Video by Terry Melendy | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center | 11.15.2016
PHOENIX AIRFIELD, Antarctica (Nov. 15, 2016) -- A McChord Air Force Base C-17 Globemaster III crew and the Army Corps of Engineers teamed up to make the first landing and takeoff of a wheeled and fully-loaded cargo aircraft on a compacted-snow runway an otherwise routine event. A collaboration between the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center's Cold Regions Lab and the......
