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To the plane out to thwaites divide. i cant wait to get out and start the next phase of the melt project. you cant fly straight to thwaites, theres no ice runway that can take these big planes. so the 1,300 milejourney is done in stages. thwaites divide is the projects staging post in the middle of the west antarctic ice sheet. this is where passengers fuel and cargo are dropped off before being ferried on to the field sites on the glacier itself. the plan is only to stay here for a couple of da...

They say we wont fly anywhere. one only does anything in antarctica with the cooperation of the weather. antarctica is a place of extremes. it is the coldest, highest, driest and windiest continent on earth. capped by an ice sheet of up to five kilometres thick, this continent contains 90% of the worlds ice. i begin myjourney in new zealand. i dont need your passport, thats all good. they say travelling to antarctica is like travelling to another planet. so, here goes. the us air force provides ...

So, here goes. the us air force provides the planes. the safety briefing may be familiar, but nothing else about this flight is. im travelling with professor david vaughan, the director of science at the british antarctic survey. after flying due south for five hours, i get my first glimpse of antarctica, snow and ice stretching as far as the eye can see. finally, our destination. we are heading to mcmurdo. which is pretty much straight off over there. it is the last fingerhold

But it was the bare minimum of what was needed to achieve success in the battle of britain. the gratitude of every home in our island, in our empire and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes of the guilty, goes out to the british airmen, who undaunted by odds, unwearied in the constant challenge and mortal danger, are turning the tide of the world war by their prowess and by their devotion. never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. the battle of brit...

Itching to get cracking. so we are super excited. were out at lilyfield and were finally about to get to the plane out to thwaites divide. i cant wait to get out and start the next phase of the melt project. you cant fly straight to thwaites, theres no ice runway that can take these big planes. so the 1,300 milejourney is done in stages. thwaites divide is the projects staging post in the middle of the west antarctic ice sheet. this is where passengers fuel and cargo are dropped off before being...

States, and it cant come soon enough. america has just passed another awful milestone of 300,000 coronavirus deaths. nick bryant, bbc news, new york. lets get some of the days other news. the netherlands is going into a strict second lockdown, with the closure of all schools and shops for at least five weeks. restaurants and bars will remain closed. anti—lockdown protesters could be heard outside parliament as prime minister, mark rutte, announced the restrictions. seniorfigures in the afghan ...

Anti—lockdown protesters could be heard outside parliament as prime minister, mark rutte, announced the restrictions. senior figures in the afghan taliban have warned the us against breaking a commitment to withdraw troops in the next six months. speaking to the bbc, they said they would retaliate by resuming attacks on international forces. during the election campaign, joe biden spoke of retaining a small force in afghanistan. the trump administration had agreed to withdraw forces. a joint i...

The next six months. speaking to the bbc, they said they would retaliate by resuming attacks on international forces. during the election campaign, joe biden spoke of retaining a small force in afghanistan. the trump administration had agreed to withdraw forces. google says it had restored most of its services that were affected by a massive outage in many countries. users around the world reported problems with gmail, google drive, the android play store and maps. google said the problem hit it...

They work quickly to resolve them eventually, erica did get an exception allowing her to fill sophies prescriptions at a local pharmacy. and she says sophies issues then went away. but the experience still haunts her >> they stole a lot from us emotionally. i never got an apology. it was just "too bad." yeah she deserves more than that everyone deserves more than that. >> reporter: cynthia mcfadden, nbc news america has lost an aviation icon famed test pilot chuck yeager pushed new limits of h...

>> absolutely. great movie, great book by tom wolf, by the way. ed harris, great as john glenn in the movie but were talking about sam shepherd because the former u.s. air force officer died yesterday at the age of 97. talking about chuck yeager. on october 14, 1947, he became the first pilot the break the speed of sound as he flew the experimental bell xs 1 rocket plane over california. he said the ride was nice. just like riding fast in a car. the pilot later piloted fighter squadrons during t...