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What is this???
Posted: 08 Jun 2011, 20:57
by MIKE JG
Never seen this before, a variation of the O-2. Wonder what it's being used for?
http://www.fencecheck.com/forums/index. ... 814.0.html
Re: What is this???
Posted: 08 Jun 2011, 21:59
by Stewart Pearson
Hey Mike,
According to what I found, it's called a CIRPAS Pelican, converted from USAF O-2A 68-111550.
CIRPAS (Center for Interdisciplinary Remotely-Piloted Aircraft Studies) Pelicans were highly instrumented, rear propeller aircraft designed to measure atmospheric turbulence, mean variables, and remotely sensed measurements of sea surface characteristics, mapping out variability in the momentum, heat, moisture, and radiative fluxes, as well as boundary layer structure in support of CBLAST investigations.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst. use them (there are only 2).