In characterizing and understanding atmospheric behavior when conducting high altitude solar powered flight research flight planning engineers and meteorologists are able to maximize the use of available airspace and coordinate aircraft maneuvers with pilots to make the best use of changing sun elevation angles. The result of this cooperative research produced a new world record for absolute altitude of a non-rocket powered aircraft of 96,863 ft (29,531.4 m). The Helios prototype solar powered aircraft, with a wingspan of 247 ft (75.0m), reached this altitude on August 13, 2001, off the coast of Kauai, Hawaii. The analyses of the weather characterization, the planning efforts, and the weather-of-the-day summary that led to at record flight are described in this paper.


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    Titel :

    Meteorological Support of the Helios World Record High Altitude Flight to 96,863 Feet


    Beteiligte:
    E. H. Teets (Autor:in) / C. J. Donohue (Autor:in) / P. T. Wright (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2002


    Format / Umfang :

    22 pages


    Medientyp :

    Report


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




    Meteorological Support of the Helios World Record High Altitude Flight to 96,863 Feet

    Teets, Edward H., Jr. / Donohue, Casey J. / Wright, Patrick T. et al. | NTRS | 2002



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