Wind Shear of Low-Level Jets and Their Influence on Manned and Unmanned Fixed-Wing Aircraft during Landing Approach by Lutz Bretschneider, Rudolf Hankers, Shanna Schönhals, Jens-Michael Heimann, Astrid Lampert

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First study using a fixed-wing drone for systematic measurements of aerosol vertical distribution close to a civil airport by Barbara Harm-Altstädter, Anna Voß, Sebastian Aust, Konrad Bärfuss, Lutz Bretschneider, Maik Merkel, Falk Pätzold, Andreas Schlerf, Kay Weinhold, Alfred Wiedensohler, Ulf Winkler, Astrid Lampert

“…For this purpose, the fixed-wing research drone called ALADINA (Application of Light-weight Aircraft for Detecting in-situ Aerosol) was operated at a distance of approximately 4 km downwind of the German airport Berlin Brandenburg (BER) on October 11–19, 2021. …”
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Unmanned Aerial Systems for Investigating the Polar Atmospheric Boundary Layer—Technical Challenges and Examples of Applications by Astrid Lampert, Barbara Altstädter, Konrad Bärfuss, Lutz Bretschneider, Jesper Sandgaard, Janosch Michaelis, Lennart Lobitz, Magnus Asmussen, Ellen Damm, Ralf Käthner, Thomas Krüger, Christof Lüpkes, Stefan Nowak, Alexander Peuker, Thomas Rausch, Fabian Reiser, Andreas Scholtz, Denis Sotomayor Zakharov, Dominik Gaus, Stephan Bansmer, Birgit Wehner, Falk Pätzold

“…In this study, three systems are presented which have been adapted to the particular needs for operating in harsh polar environments: The fixed-wing aircraft M<inline-formula> <math display="inline"> <semantics> <msup> <mrow></mrow> <mn>2</mn> </msup> </semantics> </math> </inline-formula>AV with a mass of 6 kg, the quadrocopter ALICE with a mass of 19 kg, and the fixed-wing aircraft ALADINA with a mass of almost 25 kg. …”
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