Airvan - Civil Air Patrol responds

HOUSTON—First Lt. G. Paul Roberts cleans the quartz glass portal of the airborne real-time cueing hyperspectral enhanced reconnaissance system aboard an Australian made Gippsland Aeronautics "Airvan" aircraft. His Civil Air Patrol mission here will be to detect oil spills and pollution in the affected region of Hurricane Rita. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Lance Cheung)