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Pegasus Field is an airstrip in Antarctica, the southernmost of three airfields serving McMurdo Station. Pegasus is a blue ice runway capable of handling wheeled aircraft year-round. The other two are the snow runways at Williams Field that are limited to ski-equipped aircraft, and the Ice Runway on the sea-ice available during the summer Antarctic field season. The field is named after ''Pegasus'', a C-121 Lockheed Constellation, still visible there in the snow after crashing in bad weather on October 8, 1970. No one on board was injured. On September 11, 2008, a United States Air Force C-17 Globemaster III successfully completed the first landing in Antarctica using night-vision goggles at Pegasus Field. Previously air transport in the permanent darkness of the winter was only used in emergencies, with burning barrels of fuel to outline the runway. Pegasus and the Ice Runway are planned to be replaced with a new "Alpha Runway" which will be near Williams Field and be constructed using compressed snow technology ==Gallery== file:Galaxy Antarctica.jpg|United States Air Force C-5 Galaxy being off-loaded at Pegasus Field. file:Air Force Boeing 757 in Pegasus Field Antarctica.jpg|RNZAF Boeing lands at Pegasus Airfield on the Ross Ice Shelf during its maiden flight to Antarctica. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pegasus Field」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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