ATom-2 RF11 21 February 2017 Anchorage - Palmdale
Our final research flight travelled back south and east from Anchorage, Alaska to the home base of the DC8 in Palmdale, California.
As we arrived in Anchorage an day earlier than expected, the aircraft had to stay outside with a heater cart pumping in hot air overnight. That meant that two people had to be with it at all times. I offered to take the first 3 hour shift with Tim as I thought it was the easiest to deal with. Brownie points go to others who took the much later shifts!
Our final flight from Anchorage back into Palmdale, was a short 6 hours that was pretty much a blur for me. We are currently offloading all the instruments. It took us nearly a month to put everything carefully on the aircraft in just the way we wanted it. But we have just two days to rip it all off again, box it up and send it home. It makes the end of the project even more hectic than the deployment but we can always sleep when we get home!
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