Swift As the Moon’s Shadow: Special Solar Eclipse Flight Planned for July 2019

At first glance, it doesn’t seem like anything particularly special: For the next total eclipse of the sun, set for July of next year, an aircraft will fly into the shadow of the moon. This has been done before on many other occasions, with the primary purpose usually to fly above any potential cloud cover that might otherwise obscure a view of the eclipse.  In fact, the first attempt to see a solar eclipse from an airplane took place just over a century ago, on June 8, 1918. Scientific American later noted that while the flight was “not undertaken with any serious scientific objective in view, it was at least demonstrated that we may eventually look to the aviator for work of value in connection with eclipses.”  Sometimes, an aircraft has traveled along the path of the shadow in order to try to extend the length of totality by perhaps a minute or two. [In 1925, Observers Lined Manhattan to Measure a Total Solar Eclipse] But this particular eclipse flight is going to attempt to do much better than that.  At the total solar eclipse on July 2, 2019, a jet aircraft will race along the path of totality and… Read full this story

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