Il-76TD at Novolazarevskaya Station, Antarctica / Photo credit © Sergey Dolya, sergeydolya.livejournal.com On February 25, 1986, the heavy transport aircraft Ilyushin Il-76TD completed its first landing on a snow-and-ice runway […]
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Russia Conducts First Intercontinental ZALA UAV Control Operation in Antarctica
Photo © ZALA Aero Group press service Russia has successfully demonstrated intercontinental command-and-control of the ZALA T-16 unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) during operations in Antarctica for the first time. As […]
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The first flight of IL-76 with passengers and cargo was accepted at the airfield of the Antarctic Progress station
Photo by © AARI Zenit airfield at the Progress Antarctic station on November 9 received the first international flight performed by an IL-76TD-90VD aircraft of Volga-Dnepr Company. The flight was […]
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IL-76TD-90VD aircraft will deliver specialists of the next expedition to Antarctica
Photo by © UAC On 20 October the 69th Russian Antarctic Expedition departed St. Petersburg onboard the research vessel Akademik Fedorov. The participants of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute […]
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