midwinter medevac

1 marking the end of the runway, with my homemade strobe lights, they lasted for at least 5h	2 5 strobe lights in action, marking the middle of the runway	3	4
5	6 the runway from the station	7	8 warm up shack
9 one of our fulies, they did an awesome work setting the fuel pit up for the plane in the winter temperatures	10 runway seen from the pit, burn barrles mark the runway	11	12
13 a bit longer exposure, the moon gave some light and weather conditions were perfect	14 approach lights and burn barrales	15	16 incoming plane, on final
17	18 plane on the taxiway	19	20
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29 KGB arrived, awesome job of the aircrew	30	31	32
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37	38 bamboo mats for the skies, otherwise the plane will freeze to the ground - they wroked great	39	40
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57	58	59 unloading the plane	60
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65	66	67	68 heaters for the plane
69	70	71	72 moon above the plane
73	74 after successfull landing we are picking up the light boxes, temperature -62°C	75	76 still blinking and going strong :)
77	78 refueling the burn barrles for take off	79	80
81	82 plane fuel is heated and kept warm	83 fuel pit	84
85 plane and engines are kept warm, otherwise they won't start	86	87	88
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93	94 getting the patients on board, of course you won't see any patient pictures	95	96
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101	102 our awesome Doc	103 our South Pole medical team - you hope they never get busy, but they did an incredible job	104
105 another key player, our station manager with the Doc, he dis an awesome job as well	106	107	108
109 both patients are on board	110	111	112
113	114 getting close now	115 engiens are warming up	116
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133 and here they go	134	135	136
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141	142	143	144 take off, have a good flight
145	146 it's done :)