Pylons

Pylons under each wing can carry up to five instruments each. These probes mostly make in situ aerosol and cloud particle measurements where airflow disturbance and thus perturbations to the particles carried in the air are kept to a minimum. Significant advances in such probes, particularly in the volume of data collected, requires high bandwidth signal wiring, connectors, and data handling hardware. This project will upgrade and install such infrastructure into the existing pylons to enable the development and operation of next-generation particle countering and imaging probes. Complimentary changes to pylon canisters will reduce weight, improve access, and increase payload flexibility.