Good afternnon! After a long time of waiting for different types of permissions and several days of delay due to the hurricane we finally got it and this afternoon our Canadian helicopter took off for the first short test flight. After 45 minutes our pilots landed the helicopter and ACTOS/SMART-Helios safely at the Concorde Museum. During the flight, all systems seem to operate well but the first steps of data processing will continue over the night and I hope tomorrow we should know if everything was running well. The flight itself was mainly a profile under clear sky conditions up to about 7000 ft and then we had to go back since it was close to sunset. For usual measurement flights we expect an endurance of about 1.5 hours. For tomorrow a flight is scheduled in the morning after a briefing at 08:15 local.
Cheers, Holger
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