Immediate Report of Victoria University Of Wellington Antarctic Expedition 1987-88: VUWAE 32
ii) Helicopter Operations
ii) Helicopter Operations
Our put in was combined with K191, and took 3 lifts to Fang on 9/11/87.
I Our lift to the Hut was delayed 1 day by weather. On 12/11/87, 2 cargo trips from S.B. to hut, and then 1 to Fang with the Grizzly, and 2 from Fang to Hut were made. The last of these medivae'ed Garth to Scott Base with a viral infection.
K191 returned to S.B. in 1 flight on 16/11/87. K044 returned in 2 nights, 1 from Fang with the Grizzly, and 1 from the hut.
The initial lift on 9/11/87 was free, and the return from Fang was a backload on S081's put in.