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Research Aviation Facility

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Welcome to the Research Aviation Facility's Home Page.
RAF is in the Earth Observing Laboratory (EOL)
of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).

About Us
We are located at Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport ™ (formerly Jeffco Airport).
10802 Airport Court
Broomfield, CO 80021-2561
Phone:   (303) 497-1030
Travel Directions Mission and Goals
How to Contact Us EOL Staff
Aircraft Fleet RAF's Instrumentation and Measurements
Requesting Use of Our Aircraft Technical Bulletins
and Tech Notes
NCAR/RAF Flight Crew Limitations
RAF Planning Calendars:
(updated 09 June 2008)
2008  (pdf, 13 kB) New!, 386 byte gif
2009  (pdf, 13 kB) New!, 386 byte gif
2010  (pdf, 14 kB) New!, 386 byte gif
2011  (pdf, 13 kB) New!, 386 byte gif
What's New
PASE (Pacific Atmospheric Sulfur Experiment)
PACDEX (PACific Dust EXperiment)
NSF/NCAR G-V (HIAPER)
Projected Development & Upgrade Schedule
Ongoing schedule adjustments are expected to accomodate future field deployments and potential funding limitations.
Investigator's Handbook
G-V Modular Inlet
A web page presenting the design for a general-purpose air-sample-inlet system.   We are soliciting comments from the scientific community.
Projected HAIS Instrumentation Availability
Approved and Tested RAF Wire and Tubing
(updated:   6 May 2008) New!, 386 byte gif
G-V New-Instrument Certification
Sample Data Package, Electrical (997KB pdf)
Sample Data Package, Mechanical (2.614MB pdf)
RAF's G-V Safety Briefing
download PowerPoint file (99.3MB)
HIAPER Project Office web site
(historical information only)
RAF's New Hangar photo gallery
Field Projects
RAF Project Documentation Summaries (since 1996)
ProgSci Project Home Page
(Progressive Science on the NSF/NCAR Gulfstream V)
RAF Field Project Computing Handbook
for users who want to:
  • integrate their computers and equipment to the RAF aircraft computing infrastructure
  • work with ground-based, real-time data products and RAF post-flight data
RAF Small Project Support
Non-UCAR Activity Release (Notice and Form)
Data and Software
RAF Archived-Data Catalog
Find projects by year, project number and/or name with ability to download data files
EOL's Mass-Store Data-Retrieval Web Page
A web page for selecting and downloading recent EOL project archived data from the CISL Mass Store System
RAF Software Product Guide
CPI Data and Software
EOL Data Policy
Interesting Stuff
Approved and Tested RAF Wire and Tubing
(updated:   6 May 2008) New!, 386 byte gif
A Review of High-rate Wind Gust Measurements from the NCAR C-130 Aircraft, by Don Lenschow, June 23, 2005
(Acrobat pdf file, 46KB)
RAF's G-V Safety Briefing
download PowerPoint file (99.3MB)
RAF's C-130Q Safety Briefing
download PowerPoint file (29.3MB)
Browser Version (MS Internet Explorer recommended)
Counterflow Virtual Impactor -- General Information
EOL/RAF Airflow Analysis Home Page
NCAR's Multichannel Cloud Radiometer (MCR)
Summary of the current specifications and research applications of the MCR
Synthetic Data Injector User's Guide
Development of New Capabilities for the C-130Q
Internal (Limited Access)
EOL Wiki Server RAF Science Wiki
RAF File System Information
Shows what file systems are available at Jeffco (also maps Windows folders and Linux file path names which are common to both)
Secure WebMail (EOL) (EOL WebMail Help)
Secure WebMail (UCAR)
EOL On-Line Computer Systems Help
Use this link to submit a help request.
EOL Systems Group Help Page
Lots of information about EOL's computers and network
RAF Assigned Project Numbers
Antarctica photos from NRL

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