NASA Aircraft Flies High Over BC Wildfires to Study Pyrocumulonimbus Clouds
A high-altitude research aircraft from NASA flew over British Columbia’s wildfires over the weekend in a bid to better understand weather events generated by large blazes. Online aviation tracking shows the ER-2 plane flew back and forth over B.C.’s southern Interior more than a dozen times on Saturday on a flight of more than six hours that took off from Great Falls, Mont. Data from the Flightradar24 website shows the plane spent about four hours at an altitude of 60,000 feet over the Clinton area, where the massive Pear Lake wildfire has been burning, It also swung east over Lake Revelstoke before returning to U.S. airspace....
A NASA research aircraft, the ER-2, flew over British Columbia’s wildfires to study weather events generated by large blazes. The plane conducted multiple passes over the southern Interior on Saturday for over six hours, taking off from Great Falls, Montana. It spent approximately four hours at 60,000 feet altitude over the Clinton area, near the Pear Lake wildfire, and also flew over Lake Revelstoke before returning to the US.
- NASA’s ER-2 research aircraft flew over B.C. wildfires over the weekend.
- The flight aimed to better understand weather events generated by large blazes.
- The plane flew for over six hours on Saturday, originating from Great Falls, Montana.
- It spent about four hours at 60,000 feet over the Clinton area, near the Pear Lake wildfire.
- The aircraft also flew over Lake Revelstoke before returning to U.S. airspace.
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