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BUILDING DYE-2 |
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Photo by Bill Nichols, 61st
TCS, 1959 |
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Airlift
to the DYE site was not without incident.
Several of the aircraft had their nose gear and nose ski damaged
during landings on the ice cap.
Although the cap looks perfectly smooth, hard "sastrugi"
ridges criss-cross the surface. This
accident occurred when the nose ski struck a large hard sastrugi ridge. After this event, the contractors at the
DYE sites were obliged to bulldoze and drag landing areas to insure smoother,
sastrugi free, areas for landing. The
aircraft was eventually repaired and flown back to the Lockheed factory in
Georgia for complete repairs. (Bill
Nichols) |
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Photograph
by Lt. Col. Wilbert Turk, 1959 |
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Another view of 70-490, named the “Es-Ki-Mo
Special” by crews of the 61st Troop Carrier Squadron. |
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