Скачать или смотреть Power of ERDC | ERDC’s ice & snow expertise supports aviation milestone

Join us Tuesday, December 16 for the latest episode of the Power of ERDC Podcast, as we discuss how the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) enabled a military aviation milestone.

When the New York Air National Guard’s 109th Airlift Wing needed to find a suitable location to land its LC-130 Hercules cargo plane during an Arctic exercise in March, it turned to ERDC for help.

Although the nearby sea ice was not thick enough to support the maneuver, ERDC devised a plan to land the massive plane on a nearby freshwater lake, a novel approach that required less ice. Leaning into ERDC’s deep expertise in developing ice and snow runways, the 109th completed the landing at Parsons Lake in Canada’s Northwest Territories – the first time the U.S. military has landed an LC-130 on a frozen freshwater surface.

We will be joined on the podcast by T.J. Melendy, a research civil engineer at ERDC’s Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory.

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