The EC-130Q: nearly 100 feet (30 meters) long with a 132-foot (30-meter) wingspan gives a long-awaited boost to the fieldwork capacity of NCAR-affiliated scientists. The aircraft can carry 240 percent more equipment, fly 170 percent farther and ascend 10 to 30 percent higher than NCAR's Lockheed Electra. The EC-130Q will carry an array of instruments providing measurements important to atmospheric chemistry, dynamics, radiation, cloud physics and oceanography.
