An 80,000 pound compaction cart is unloaded from a C-17 jet at Phoenix Airfield. It was the heaviest single piece of cargo to be airlifted by a C-17 to Phoenix Airfield. 
Additional weight is added to the cart and pulled by a tractor over snow to compact the snow to the hardness of concrete.
Lee Smith
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