a.m. on Thursday. The purpose of the visit was to give Argentinian aircrews experience in Antarctic flying conditions and to enable aeriail reconaissance work to be carried out. The three planes—a DC.3 and two Beavers—will remain at the Pole Station for three days. They will then fly on to McMurdo Station, where they will stay for three days and then return to the Pole before continuing to thedr home base, about 850 miles away. This was the first time an Argentinian flight of three planes had landed at one time at the Pole Station.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30901, 6 November 1965, Page 25
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