Easyjet to create ash cloud over Europe

MikeC

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this is likely to get some attention when it gets seen by chemmies:

A tonne of volcanic ash has been flown from Iceland to Luton airport in readiness for a "unique experiment" to test an aircraft warning system designed to detect ash clouds.

Ash from the Eyjafjallajokull volcano, which caused travel chaos in 2010, will be dispersed into the atmosphere in "controlled conditions".
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Another aircraft equiped with experimental ash detection gear will attempt to see and avoid the cloud.

I'm not sure how the ash will be dispersed, nor how large a volume a tonne will "fill" - ther doesnt' seem to be much on hte web about the more technical aspects of this.
 
Oh Noes a whole tonne!?

Id say this would be helpful in the weight vs plane vs cloud debate but it will be flagged as irrelevant/not the same so i doubt it will be useful to anyone but us.
 
Doubtful there will be any public pics but if there are I bet the visible trail will be very small. Doesn't matter though. They won't be able to make the correct weight to visibility correlation anyway.
 
The technology they are bragging about is the detection technology - not the dispersal - so yeah, they are bragging that they've developed somethnig new.
 
Doubtful there will be any public pics but if there are I bet the visible trail will be very small. Doesn't matter though. They won't be able to make the correct weight to visibility correlation anyway.
that was sort of my point. i wish we could fly a glass plane filled with water and shoot it out the back to show the weight vs cloud size fallacy. we can always hope for public pics, but i wont expect them, and i understand why they dont get published.
 
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