Flying to Pellucidar: Antarctic Aviation

Hood Charles W, Palmdale CA

Investigators

Abstract

The author intends to visit U.S. stations in Antarctica to complete a book on Antarctic aviation and especially on the role of U.S. in supporting international science. The work also will emphasize little-known (or small) early expeditions. The proposed volume would comprehensively document the history and current status of a key element of the logistics network that makes science possible on the southernmost continent and fill a gap in the existing published record on the topic; currently there exists just one book on Antarctic aviation, which is both out-of-print and dated. A second existing work focuses on one specific Naval-aviation unit and is therefore very limited in scope, relative to the topic of Antarctic aviation generally.