Brisbane engineers install $825,000 sensor on Airbus to measure the air up there

By Cameron Atfield
Updated February 28 2017 - 1:18am, first published 1:00am
Qantas engineer Andrew Howard oversaw the 500-hour installation on the Hawaiian Airlines plane. Photo: Lisa Maree Williams
Qantas engineer Andrew Howard oversaw the 500-hour installation on the Hawaiian Airlines plane. Photo: Lisa Maree Williams
The sensors are located under the cockpit of the A330.  Photo: Lisa Maree Williams
The sensors are located under the cockpit of the A330. Photo: Lisa Maree Williams
A map of the 50,580 IAGOS flights taken between 1994 and 2017. It shows a?lack of flights in the south Pacific. Photo: IAGOS
A map of the 50,580 IAGOS flights taken between 1994 and 2017. It shows a?lack of flights in the south Pacific. Photo: IAGOS

Brisbane-based Qantas engineers have spent the best part of the past month installing sensitive atmospheric monitoring sensors on a Hawaiian Airlines Airbus A330 in a bid to fill a major gap in global climate research.

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