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Glider on world trip arrives in Ahmedabad Thursday, August 23, 2001

TIMES NEWS NETWORK
AHMEDABAD: Braving weather, overcoming bureaucratic hurdles across the Asian continent, Gerad Moss arrived in Ahmedabad on Tuesday afternoon.

Moss, who is flying across the globe to aid a joint environmental research for Brazilian and British Universities, landed in his Ximango motor glider. Apart from it being a research mission, the trip assumes significance as it's the first round-the-world trip in a motor glider.

Moss is collecting data pertaining to ozone contents in the atmosphere at specific locations along his flight route. Also Moss is using filter to analyse air at specific places. The filters would later be analysed using spectrophotometry for detecting the level of persistent organic pollutants and dioxins which are hazardous to human health.

Talking to reporters here, Moss said the data would be used by the students of various universities for data interpretation in their thesis. Also based on the results, the universities would decide on future research projects.

The Brazilian-built craft also has built-in cameras which are linked to laboratories at the Sao Paulo State University and at Cambridge University through the Inmer-Sat. The cameras telecast live images of shots taken by Moss from the craft.

Moss took off from Rio de Janeiro on June 21. In his 60 days journey, apart from turbulent weather, he has also faced detention at countries when he had to force land to save his life due to rough weather.

The Swiss-born Brazilian will take off for Muscat on Wednesday to complete the remaining part of the project named "Wings of the Wind" which covers trip across 40 countries and over 85 destinations.

News Source : Times Of India News Service [ Lightning News ]

 

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