FLIGHT 2 NOTES:
REPLICATOR TAPE MISLABELED FLIGHT ONE ONE START OF TAPE, BUT CORRECTLY LABELED FLIGHT 2 ON END OF TAPE.
17:43:10 Cloudscope recording.
17:49:50 Take off, replicator power on.
17:51:06 Drove replicator 30 frames. Bumpy at 1 km.
17:53:00 Drove replicator 50 frames.
17:54:34 Cloudscope illumination nob set at 10:00 (rotation as if it were a clock).
17:57:13 Cirrus cells ahead with fall streaks, airplane at 4833 m.
18:01:03 Mix of cirrus and contrail ahead.
18:02:16 UAV operating above us. Limits our altitude for the moment.
18:05:45 Ran 30 frames on replicator.
18:09:45 Seeing white arc from cirrus above. Very colorful halos.
18:10:07 Very colorful halos above.
18:12:00 Bright sundog with arc.
18:14:00 Colorful halos above.
18:16:00 Replicator on standby. Bank of cirrus above - weak halo.
18:18:45 Cloudscope -7.8 C.
18:20:00 Cloudscope illumination nob at 12:00.
18:21:53 Thickening cirrus above now.Cirrus above more uniform than before, but we are southeast of CART site.
18:22:32 Drove replicator for 10 frames.
18:23:48 Climbing in altitude.
18:25:40 Cloudscope illumination knob on 2pm setting, -27.5 C total temperature.
18:26:00 10,256 m, 253 mb, -40 C. Cirrus above not making halos.
18:27:51 In cloud, cloudscope showing ice crystals.
18:29:07 Strong sundog with arc. 23 miles southeast of CART site.
18:29:45 10666 m.
18:30:24 cloudscope showing small ice crystals (< 100 um).
18:31:30 -32.7 C cloudscope, cirrus patchy.
18:32:40 Cloudscope images of plate polycrystals.
18:35:35 Replicator pump on.
18:36:00 Replicator on, filmspeed 1.
18:36:45 Cloudscope showing small crystals.
18:37:07 Filmspeed 2 for replicator, 75% applicator tip setting.
18:39:10 -49 C outside temperature?
18:39:41 80% replicator setting for the applicator.
18:42:49 Filmspeed 1 on replicator.
18:43:00 Event marker, replicator.
18:43:15 Replicator auto off sequence started.
18:44:20 Cloudscope total temperature reading below -50 C.
18:45:17 Replicator on, filmspeed 1. Patchy cirrus.
18:46:23 Event marker, replicator.
18:46:29 Replicator filmspeed 2.
18:47:24 In cirrus, -38.6 C.
18:48:37 Event marker, replicator.
18:49:12 Filmspeed 1, replicator.
18:49:25 Replicator event marker.
18:49:56 Filmspeed 2, 80% applicator setting, replicator.
18:50:26 Filmspeed 3, thicker cirrus.
18:51:38 Filmspeed 2 replicator.
18:53:04 Event marker replicator.
18:54:26 Filmspeed 3 replicator.
18:54:41 Event marker, replicator.
18:55:46 Filmspeed 2, replicator.
18:56:21 Nice columns on cloudscope.
18:56:54 Again nice columns on cloudscope.
18:56:57 Event marker, replicator.
18:57:24 Scads of small crystals on cloudscope. Near base of cirrus, sublimation?
18:58:06 Filmspeed 1, replicator.
18:58:18 Replicator event marker.
19:00:03 Event marker, replicator.
19:00:47 Filmspeed 2, 75% applicator tip setting.
19:03:55 Filmspeed 2 to filmspeed 1, event marker 60% applicator tip setting.
19:04:41 Nice column on cloudscope, 10,666 m, -43 C.
19:05:54 Climbing.
19:06:26 Event marker replicator.
19:07:13 Small crystals on cloudscope.
19:07:51 Filmspeed 1,2 cycle. 63% applicator tip setting on replicator.
19:08:51 Weak halo.
19:09:42 Pump setting on replicator at 60%, wide open.
19:10:47 Replicator tip setting to 60%.
19:11:44 Replicator event marker, filmspeed 1.
19:12:00 At frame number 32,862, replicator is out of film.
19:13:52 Needle on cloudscope.
19:15:24 Nice columns, polyplates on cloudscope, to 150 um, 11,387 m, -50 C.
19:18:26 Small crystals (10 um) with occasional large crystals on cloudscope.
19:19:28 Small crystals only showing on cloudscope, -48 C.
19:26:21 Lots of small crystals, along with a few large (>150 um).
19:28:28 Same as previous.
19:29:42 Sundog with arc above.
19:30:11? Small crystals with large on cloudscope.
19:31:59 Bright halo with arc.
19:32:34 Same as previous.
19:36:28 Cloudscope showing lots of small crystals with occasional large.
19:38:52? 22 deg. halo showing partial tangent arc below.
19:41:26 22 deg. halo with oval halo. Sundog. Great white arc out from sundog. Nature at its finest!
19:52:47 Great undersun, with a sundog feature nearby (undersundog?).
19:54:00 11,300 m, cloud top, -49 C. Another layer above.
20:00:59 Superb halo, sundog display again.
20:04:30 Small crystals on cloudscope.
20:08:21 1/1000 sec shutter speed setting with lamp on is giving quite nice images.
20:41:00 Absolutely fantastic halo, sundog, arc, and 46 deg. halo on bottom!
20:19:00 Concentration to 75 / Li on PMS 2DC, some later to 150 / Li.
21:00:00 Cloudscope off.
21:09:00 Land.
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