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What's the matter with China's Antarctic permanent airport? Has the Antarctic permanent airport been

According to the news, members of the Antarctic research team took the snowdragon to Antarctica on November 2, 2018. An important task of this investigation is to build China's first permanent airport in Antarctica on the ice sheet 28 kilometers away from Zhongshan Station in Antarctica. What's the matter with China's Antarctic permanent airport? Has this airport been built?

What's the matter with China's Antarctic permanent Airport

Compared with the domestic airport in China, the planned airport is not large. But its requirements for system navigation, communication system and meteorological support system are not low. For example, in order to solve the problem of meteorological support, three years ago, China had set up automatic meteorological observation stations at alternative locations to accumulate relevant meteorological information.

Prior to this, in 2009, during China's 25th Antarctic expedition, a 4-kilometer-long and 50 meter wide 'Kunlun Airport' runway was built about 3 kilometers west of the Kunlun station in Antarctica for the use of fixed wing aircraft. In January 2010, China's 26th Antarctic expedition built another airstrip, the eagle airport, on the Antarctic inland ice sheet. The airport has an airport runway with a length of 600 meters and a width of 50 meters. At the same time, hundreds of barrels of aviation kerosene are stored for emergency alternate landing or refueling of fixed wing aircraft.

What's the matter with China's Antarctic permanent Airport

But according to the insiders, it is no less difficult to build a permanent airport in Antarctica than an inspection station.

"As a major Antarctic scientific research country, China must ensure the logistics support capacity of independently carrying out Antarctic activities. For this reason, the construction of new airport is of great significance: it connects China's Antarctic strategic needs and scientific research needs, and also provides necessary conditions for China to have a voice in airspace management in Antarctica. 'the industry pointed out.

The construction of the new airport means that China's first polar fixed wing aircraft, snow hawk 601, will have the Antarctic home airport, which will provide guarantee for China to be familiar with the operation system of the Antarctic airport, to build the Antarctic aviation network system, and to operate large aircraft and multiple aircraft fleet in the future.