One of the greatest pleasures of traveling by airplane is the fact that you can get to a location that would take days to get to by car or boat just mere hours, but something no one ever enjoys is the fact that planes tend to experience turbulence from time to time. Some turbulence could be minor, while others may result in your aircraft dropping a few hundred feet. That may be a thing of the past if a new turbulence-detection system is implemented into future aircrafts.
The DLR German Aerospace Center developed what’s currently called the DELICAT, which is a laser-based turbulence-detection system that can help detect clear-air turbulence by shooting short-wave ultraviolet lasers in front of the aircraft. The results of the lasers blasts are then analyzed in order to measure and detect any possible clear-air turbulence.
Hopefully the sooner the DELICAT can be implemented into aircrafts, the sooner we’ll all be able to enjoy your flights without having our stomachs feel like they’re being ripped out from out bodies due to an unforeseen pocket of turbulence.
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