Check out our “Drillers Bike”. Its a Trek Antelope 820 single speed and front brake only. Pretty sweet ride.
This is a Caterpillar Challenger specially prepared for Antarctic Operations. These are the machines that are used to traverse to deep field camps. When the drill is traversed to Lake Willans these will be used to tow all of the equipment. They traverse at about 4-5 mph.
My nephew Parker loves planes and so do I:
DC3 aka The Gooney Bird
DC3
C 130 aka the Herc
This is the reel unit container. We spent the summer in Lincoln, NE building this part of the drill. Inside are two large hose reels, and a massive traction drive as well as enough control panels and wires to outfit a small submarine. There is some really cool stuff in here that we designed this summer. More on that some other time.
Fueling the day tank
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November 18th, 2012 at 3:37 pm
DC 3’s are way cool. One of the last true piston passenger planes still flying. I bet it’s a trick getting them started in that much cold.
November 20th, 2012 at 7:56 am
I think they have retro fitted all the DC-3s here to turbo prop engines so I think theyre quite a bit more reliable than the oschool planes. The ones down here were retro fitted by Basler in Wisconsin:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_DC-3
See the “Turbo Prop Conversion” section
November 19th, 2012 at 1:39 pm
Fascinating stuff! It’s really interesting to see what your days are like!