Follow-up to Grey

Grey, you're so smart!  I KNEW you'd get it!  You're absolutely right!  The Delta with the flat bed is used to carry cargo between the airplanes and our cargo bay where I work!  The big, heavy pallets are taken on and off the Deltas with big forklifts!  (I have a video in the mail for you, showing the forklifts at work!)  The other Delta, with the big "box" on the back is used to move PEOPLE between the airplanes and our building!  "Ivan the Terra-bus" is what I rode into town on when I first got to Antarctica, but Ivan isn't always big enough for all the people that sometimes comes in on the airplanes, so they use Deltas like that one to carry even more people!

I'm glad you liked the big tractors!  They're fun to watch!  I went to a lecture and they told us about how they drive the big tractors all the way to the South Pole and back.  It was very interesting!  Your idea that the tractors come to Antarctica on cargo planes was very good!  They DO!  But the LC-130 airplane isn't quite big enough for these huge machines - they come in on the C-17 Globemaster!  It's a big, BIG airplane!  (You'll get to see this tractor drive out of the C-17 on the video I made for you!)

This is one of our tractors inside the C-17.  Can you imagine a tractor this big INSIDE of an airplane?

This is the C-17 taking off of the Ice Runway.  Do you see it's fat belly?

This picture was taken a long way away, but you can see how big the C-17 is next to the LC-130 Hercules.  The LC-130's are big airplanes too (they're they two planes with propellers to the left of the C-17), but they look tiny next to the Globemaster, don't they?

I'm really glad you like the pictures and answering the questions, Grey.  I like playing this game with you!    :-)