Antarctic Airbus Making First Touchdown On Ocean Ice : Australia’s Antarctic Airbus to establish its very first touchdown on Ocean Ice this week at a Italian research location, the Mario Zucchelli Facility. The Airbus A319 will most likely move in excess of 200 expeditioners coming from the Tasmanian urban area of Hobart, as the summertime research study period warms up in the frozen region. ” We have the first flight scheduled for early next week, followed by another four over the next two weeks, weather permitting,” air travel controller Sky-traders, pilot Captain Garry Studd pointed out within an announcement Friday. ” While we have landed the Antarctic Airbus the A319 on the sea-ice at McMurdo, as this will be a new location, surrounded by mountains.” Studd said, “in order to land the aircraft safely after the 11-hour trip, conditions on the terrain must be ideal, or else there is a possibility for things to go bad”. ” We are hoping for blue sky days and light winds...