Source: WRAL, 1/20/22


If you looked up early Wednesday afternoon and noticed an unusual looking white aircraft high up against the clear Carolina blue skies, you caught a rare glimpse of a spy plane-turned science platform for NASA. N809NA took off from Pope Army Airfield in Fayetteville before sunrise Wednesday morning and turned right over Raleigh-Durham International Airport before heading north for a seven-hour flight to the skies over southern Ontario. Scientists were studying cloud physics in a system expected to bring snow to Pennsylvania.

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