{"id":196,"date":"2025-12-09T19:11:38","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T22:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bawide.com\/micrositio\/?p=196"},"modified":"2025-12-09T19:11:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T22:11:39","slug":"avro-lincoln-t-02-the-long-range-explorer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bawide.com\/micrositio\/en\/2025\/12\/09\/avro-lincoln-t-02-the-long-range-explorer\/","title":{"rendered":"Avro Lincoln T-02 \u2013 The Long-Range Explorer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted has-medium-font-size\">The Avro Lincoln T-02, a British heavy bomber adapted by the Argentine Air Force, played a fundamental role during the 1950s in long-range exploration, reconnaissance, and aerial mapping flights over Antarctica.<br>In official documentation, the aircraft appears as Avro Lincoln B-003, re-registered LV-ZEI \u201cCruz del Sud,\u201d but it is the same aircraft that is usually referred to as Lincoln \u201cT-02\u201d in historical records.<br>Crewed by navigators skilled in celestial navigation, it flew great distances without radio support, navigating by stars and polar routes. It provided essential geographical information about the white continent, recorded coastlines, and supported initial scientific campaigns. Its flights operated from Patagonia to the Antarctic territory, opening unprecedented air routes. It also transported small critical cargoes to bases under construction. The Lincoln represents the heroic era of Antarctic aviation: extensive missions, limited technology, and immense human value.<br><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"305\" height=\"165\" data-id=\"168\" src=\"https:\/\/bawide.com\/micrositio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/avro-lincoln.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-168\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"310\" height=\"163\" data-id=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/bawide.com\/micrositio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/lincoln-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-169\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"303\" data-id=\"170\" src=\"https:\/\/bawide.com\/micrositio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/normal_AVRO06-lincoln.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-170\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>Notable Missions<\/summary>\n<p class=\"has-fira-code-font-family has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Operation \u201cLink\u201d (1951)<\/strong><br>First formal Argentine air operation in Antarctica. The Lincoln crossed the Drake Passage, reached Marguerite Bay, and linked up with General San Mart\u00edn Base by air, dropping supplies.<br><strong>Emergency Resupply (1953)<\/strong><br>Critical flight to airdrop almost a ton of provisions to aid San Mart\u00edn Base in an emergency situation. The flight was nonstop for more than 13 hours over open water and Antarctic ice.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Avro Lincoln T-02, a British heavy bomber adapted by the Argentine Air Force, played a fundamental role during the 1950s in long-range exploration, reconnaissance, and aerial mapping flights over Antarctica.In official documentation, the aircraft appears as Avro Lincoln B-003, re-registered LV-ZEI \u201cCruz del Sud,\u201d but it is the same aircraft that is usually referred [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-argentine-air-force","category-historicflights_en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bawide.com\/micrositio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bawide.com\/micrositio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bawide.com\/micrositio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bawide.com\/micrositio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bawide.com\/micrositio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bawide.com\/micrositio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199,"href":"https:\/\/bawide.com\/micrositio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions\/199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bawide.com\/micrositio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bawide.com\/micrositio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bawide.com\/micrositio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bawide.com\/micrositio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}