Airborne Laboratory Presented to Research Community / New
Horizons for Earth System Science / DFG Priority Programme Broadens University
Research Capacities
The airborne research platform “High Altitude and Long Range
Research Aircraft” (HALO), co-funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
(DFG, German Research Foundation), is ready for takeoff. The German Federal
Minister of Research, Professor Annette Schavan, presented the research
platform to the science community in Oberpfaffenhofen on Monday, 20 August
2012. Since 2007, the DFG has provided approximately 15 million euros in
funding to the project through its Priority Programme “Atmospheric and Earth
System Research with the High Altitude and Long Range Research Aircraft”.