Our 'Featured Videos' are of a group of flights of a variety of aircraft landing at Antarctica on a 'Blue ice runway'. The first video is posted by Hi Fly Airline of their A340, registration 9H-SOL, in 'C24 / Preighter' configuration landing on a flight from Cape Town on November 2, 2021. A 'Preighter', also known as cargo in cabin, is an aircraft originally intended to carry passengers but which is operated temporarily as a cargo aircraft by loading freight in the passenger cabin. This flight was carrying supplies for a seasonal 'adventure tourism' operation. |
Our second video, posted by Extreme Aviation Iceland, is of an Icelandair Boeing 767-300ER landing and departing at 'Troll' ice runway in Antarctica in January 2022. |
Our third video is a Boeing 737 MAX 8 operated by Czech Republic-based Smartwings (now the largest Czech airline) landing and taking off January 26, 2022, also at the 'Troll' ice runway, serving the Norwegian research base. |