Globemaster is first to land on new Antarctic deep-snow runway
U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s Terry Melendy recently measures aircraft wheel friction patterns between takeoffs and landings left by the heavy C-17s on the newly constructed Phoenix runway in Antarctica.

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