ABC tonite TS
 

An observational documentary following 250 daredevil scientists and pilots trying to catch the perfect thunderstorm - a vital missing piece of the climate change puzzle.

Supposed to be about the mob up here in Darwhine and features HECTOR
Probably turn into a climate change bed-wetter fest

Is it that the same mob that had the modified U-2 in Darwin that used to go and fly through Hector every afternoon in the mid to late 1980's?

Pretty cultural for you to watch ABC Tinnpis, I thought you would have been an Impaja TV man.

We don't get Imparja up here!!! :{

What only get ABC radio, Tinnpis probably still likes listening to The Adventures of Smoky Dawson.

Impaja she good TV especially the ad they had in the 80's for safe sex "if you going to go silly put a condom on your willy"

Have even been known to watch SBS when the footy season is closed
YAY ! two weeks to go

Dont think you would deliberately fly thru Hector in ANYTHING!
They are only looking for outflows up around 50 -60000"

SBS:- Sex Between Soccer, or so says Mrs Claret's soccer mad son. :}

I was pretty sure that a NASA U-2 was based in Darwin over a wet season,in about 86/87 and they used to launch off and fly through Hector starting at 5000' and working there way up at 5000' intervals until they got up 50,000'.
Nice way to spend your working day.

I won't get to see the program but from an ad I saw for it the aircraft looks like that Pegusus thing that was in Aus a couple of years ago.

Stationair8

Knowing HECTOR, that would probably take about a minute to get from 5,000 to 50,000, if the wings stayed on.:uhoh:

HECTOR..??....puleeze hexplane.:uhoh::confused:

Thanks for the link.....I must meet Hector one of these days...preferably from the ground.:eek:

straying off topic
 

I first saw Impaja in Peppi and thought how much more enjoyable Goolarri was. However , Impajia did have Dr Phil on that day,nothing on a good Catch and Cook though!:}

Hector, the only thing on Bathurst that works...http://www.augk18.dsl.pipex.com/Smileys/gringhost.gif

I went on a school excursion in 1979 out to the RAAF base and had a look around an Orion that some mad Yank scientists were flying through cyclones. I even have some pics somewhere.

K

Lets see if this works...

http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/g...cloneorion.jpg

I believe HECTOR got his name in WW2 when bomber crews used him as a navigational marker to get home after raids through the then Dutch East Indes. He was so reliable that they named him thus.:cool:

Kanga767 nice shot - I want one of those red/white striped poles at the front of my beast so I can push those b:mad:ds blocking the holding point out of the way;)

where are those buggers ASICs - jesus h!!

Tinpis - maybe things worked better back in the days when the island was brand nguiu:rolleyes:

Looks like some sort of terrorist training camp for young science students.

A TR-2 from NASA did operate from Darwin in the mid 80's. It worked in conjunction with a AP-3 also from NASA (not the one in your photo KAnga). The TR2 would fly above the storms at 60 -70 thou and the AP3 through the bottom. the idea was to bounce LIDAR signals from each aircraft and map the inside of the TS. The TR2 was also doing some work with the tropical area TROPOPAUSE which is much higher than the mid zone TROPAUSE and gives much lower OAT up at that height. I am guessing but from memory they would get -55 deg C, which is much colder than the norm.

I remember watching these guys on the radar up around Croker Is and SMP, but they worked much of the coast during those years.

Yea I would not have liked the job in the P3, flying under the stoms. Most of those buggers just about touch the ground!!

At least you could get around Hector, because it only covered the island and rearly got far off shore.

richo

I have a few more of that day, (Interesting pics of Grumman trackers in the 'hangars' over at RAAF Darwin) but, considering the last posts, maybe I shouldn't share lest I lose my current ASIC..:p

K