Andrew Smith is an aviation consultant and Managing Director of NAS Corporation. ​. Prior to founding NAS Andrew Smith founded Avient Ltd.

https://www.andrewrhsmith.com/

This is a placeholder for a podcast on Avient & Andrew Smith.

Avient was a cargo airline. Andrew Smith founded the UK office in 2001.

Website
https://www.andrewrhsmith.com/

Twitter
https://twitter.com/AndrewS_avient

Welcome to podcast 3.

Andrew Smith is an aviation consultant and Managing Director of NAS Corporation.

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Prior to founding NAS Andrew Smith founded Avient Ltd.

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Avient was an all cargo airline which flew DC-10s & MD 11s.

Andrew was instrumental to Avient's success.

The first landing of a commercial Boeing 757 on a blue-ice runway in Antarctica occurred on November 26, 2015, at Union Glacier. The landing was a joint partnership between Antarctic Logistics & Expeditions (ALE), Loftleidir Icelandic, and NAS Corporation Limited (NAS).

Andrew Smith & NAS Corporation helped with organising the first commercial airline flight to Antarctica. Andrew Smith first started flying to Antarctica with Avient in 1997. Avient flew to the region for many years operating their own IL76.

A full video of the first landing can be seen in the links below.

Links:

https://www.andrewrhsmith.com/post/andrew-smith-antarctica
https://www.nascorporation.biz/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv2O1lUbsWE&t=9s&ab_channel=NASCorporation