26th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences
including the 8th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations (ATIO) Conference
14 - 19 September 2008, Anchorage, Alaska, USA
Paper ICAS2008-P6.4

FLIGHT EVALUATION OF A COMPACT AIRBORNE TRACE GAS ANALYSIS SENSOR PROOF-OF-CONCEPT

R. Srinivasan, D. Marcotte, J. Tunney*, M. Post*, D. Segall**
FRL, Institute for Aerospace Research, Canada; *ICPET, NRC, Canada; **The Armstrong Monitoring Corp., Canada

Keywords: flight evaluation, trace gas analysis

NRC Canada and AMC undertook the development of a compact, trace gas conductometric sensor, for UAV applications. A composite film was created and integrated into a compact sensor package. The sensor was evaluated for CO2 sensitivity, in the NRC Twin Otter aircraft in flight, the results of which are presented.

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