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January 26, 2018 | Volume 42, Number 4
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Multinational symposium demonstrates partnership capabilities by Crystal Young 86th Airlift Wing Public Affairs Members of the 10th Expeditionary Aeromedical Evacuation Flight, assigned to Ramstein’s 313th Expeditionary Operations Support Squadron, demonstrated their capabilities Jan. 17 at U.S. Air Forces in Europe’s first multinational aeromedical evacuation symposium. According to organizers, the symposium brought partner and allied nations together to share tactics, techniques and procedures to enhance aeromedical evacuation interoperability throughout the area of responsibility. The 10th EAEF transports patients with all levels of care needs across Europe, Northern Africa and the Middle East to Ramstein Air Base, where they are then transferred to either Landstuhl Regional Medical Center or the United States depending See SYMPOSIUM, Page 2
Senior Airman Shelby Lucas, 10th Expeditionary Aeromedical Evacuation flight critical care transport team respiratory therapist, explains the role of a critical care air transport team to Partnership Flight Symposium participants Jan. 17 on Ramstein Air Base. The CCATT’s mission is unique, as it’s staffed to operate an intensive care unit in an aircraft during flight. Photo by Tech. Sgt. Rachelle Coleman
NASA’s flying laboratory comes to Ramstein Story and photo by Airman 1st Class Hamilton 86th Airlift Wing Public Affairs The National Aeronautics and Space Administration along with the German Aerospace Center, or DLR, conducting biofuel testing over the skies of Germany this month. Temporarily stationed at Ramstein, NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center’s DC-8 jetliner was accompanied by the DLR’s Advanced Technology Research Aircraft, an A320, to study the effect of fuel composition on contrail formation. “Contrails are ice clouds that form in the exhaust of aircraft flying at higher altitudes where the tem-
peratures are very cold,” said Bruce Anderson, aerospace technologist, Science Mission Directorate at NASA Langley Research Center. “The ice particles condense on soot that comes out of engines.” The contrails generated by aircraft are a concern to the environment because they trap heat; they make the surface of the earth warmer at night, said Anderson. “We’ve learned by burning cleaner fuels, we can reduce the cover of the extensive clouds that form behind aircraft,” Anderson said. “The composition of fuel kind of regulates the amount of soot particles that form.” See LABORATORY, Page 3
Maintainers for the German Aerospace Center prepare the Advanced Technology Research Aircraft Airbus A320, on Ramstein Air Base for a day of bio-fuel testing. The A320 is the latest and largest addition to the DLR’s research fleet.