Story by Petty Officer 2nd Class Taylor J Vencill | Naval Postgraduate School | 11.25.2020
As the recent Monterey county wildfires burned more than 150,000 acres, Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) researchers took to the local skies in a specially-equipped DeHavilland Twin Otter UV-18A aircraft, basically a flying laboratory full of scientific instruments, to research the effects that smoke has on the atmosphere to help better understand how smoke can affect optical and infrared......
Story by Kenneth Stewart | Naval Postgraduate School | 10.22.2014
Visitors to the Naval Postgraduate School’s (NPS) Center for Interdisciplinary Remotely-Piloted Aircraft Studies (CIRPAS) are likely to be struck by two things, the odd looking aircraft and instruments that dominate the center’s hangar and the fact that despite the very serious work that occurs at CIRPAS, its world-class research team does not take itself too seriously....
