> From CNN - A U.S. Air Force pilot has landed a plane in Antarctica in the
> dark for the first time using night-vision goggles, a feat that could lead
> to more supply flights to scientific bases in the frozen continent during
> its dark winter months, officials said Friday.
>
> The C-17 Globemaster cargo airplane landed in a driving snowstorm on the
> 10-kilometer (six mile) ice runway at the U.S. Antarctic research center
> at McMurdo Station, after months of practice runs by pilots using the
> goggles.
>