The volcanic ash sensor has been successfully tested on an airplane.

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The volcanic ash sensor has been successfully tested on an airplane.

21.11.2013. The flight test of an experimental technology called Avoid has proven successful. Avoid - an infrared camera capable of detecting ash cloud particles before the aircraft could collide with them. 

Volcanic ash from Iceland's volcano left most of the North European aviation on the ground for a week in 2010.

The Avoid Experiment was launched by Airbus, Easyjet and Nicarnica Aviation and took place in the Bay of Biscay in the East Atlantic. An A400M cargo plane scattered ash from that very volcano in Ireland at an altitude of between 9,000 and 11,000 feet (about 3 km.), Recreating the conditions of 2010. The test cloud, which contained particles invisible to the naked eye, was two miles in diameter.

Airbus A340-300 - the aircraft, equipped with the Avoid device, flying up to the ash cloud, found and identified it from at a distance of 50 km. Airbus plans in the future to equip aircraft with this device that fly in areas with a risk of volcanic ash ejection.

Recall that in 1982 year ignited all four engines aboard British Airways Boeing 747, After that, he flew into a cloud of ash near Indonesia. The plane descended almost to 6 km. Before the team could restart the engines.

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