Ice airlift begins
PA Wellington A Hercules aircraft from No. 40 Squadron of the Royal New Zealand Air Force left Christchurch yesterday for the first of 10 flights in the annual R.N.Z.A.F. Antarctic airlift. The. flights will, be. made over the next three weeks to the ice runway on Ross Island to provide supplies for the New Zealand and United States Antarctic research programmes.
This will be the seventeenth year that the airlift has been mounted. Returning on the first flight will be three members of No. 40 Squadron who have' spent the last month flying United States Navy Hercules aircraft at McMurdo Station. They are Flight Lieutenant J. D. Crosby, of Hawera, a pilot; Sergeant K. J. Bates, of Otaki, a flight engineer; and . Sergeant W. K. Bennett, of Manaia,, a loadmaster.
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Press, 18 November 1981, Page 6
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