[FedCom] [HoustonScan] NASA Aircraft Take To Skies Over Houston For Air Pollution Study

[Eric C. Carlson]

I heard some air-to-air discussion today on 123.45 between NASA 525 and
NASA 529.  So there appears to be a third aircraft involved in the
pollution study (NASA 525).  One was letting the other know that the P3 was
dumping fuel and returning to EFD with an unspecified problem.  They also
discussed that a boat is involved and that it was supposed to be in
Galveston Harbor today.  One of the aircraft was supposed to be contacting
the boat.  Anyone catch anything on the marine channels?  Also, are there
any other NASA frequencies we should be checking related to this operation?
 230.5 doesn't seem to be used and 135.825 seems to be exclusively the NASA
809/817 flights doing unrelated activity.

-Eric


On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 9:24 PM, Eric C. Carlson <ecarlson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Looking on FlightAware, the relevant callsigns appear to be NASA 529 for
> the Beechcraft King Air 200 and NASA 426 for the P-3.
> http://flightaware.com/live/flight/NASA529
> http://flightaware.com/live/flight/NASA426
>
> -Eric
>
>
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