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Dr. Youssef Wehbe is a Non-Resident Scholar with the Climate and Water Program at the Middle East Institute. His areas of expertise include water resource management, coupled land-atmosphere modeling, cloud microphysics, and weather modification technology. His ongoing research addresses next-generation water resource monitoring by integrating satellite and radar remote sensing, hydro-meteorological modeling, and relevant applications of AI/machine learning tools.
While we rarely cover serving military aircraft here at Vintage Aviation News, there are occasional exceptions to this rule. Indeed, how could we resist featuring one of NASA's most fascinating aircraft, the Lockheed ER-2 Dragon Lady, when one of them just happened to visit our home field near Atlanta, Georgia? NASA employs two examples of the ER-2, a variant of the legendary U-2 spy plane, in upper atmosphere research programs. Last week, ER-2 NASA 806 (formerly TR-1A 80-1063 of the US Air Force) landed at Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Marietta, Georgia. This visit inspired us to look into the aircraft's mission and, of course, to capture a few images of this magnificent beast in flight!
Dr. Youssef Wehbe is a Non-Resident Scholar with the Climate and Water Program at the Middle East Institute. His areas of expertise include water resource management, coupled land-atmosphere modeling, cloud microphysics, and weather modification technology. His ongoing research addresses next-generation water resource monitoring by integrating satellite and radar remote sensing, hydro-meteorological modeling, and relevant applications of AI/machine learning tools.