AvTalk Episode 106: How to run an airport in Antarctica
AvTalk - Aviation Podcast
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4.8 • 911 Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2021
⏱️ 35 minutes
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On this very special episode of AvTalk, we’re joined by Sven Lidström of the Norwegian Polar Institute to learn about Troll Research Station in Antarctica and the station’s blue ice runway. Troll Research Station As the operations coordinator at the Troll Research Station in Antarctica, Lidström is in charge of making sure the polar outpost […]
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to a very special episode of Av Talk. |
| 0:14.2 | I am Ian Petchenick joined with Jason Rabinowitz as always, |
| 0:18.8 | and our special guest today is Sven Lidstrom from the Norwegian Polar Institute. He is just returned from Antarctica and is now, I believe Sven, you're back in Norway? |
| 0:31.0 | Correct, I'm back in Northern Norway in Toronto. So you've gone from one |
| 0:36.4 | polar extreme to another but you've switched latitudes. Welcome and thank you so much for joining us. |
| 0:44.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:45.0 | Welcome Sven. |
| 0:46.0 | This is going to be a special episode I think. |
| 0:48.0 | Definitely our first special podcast episode where something terrible or just awful has not happened. |
| 0:54.5 | So this is very exciting. |
| 0:55.5 | Exactly, exactly. |
| 0:58.2 | So tell us a little bit about who you are and what you do in Antarctica. |
| 1:04.2 | Okay, so my job with the NUIDI |
| 1:07.5 | POR Institute is to do operations. |
| 1:10.2 | And one of the things is to maintain the airfield we have and it's been there since 2005 and it was built to make it easier for our scientists and staff to get access to the station. |
| 1:24.7 | Prior to that, we went down by ship, |
| 1:27.2 | and then we went, started flying, |
| 1:29.7 | and we flew out of Cape Town |
| 1:31.4 | to our Russian station, Nova Las Arleska. |
| 1:33.6 | And from there we flew on with smaller aircraft. |
| 1:37.2 | And then the Norwegian saw a big opportunity to build an airfield |
| 1:41.6 | right at the station, and it would give us the chance to fly via a gateway like |
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