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One of NASA’s two ER-2 Earth resources aircraft soars over the crowd during the 2009 Air Force Material Command’s Freedom’s Call Tattoo on June 26 at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio. (Photo courtesy Tim Gaffney / AviationDayton.com)
One of NASA's ER-2 high-flying Earth resources aircraft is currently flying a series of environmental science missions over the northern and eastern United States. The ER-2 flights over the next month will be staged out of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, where it arrived June 24.