more at scitech.quickfound.net “THE CHALLENGE OF ANTARCTIC FLYING, FROM RADM BYRD S FIRST POLAR FLIGHT TO OPERATION DEEP FREEZE, C-130 HERCULES AIRCRAFT OPERATIONS IN THE ANTARCTIC.” US Navy film MN-10489 Public domain film from the National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied. The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and equalization. Split with MKVmerge GUI (part of MKVToolNix), the same software can recombine the downloaded parts (in mp4 format): www.bunkus.org part 1: www.youtube.com en.wikipedia.org …First Antarctic expedition, 1928–1930 In 1928, Admiral Byrd began his first expedition to the Antarctic involving two ships, and three airplanes: Byrd’s Flagship was The City of New York (a norwegian sealing ship previously named Samson that had come into fame as a ship in the vicinity of Titanic when the latter was sinking); a Ford Trimotor called the Floyd Bennett (named after the recently deceased pilot of Byrd’s previous expeditions); a Fairchild FC-2W2, NX8006, built 1928, named “Stars And Stripes” (now displayed at the Virginia Aviation Museum, on loan from the National Air and Space Museum); and a Fokker Universal monoplane called the Virginia (Byrd’s birth state). A base camp named “Little America” was constructed on the Ross Ice Shelf and scientific expeditions by snowshoe, dog-sled, snowmobile, and airplane began <b>…</b>