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RE: Wednesday walk, and a wet Wednesday - - Bottenintnin Lake Alaska
howdy again bashadow! wow I find it hard to imagine how a plane can land on ice and maintain any kind of control!
howdy again bashadow! wow I find it hard to imagine how a plane can land on ice and maintain any kind of control!
They have been fitting skis to planes pretty much since the beginning of airplanes. All the C-130 Hercules Aircraft that supply McMurdo in antartica have skis.
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howdy sir bashadow! well I knew they had skis for water but I never thought about having them for ice and I still don't know how they keep from spinning around or going sideways! lol.
And I never knew that planes THAT big were fitted with skis! wow.
thanks for the education sir bashadow!