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From CNN - A U.S. Air Force pilot has landed a plane in Antarctica in
the dark for the first time using night-vision goggles, a feat that
could lead to more supply flights to scientific bases in the frozen
continent during its dark winter months, officials said Friday.

The C-17 Globemaster cargo airplane landed in a driving snowstorm on
the 10-kilometer (six mile) ice runway at the U.S. Antarctic research
center at McMurdo Station, after months of practice runs by pilots
using the goggles.


Can NVG's see through a driving snow storm?

Graham

Good question. And with the aircraft's landing lights on, the amount of
reflected light from the snow-flakes would normally overwhelm the
goggles. I know from personal experience that NVGs aren't that great when
using them in heavy rain and active illumination.



Which was pretty much what I was thinking.

Graham



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"Those who beat their swords into ploughshares will plough for those who
didn't".


High intensity IR LED's in the landing lights would do the job quite well
without having to worry about the reflected active illumination from the
main landing lights, in conjunction with IR reflectors (as used on the back
of most military vehicles in night time full tactical situations) would
finish the job, Hell I have been doing some experiments with IR stuff for
the last couple of months, and it would seem pretty trivial (and I can get
my ****y little civilian grade high intensity IR's to project for at least
100 meters with a decent reflector) so for the guys in the military who have
been working with this stuff for decades it should be a relative walk in the
(dark)park :-)

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God made me an atheist. Who are you to question his wisdom?