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Friday, July 24, 2009

Modified U-2 spy plane takes pics over Durham

NASA ER-2The same type of plane that once took pictures of Russian missiles in Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 is now being used to assist the studies of ecology students at the University of New Hampshire.

Last week a NASA ER-2 scientific plane flew 70,000 feet above the town and took pictures. The ER-2 plane is a modified U-2 spy plane, according to Scott Ollinger, associate professor at the UNH Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space.

"It's specialization is its capacity of flying at very high altitudes," Ollinger said. "A commercial plane will fly at about 35,000 feet but the ER-2 flies twice as high. It's really on the upper edge of the atmosphere."

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