Why a high-altitude NASA aircraft was recently flying over B.C. and the rise of firenadoes

Why a high-altitude NASA aircraft was recently flying over B.C. and the rise of firenadoes

A flight tracker recently uncovered that a NASA aircraft was flying in B.C. earlier this week, and we wanted to figure out why. Dr. David Peterson is the principal investigator for the NASA INSPYRE project, and we had a one-on-one to discuss the B.C. portion of the mission. Expanding that INSPYRE moniker gets us “INjected Smoke and PYRocumulonimbus Experiment,” and the reason the NASA aircraft was in B.C. was due to the prevalence of wildfires i…