NASA Airborne Science Aircraft Complete Summer Deployments

Several NASA Airborne Science aircraft that were deployed for science missions during the summer of 2013 to study subjects from hurricane formation to forest fires have returned to their home bases at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center and the Dryden Aircraft Operations Center in Southern California.

NASA's Global Hawk 871 lifts off from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on its return trip to its home base at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center on Sept. 25, 2013.
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