As you can tell, the coffee on Thursday was over-caffeinated.
Do these guys know they’re being filmed?
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As you can tell, the coffee on Thursday was over-caffeinated.
I don't want to hear anything about holes in the plane. It pains me!
NASA's Operation IceBridge mission, the largest airborne survey ever flown of Earth's polar ice, kicks off its second year of study when NASA aircraft arrive in Greenland March 22.
From Paul Newman, mission co-project scientist: We have had some success in bolting our instruments onto the Global Hawk. We just completed installing the NOAA ozone instrument, led by Laurel Watts, one of several National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists participating in the campaign. (The principle investigator for the instrument is Ru-Shan Gao, but Laurel […]
From Paul Newman, mission co-project scientist: There is an old Latin quote: “Maxima omnium virtutum est patientia.” Or “patience is the greatest virtue.” When it comes to mounting science instruments on an aircraft, you need to continually return to that quote. We have 10 science instruments that we will be flying on the Global Hawk […]
From Paul Newman, co-project scientist: All of the GloPac instrument teams have now arrived at Dryden Flight Research Center, and our integration of instruments onto the Global Hawk UAS continues. We’re putting 10 instruments on the plane, and each team has 2 to 3 scientists working on their instrument. This means we have a lot […]
From Paul Newman, GloPac co-project scientist: A flight day with the Global Hawk flight day starts very early and runs very late. For a 7 AM takeoff, the plane must be pulled out to a concrete pad adjacent to the runway at about 4 AM. This means the crew must arrive by 3 AM to get […]
Like the booby bird, the Global Hawk is graceful in the air but awkward on the ground.
I cruised into the hangar and found a beehive of activity around the Global Hawk...Now I'm on the two most important tasks at the start of a field mission. 1) Find the coffee pot. 2) Find the bathroom.
The Global Hawk is a unique robotic plane that can fly for more than 30 hours at a time, soaring as high as 65,000 feet and as far as 11,000 nautical miles (12,659 miles).
