> "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.
>>

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