FLIGHTS TO McMURDO
Two Planned In August
Mid-winter flights from New Zealand were helping to make Antarctica like any other place—“you can go there when you want to,” Mr P. M. Smith, the United States National Science Foundation’s Antarctic programme director, said in Christchurch yesterday. Flights were made last June and August, but next winter two Hercules aircraft will go late in August only. Mr Smith said the aircraft would take 11 scientists and six men from the United States Navy’s Air Development Squadron 6. The fliers will be able to start helicopter work on a limited basis in August. Mr Smith said that most of the scientists who wanted to go to the Antarctic in winter were biologists. Mr J. W. Huffman, the foundation’s Antarctic research programme representative in Antarctica, said he hoped the Royal New Zealand Air Force would continue to fly its Hercules aircraft to McMurdo Sound, Apart from the United States, New Zealand was the only country making major flights to the Antarctic on a regular basis.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31576, 13 January 1968, Page 16
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