The climate impact of aviation - DLR/NASA research flights over northern Germany

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The climate impact of aviation - DLR/NASA research flights over northern Germany


The joint research flights being conducted by the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) and the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) are now half complete. Today, on 24 January 2018, the fourth of eight planned joint flights took off from Ramstein Air Base in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The measurement flights are predominantly taking place in restricted airspace over Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. "DLR and NASA have combined their research resources, aircraft and measuring instruments to study the potential of alternative fuels for environment-friendly aviation and their impact on the atmosphere in more detail," says the DLR Executive Board Member responsible for aeronautics research, Rolf Henke. The international team of researchers conducted previous joint research flights on 17, 19 and 23 January.


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