> "TacAN" wrote in message
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>> "Ned" aioe.org> wrote in message news:gadt3s$b8p$1@aioe.org...

>>> 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.
>>>

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>> Can NVG's see through a driving snow storm?
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>> Graham

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> Good question. And with the aircraft's landing lights on, the amount of
> reflected light from the snow-flakes would normally overwhelm the goggles.
> I know from personal experience that NVGs aren't that great when using
> them in heavy rain and active illumination.
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> "Those who beat their swords into ploughshares will plough for those who
> didn't".
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