Site Prep

1.All of our equipment has arrived and it is being tested and readied for installation. The office space has been kindly loaned to us by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).

2.The Queenair at dawn, parked at Aero Services, Juneau Airport (JNU). The mountains behind are part of Douglas Island. 

3.The Queenair stands ready at sunset, first day of flight trials in Alaska. 

4.The nose mount video camera peers through the custom plexi radome. 

Flight Testing

1. Everyone readies the airplane for our first flight. At the bottom left, Chris's head can be seen as he brings up the WAAS system. Andy is to the right monitoring the display and video system. Roger is forward left readying the short baseline GPS attitude system. Keith is in the left seat where he can see and modify the display. Sky is in the right pilot seat and has command of the airplane. 

2. JNU Runway 26, all systems are up. The aircraft is parked on the numbers as we perform a brief runway survey before takeoff. The runway centerline can be seen lighted out the windscreen with dawn lighting the terrain just beyond the end of the runway. 

3. The Queeair cockpit is augmented with tunnel-in-the-sky-over-terrain display which is driven by the Stanford WAAS platform.  

4. The group celebrates after a successful day of flight testing. From l to r are: Todd, Chris, Roger, Sky, Andy, and Keith 

Cockpit Display and Camera View

1. Synchronous images of the virtual scene and real view on final approach to JNU 

2. and at runway 26 threshold. 

3. The display made the front page of the Juneau Empire Wednesday, 12 August 1998.

A Little Stick Time

1. Who's in the left seat? 

2. Better yet, who is THAT? 

3. Oh my word, what's going on? 

4. Andy looking mighty comfortable with that pair of pilots. 

Some Juneau Scenery

1. Panorama --- A one of a kind shot of Glacier Bay from ~5000ft in the Queenair.

2.Inside --- WADGPS Lab flight test HQ at JNU (courtesy NCAR). 

3. Outside --- Looking up the Mendenhall glacier from Douglas Island. The airport is across Gastineau channel to the left. 

Aniomated GIF: The guys were really dedicated with all this scenery right out their window