New Zealand
trip - Christchurch
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| Bruce Raymond
trying to remove the thick ice on the wing. |
Stewart Wilson
trying to assist Bruce to no avail - ice wins. |
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| Welcome to
Christchurch! An ice-block PC-12 - what a way to start our day. It was sunny
and warm the day before. |
PC-12 disappears
in a cloud of de-icing fluid. The first time this aircraft has suffered
this indignity. |
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| Tony McFarlin
and Murray Hudson of Capital Jet Services in front of our PC-12 after it
was de-iced at Christchurch. |
Pilatus PC-12
front view in the cold morning light. The US Antarctic base is the building
to the left behind the PC-12. |
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| Pilatus PC-12
winglet and the mountains in the distance - not much snow in this area -
yet (11/6/03). |
Fantastic
young mountains viewed from PC-12 on way to Lake Tekapo in the south of
the South Island. |
