Andy Porter

“An Otter’s range can be 800 to 1,000 miles,’ Studd replies, ‘but it’s also possible to refuel in mid-air as it were, by carrying drums of fuel and piping them into the system.’ He laughs. ‘I was flying the Director – Dr Laws – back from Halley and the team was piping fuel in from the spare drums carried on board. I made the engines miss on purpose and shouted back to the crew, “Faster, you bastards”.”
― Stanley Johnson, Antarctica: The Last Great Wilderness