Antarctic rescue

[JeppUpdater]

Kenn Borek Air out of Canada current has a couple Twotters making a rescue attempt for one or two people at the South Pole.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ick-scientists-from-the-south-pole/?tid=sm_tw

Between February and October, only one type of aircraft can fly to, land at and take off again from the South Pole: the tiny Twin Otter. Two of these hardy, winter-proof bush planes, operated by Canadian polar service firm Kenn Borek, landed at the British-run Rothera research station on the Antarctic coast Monday, each of them carrying a pilot, a co-pilot, an engineer and a medic.

One plane and its crew remained at Rothera to provide search-and-rescue capability as needed. The second was prepped for a journey and equipped with skis to allow it to land on snow and ice.

We had several Twotters and turbine DC-3s stop through Dallas on their way back to Canada a couple months ago. Hard to miss that bright red!

 

[bimmerphile]

In 1999, a doctor who discovered a cancerous lump in her right breast treated herself — even performing her own biopsy and administering her own chemotherapy — for almost six months until the weather thawed enough for a rescue plane to arrive.

 

[CFI A&P]

Suck on that, Bear Grylls. Drinking your own urine is nothing compared to performing your own chemo.


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[ASpilot2be]

I would love to do that flying.

 

[higney85]

Suck on that, Bear Grylls. Drinking your own urine is nothing compared to performing your own chemo.


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If the drugs are available, performing for own chemo isn't that difficult. Some drugs are push, some are drips. The hard part is the days after.

 

[bimmerphile]

If the drugs are available, performing for own chemo isn't that difficult. Some drugs are push, some are drips. The hard part is the days after.

I think the hard part is performing a biopsy on your own breast

 

[thevideographer]

How about the guy who took out his own appendix?

 

[z987k]

I would love to do that flying.

Just become Canadian. So that you can work on a US contract.

 

[n57flyguy]

Success:

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/4553...t-leaves-south-pole-evacuating-sick-us-worker

 

[ppragman]

I would love to do that flying.

Me too, actually. Bush work of all kinds (especially floats) and hopefully one day, test flying is how I want to spend my career.

 

[ppragman]

Just become Canadian. So that you can work on a US contract.

Right? I wish someone here in the states would bid the contract.

 

[Kimo]

Never thought I would see the day when the mighty c130 Hercules would say "unable" and the little twin otter would take its place.

 

[z987k]

Never thought I would see the day when the mighty c130 Hercules would say "unable" and the little twin otter would take its place.

A Twin otter can take off 3 times in a hurc's roll. The only thing truly STOL about a hurc as there's nothing else that can lift that much that slow.

 

[Lawman]

A Twin otter can take off 3 times in a hurc's roll. The only thing truly STOL about a hurc as there's nothing else that can lift that much that slow.

I wonder what the per square inch gross weight impact is with an otter vs a Herk. I was amazed to find out a fully loaded 17 actually puts less weight per contact patch on a runway than a Herc due to all those tires.


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[ppragman]

I wonder what the per square inch gross weight impact is with an otter vs a Herk. I was amazed to find out a fully loaded 17 actually puts less weight per contact patch on a runway than a Herc due to all those tires.


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Welll...a twin otter only weighs like 12,500.