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20th July 2013, 10:29 PM
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NASA 747SP in Christchurch.
Pulled from NASA's media center.
SOFIA Southern Deployment Fact Sheet NASA’s airborne observatory, SOFIA, is scheduled to make 9 science flights during its three-week deployment to Christchurch, New Zealand (July 12-Aug. 2, 2013). SOFIA will deploy with approximately 60 staff members (ground and flight crew, mission operations staff, science team). The observatory will depart the Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility at Palmdale, Calif., on July 12 and fly to Honolulu for a flight crew change, then on to Christchurch, New Zealand. During SOFIA’s Southern Deployment, the observatory will exclusively use the German REceiver for Astronomy at Terahertz Frequencies (GREAT), a dual channel, infrared heterodyne spectrometer. GREAT was developed by a consortium of German science institutions, led by Rolf Guesten and Stefan Heyminck from the Max- Planck-Institute for Radio Astronomy, Bonn, Germany. GREAT works like a very high frequency radio receiver detecting light waves rather than light particles. Observations are made between 60 and 200 microns in three different frequencies.
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Aircraft flown on: Civil: 717-200 737-200/400/700/800, 747-200/400, 767-200/300, A320, A321, A330-200, E-195 Military: MV-22B, KC-30A, KC-10A, C-17A, C-27J, S-70A-1, C-2B, PC-21. 
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#2
20th July 2013, 11:50 PM
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21st July 2013, 01:37 AM
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You Christchurch spotters are lucky, would love to see an SP in MEL.
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Flown: AIB: 320 (200), 321 (200), 330 (200,300), 340 (200), 380 (800) ATR: 72 (500) BOE: 717 (200), 737 (300,400,700,800), 747 (400), 767 (300), 777 (300), 787 (8,9) DHC: DH3, DH4 EMB: E70, E90 FKR: F100 SWR: SW4
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#4
21st July 2013, 06:52 PM
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Saw it this morning but couldn't get any photos.
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#5
22nd July 2013, 01:36 AM
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It is a 1977 built an ex Pan Am 747SP then later operated by United. Expected to be visiting CHC during winter for the next 20 years.
Another story on its deployment: http://www.stuff.co.nz/science/89209...ore-Chch-skies
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#6
22nd July 2013, 06:51 PM
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I love how the guy in the picture looks like an older version of 'Doc' in Back To The Future !
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Flight Stats A.net Photos Flown: Boeing, Airbus, Douglas, Bombardier, De Havilland Canada, Ilyushin, Yakovlev, Tupolev, Shorts, ATR, McDonnell Douglas, Fokker, Embraer, British Aerospace, Antonov.
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14th June 2015, 10:24 AM
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