November 8-9, 2005
National Center for Atmospheric Research - Boulder, Colorado

Attended by 75 representatives of NCAR, UCAR, NSF, other government agencies, and the scientific community, this final review provided attendees with the opportunity to review the conduct of the project from beginning to end, to discuss the successes of the project, and (where appropriate) to arrive at recommendations for the conduct of future projects of similar complexity and scale.

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Friday, March 11, 2005
Jefferson County Airport, Colorado

On the morning of 11 March 2005, UCAR/NCAR formally took delivery of the GV in Savannah, Georgia.

Tuesday, October 12, 2004
Boulder, Colorado

The NCAR HIAPER Project Office (HPO) and Earth Observing Laboratory (EOL) jointly hosted a workshop for the HAIS development teams at NCAR. During this one day event, HPO and EOL staff members presented a number of the PIs and co-PIs with information on the capabilities of the GV and the various infrastructure systems (e.g., research power, data acquisition, SATCOM, etc.). Additionally, instrumentation design and approval procedures were discussed, and all workshop attendees participated in group discussions of long-term instrumentation support needs and considerations.

Thursday, March 4, 2004
NCAR Foothills Lab 2 (FL2) Auditorium, Room 1022
Time: 2:00 – 3:00 p.m.

During this second tri-annual town hall session, representatives of the NCAR HIAPER Project Office (HPO) presented an overview of the current status of the NSF/NCAR GV development effort. Additionally, the leaders of the HIAPER data acquisition system and data display efforts gave summaries of the work currently underway to design and build these two essential infrastructure systems for the new platform. Members of the engineering and design support team for the GV were in attendance to answer general questions about the design and configuration of the aircraft and gave presentations on design plans for optical view port window mount and equipment rack designs.

All interested NCAR and UCAR staff members and members of the local (Boulder) scientific community were invited to attend.

For additional information about the town hall meeting or the HIAPER project in general, please contact the HPO at 303-497-2005 or hiaperinfo@ucar.edu

October 7, 2003
Boulder, Colorado

The first tri-annual NCAR/UCAR HIAPER "town hall" meeting took place on Tuesday, 7 October, 2003. The HPO staff provided an overview of the current status of the program, and some of the HIAPER integrated project team (IPT) subgroup leaders gave brief presentations on the work being done to develop infrastructure systems for the GV. The meeting was also a venue to answer questions from the community regarding HIAPER.

November 4-6, 2002
Boulder, Colorado

The NSF Community Workshop on Instrumentation for HIAPER was held at NCAR from 4-6 November, 2002. Almost 200 representatives from universities, government laboratories, and private industry participated in this event and took part in discussions of the HIAPER platform, its proposed configuration for research, and environmental measurement priorities for this new aircraft.

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May 24-26, 1999
Boulder, Colorado

The HIAPER Community Workshop was held at NCAR from 24-26 May, 1999. Workshop participants worked to develop a consensus view regarding aircraft capabilities and aircraft modifications and made an initial determination regarding primary instrumentation requirements, as well as aircraft missions scenarios.

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