Air drop

Last night, we had a huge food supply drop. It was 60,000 pounds worth of food which is suppose to carry the winter over folks for 2 winter seasons. They did this early because sometimes, when they wait until January or February, it's already too cold to fly so the wintering over Polies are short on their season food supply.

It normally takes a C-130 plane about 3 hours to fly from McMurdo to South Pole - it's about 730 miles. But the C-17 airplane is bigger and faster - it flies the same route in about 1 1/2 hrs. So the food drop was made by the C-17. There were 8 drops and 4 parachutes per load to land everything.

There were 8 of these loads - that's a lot of food!