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China: the place for the airport in Antarctica located
Huge stretch of blue ice found by the Beijing team
![United States Sea Ice Runway in Antarctica](https://avionews.it/resources/big/8876cf9ea73626c8d42b34456a9d4e2d.jpg.webp)
The expedition team sent by China to find the place where to build an airport to host the researchers' planes (maybe also military once?) has found a huge area of blue ice where they can start work, allowing the transport aircraft strategic Xian Y-20 Kunpeng to be able to land and take off. The researchers drilled ice to check its thickness and in these days will continue to inspect it, so as to allow...
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AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency