Fresh Eggs Survive a 328-Foot Drop
Dropping 15 dozen eggs from an airplane at 328 feet will not necessarily give you scrambled eggs.
Australia’s Antarctic Divison claimed Friday to have safely dropped the eggs from a Hercules C-130 cargo plane to its research base on Macquarie Island, 1,500 miles south of Sydney.
“None of the eggs broke after being dropped from a height of over 100 meters from the Hercules C-130. It’s fresh poached hens’ eggs, fried eggs, omelets and scrambled eggs for breakfast at Macquarie Island,” the Antarctic Division said in a news release.
Each egg was individually packed in a plastic bag, then placed in a foam rubber pouch which was sealed in another layer of foam.
“I got a surprise when I opened the packaging--I hadn’t ordered eggs,” Mcquarie Island cook Craig Silver said.
“They’re great--really good color and they taste fantastic. The eggs we have in the cool store were landed last December during the ship resupply and are too old--they’ve no color and they just taste old.”
Antarctic Division director Jim Bleasel said the packaging technique was borrowed from the U.S. Antarctic program.
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