0
30
E
W
30
Palmer
Station
4
3
Amundsen-Scott
South Pole Station
1
2
6
Marble Pt.
McMurdo
Station
5
0
200
400
600
800 1000 km
15
0E
0W
15
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Figure B3. Potential blue-ice runway sites: 1-Mount Howe, 2-Reedy Glacier, 3-Patriot Hills, 4-Patuxent Range, 5-
Rennick Glacier, 6-Mill Glacier. (From Swithinbank 1991.)
skis at the Pegasus site. Also, this flight taxied
be revived if the Pegasus II concept proves to
be unworkable. The principal difference be-
and took off from the Pegasus site on wheels. The
tween the two is that a considerable amount of
results of these test landings and takeoffs were
effort is required to roll and compact snow to
considered to be very successful and have dem-
form a firm surface layer upon which wheeled
onstrated that compacted-snow pavements can
aircraft can land. It is not clear whether the
be made sufficiently strong for wheeled C-130
effort required to develop the required surface
operations.
Development of the Pegasus I runway is not
strength is less or more than required to pre-
being pursued at this time. The concept might
pare a blue-ice runway.
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