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Earlier this year, a German team led a research mission over the Pacific Ocean to collect detailed measurements of the atmosphere, in order to better understand the chemistry of climate.
Using a heavily-modified Gulfstream G550 (pictured), the Chemistry of the Atmosphere: Field Experiment (CAFE) team’s CAFE-Pacific mission flew for up to nine hours at a time over the tropics from Cairns, reaching heights of up to 15km above the Pacific Ocean.
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Marc Puskeiler was one of the pilots of the High Altitude and Long Range (HALO) research aircraft, a joint initiative by German environment and climate research bodies, for the German Aerospace Centre (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, or DLR).
On this Australian Aviation premium podcast, he talks with Jake Nelson about the purpose of the mission, and what it was like to fly this unique plane.
