Stratospheric Glider Flights Will Test Real-Time Turbulence Detection

In 2019, Stratodynamics’ HiROD unmanned glider was dropped from a balloon at 114,434 ft., setting a Canadian record.
Credit: Stratodynamics
A technology enabling real-time detection of clear air turbulence is to be tested on flights of a high-altitude unmanned aircraft from Spaceport America in New Mexico. The flights by Canadian company Stratodynamics and the University of Kentucky are funded under NASA’s Flight Opportunities program...
Graham Warwick

Graham leads Aviation Week's coverage of technology, focusing on engineering and technology across the aerospace industry, with a special focus on identifying technologies of strategic importance to aviation, aerospace and defense.

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