to start flying听the Tempest UAS听over parts of Texas and Oklahoma this spring in the heart of Tornado Alley to conduct weather research.听The new 鈥渟outhern COA鈥� complements the 48,000-square-mile 鈥渘orthern COA鈥� previously granted by the FAA that covers portions of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska and Wyoming.听The northern and southern COA鈥檚 together cover an area about the size of Colorado. The Tempest is an Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) with a wingspan of more than 10 feet developed at CU-Boulder to better understand the origin and development of severe storms by flying to their edges and measuring air pressure, temperature, relative humidity and wind velocities.
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