Pegasus Field
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Pegasus Field was an airstrip in Antarctica, the southernmost of three airfields serving McMurdo Station. It closed due to excessive melting in the summer season caused by warmer temperatures combined
White ice runway at Pegasus Field
Lockheed C-121J "Pegasus " in 1965. The aircraft ultimately wrecked in Antarctica thus giving the airfield its name
The wreck of the Pegasus, the field's namesake (2003)
LC-130 at Pegasus Field, 2014
Ice Runway
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The Annual Sea-Ice Runway is a type of seasonal ice runway made on frozen McMurdo Sound for the U.S. Antarctic Program during the summer Antarctic field season in proximity to Hut Point Peninsula, whi
Pegasus Field
…a white ice runway. Other local runways are the snow runways at Williams Field (ICAO: NZWD) that are limited to ski-equipped aircraft, and the former Ice Runway (ICAO: NZIR) on the sea-ice available during the summer Antarctic field season. The limitations of these additional fields meant that before Pegasus…
C-5 Galaxy unloading at sea ice runway, near McMurdo Station, 1999.
Control tower for the annual sea ice runway, 2007
C-5B Galaxy lands at McMurdo for Operation Deep Freeze '90
C-141 Starlifter on Ice Runway, near McMurdo Station, 1996.