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<\/strong>23 January 2014<\/p>\n

Just a quick blog post with links to a couple of videos I\u2019ve shot while at our Tall Tower field camp.<\/p>\n

The first is a video of the flight down to Antarctica from boarding the plane in Christchurch to stepping out into the bright sunlight and snow of Antarctica. You can find this video here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The next video is from the stormiest day we experienced while at \u00a0our field camp. On this day the wind was blowing at 20 to 25 mph with a temperature hovering near 20 degrees F. In the video<\/a> you can see snow blowing across the surface. This blowing snow has created large drifts, several feet tall and tens of feet long, around all of our tents.<\/p>\n

The final video<\/a> shows us flying our SUMO (Small Unmanned Meteorological Observer) UAV. The plane is launched by hand and lands on its belly.<\/p>\n

During the SUMO flights I control the plane during takeoff and landing with a model airplane remote control. Other than during takeoff and landing the plane flies a pre-programmed flight plan. Melissa has been handling the pre-programmed portion of the flight by watching the plane\u2019s progress on a laptop computer. From this computer she can see the current weather conditions experienced by the plane, where it is relative to the pre-programmed flight plan, and can instruct the plane to alter its flight plan as needed.<\/p>\n

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Melissa watching the progress of a SUMO flight on a laptop computer.<\/p><\/div>\n

In another blog post I\u2019ll give you more details about our SUMO flights and the research we are doing with these planes.<\/p>\n

Thanks for reading.<\/p>\n

John<\/p>\n

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