UPPER ATMOSPHERE RESEARCH USING AIRCRAFT.

An existing airborne installation is described and its potentialities are outlined. The particular properties of a jet aircraft (movability, speed, altitude) combined with appropriate ionospheric sounding equipment (receivers, optical apparatus, magnetometer, and cosmic ray recorders) constitute a u...

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Main Authors: GASSMANN, George J., Pittenger,Eugene W.
Other Authors: AIR FORCE CAMBRIDGE RESEARCH LABS L G HANSCOM FIELD MASS
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1966
Subjects:
Aircraft
Atmospheric Physics
*ATMOSPHERIC SOUNDING
IONOSPHERE
ELECTRON DENSITY
IONOSPHERIC PROPAGATION
RADIO WAVES
SKY BRIGHTNESS
SOLAR ECLIPSES
IONOSPHERIC DISTURBANCES
NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS
COSMIC RAYS
Arctic
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0636415
http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0636415
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Summary:An existing airborne installation is described and its potentialities are outlined. The particular properties of a jet aircraft (movability, speed, altitude) combined with appropriate ionospheric sounding equipment (receivers, optical apparatus, magnetometer, and cosmic ray recorders) constitute a unique capability. After reviewing past results obtained from more limited airborne equipment, an outline of operations and objectives is given, pertaining to: Magnetic Shell Propagation, Arctic Radio Physics, Eclipse Effects, Dumping of Trapped Electrons, Equatorial Electrojet, Nuclear Detonation Effects, Ionospheric Drifts, Airglow and Cosmic Ray Surveys. (Author)

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