Full Name: Alternative-Fuel Effects on Contrails and Cruise Emissions

Platform/Location/Time: NASA LaRC Falcon, NASA DFRC DC-8, March-April 2013, Palmdale, CA

Overall Goal: Understand the effects of biofuel blending on aircraft engine emissions, ice clouds, and climate

What we studied:
Aircraft engine exhaust emissions and contrail formation both on the ground at cruise conditions.

Some Cool Pics:

Photo of the DC-8 from the Falcon
NASA Langley Group in front of the Falcon
Rich Moore	Eddie Winstead
Greg Slover, Rick Yaksy & Matt Berry (Dryden)	Flight Planning
Dramatic reductions in soot emissions