Eggs arrive intact
“Eggs okay — no scrambleback” was the jubilant message yesterday from the 17 Americans spending winter at the South Pole. The 120 dozen eggs were dropped by a United States Air Force Star Lifter aircraft on Saturday in the first of two midwinter drops, but it was not known until the eggs were unpacked whether they had survived the parachute landing.
The head of terminal operations at the United States naval support force base at Christchurch Airport, Major Paul Violette, received word yesterday that the fragile cargo had arrived intact. The first of the midwinter drops, which included provisions for personnel and huskies at New Zealand’s Scott Base, was followed by a second flight yesterday with another 81 bundles of supplies for McMurdo Station.
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Press, 24 June 1986, Page 8
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