Tour company White Desert uses private jets to shuttle people to its Antarctic camps from South Africa. The largest option is the quad-engine Airbus A340, which touched down on the ice for the first ...

The view of an aircraft landing safely on an ice runway in the vast “white desert” of Antarctica is a beautiful thing. But it’s also an impressive achievement, with a lot of preparations and skillful ...

Hi Fly achieved a historic aviation first by successfully landing an Airbus A340 in Antarctica on November 2nd, connecting Cape Town to the Wolf’s Fang Runway. This inaugural flight initiates a new ...

The only way for engineers to expand the A340-300 without a cleansheet aircraft was to stretch it into the world's longest passenger jet at the time.

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You're currently following this author! Click to unsubscribe from email alerts. There are two ways to get to Antarctica: cruising on an expedition ship through the treacherous Drake Passage… See ...