ERASMUS

  • windy conditions
    Don鈥檛 know whhhhhy there鈥檚 no plane up in the sky, stormy weather, wind鈥檚 been staying high, since foreverOk so I鈥檓 not exactly a songwriting genius.The AMF is the small complex of containerss with the radars on the roof. This is our base of
  • Tough launching conditions
    A small team from RECUV (Gijs DeBoer, Doug Weibel, Tevis Nichols and Phillip D鈥檃more) arrived in the arctic on April 2nd for a two-week campaign for the Evaluation of Routine Atmospheric Sounding Measurements using Unmanned Systems (ERASMUS) project
  • A gaggle of DataHawks hang out in the bed of the pickup
    With a final automated flight in the fog and a series of low level box patterns over the beach on Saturday, we concluded the summer ERASMUS deployment to Oliktok Point, Alaska. With over 150 aircraft launches, 50+ profiling flights,
  • DataHawk in flight
    Multiplexered up that is! Thanks to the heroic efforts of our 麻豆影院 colleagues (being at DIA at 6:45am to drop off a package is heroic) and the amazing machine that is commercial air travel, the multiplexers arrived in Deadhorse on
  • Prepping for a profile and scanning for bears!
    Starting yesterday, August 6th, we began data collection flights. Because the autopilot is still on the blink, they are manually flown up to around 500m (1640ft). Unfortunately, this means that the shape of the profiles is very dependent
  • DataHawk launch
    While we managed to avoid damaging any aircraft today and brought a 6th plane back to flight status, that's about all for this 3rd day at Oliktok. The first flight showed that the changes made last night solved the pitot/static isssue, but
  • DataHawk and radar dome
    We've gotten into the air! Thankfully, the weather cooperated today and we ended up with some gorgeous flying weather. Blue skies, calm winds, and no mosquitoes make flight operations a breeze, and were very much appreciated after the past two
  • View from the AFM facility
    After arriving at the Oliktok Point Long Range Radar Station (LRRS) around midday yesterday, we spent the afternoon at the atmospheric observation facility (called the AMF) preparing the small fleet of DataHawk aircraft for flight, and the
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