Overview:-
- Unless you’re a dog-sledding devotee, you may not like flying into McMurdo Station on Antarctica. The good news is that the runways are long. The bad news is that they are made of ice, and that the weather is very variable.
- Located on the shore of McMurdo Sound, the U.S. Antarctic Station enjoys 12 months of below-freezing average temperatures and is served by three runways. Pegasus Field is a 10,000-foot blue ice airstrip reassuringly named after Pegasus, a Lockheed C-121 Constellation transport that crashed here in bad weather in October 1970.
- You can still see it sitting in the snow. Fly into McMurdo at the right time of year and your pilots will land using night vision goggles because it will be dark all day.
