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Australia Nov and Dec 2002
Photo 1. Perth, Australia November 2002 with the Cresco aircraft prior to flights in the Kalgoorlie area. From left: Yuri Bolotin, Yuri Smoller, Tol Moflin, Andy Gabell, Arkady Shabanov and Andre Golovin.
Photo 2. The GT-1A s/n 1 installed in the Cresco ready for first flights, Nov 2002.
Photo 3. Sam Jurist and Yuri Smoller with their baby. They didn't think the gravimeter would fit into such a small aircraft after all the tests in the big Antonov 30 in Moscow. They had no idea at this time just how small a Robinson helicopter would turn out to be!
Photo 4. Early hours and anxious moments at the GPS base station site.
Photo 5. What a GPS receiver sees in Australia (it could be almost anywhere on the continent).
Photo 6. Yuri Bolotin testing the strong horizontal gravity anomaly at the GPS base station site.
Photo 7. Sam, Helen and Vladimir keeping the GPS antenna company.
Photo 8. That's either an Australian wave, or it means we only have 5 GPS satellites in view.
Photo 9. A big hole in Kalgoorlie and proof that gravity works: without gravity, those rocks wouldn't be there, and neither would the photographer.
Photo 10. Kalgoorlie, Western Australia.
Photo 11. Anxious moments waiting to see if we really did measure gravity. As it turned out, the airborne data matched the upward continued ground data to within 0.45 mGals, far better than expected considering the tough flying conditions.
Photo 12. A little break in Kalgoorlie for Vladimir, Yuri, Sam and Andre.
Photo 13. Yuri Bolotin processing data from one of the flights. Yuri just happens to be Russia's top yachtsman in the 10-m class, and enjoys skiing in Austria or Italy when he's not sailing.
Photo 14. Back in civilization: Andre and Yuri discover an alternate mode of transport.
Photo 15. Yuri and Sam with new mascot. Perth 2002.
Photo 16. Yuri Smoller, Arkady Shabanov not to be outdone. Who looks more worried, Arkady or the wombat?
Photo 17. Helen kindly played hostess to 6 guests for 6 weeks, and then had the pleasant task of processing all the data afterwards!
Photo 18. Andy, Dan and Arkady either repairing Dan's glass case or working on the gravimeter during installation in the Robinson helicopter, Perth Dec 2002.
Photo 19. Yuri Smoller making final checks of the gravimeter prior to take-off in the early hours of Dec 21, 2002.
Photo 20. Dan Olson and Yuri Smoller wait for the helicopter to return from its first flight with the GT-1A, Perth, Dec 2002.
Photo 21. Australians don't even blink an eye when a bush fire threatens the airport.
Photo 22. Too early to be setting up a GPS base station. Kalgoorlie 2002.
Photo 23. It's a long haul from Perth to Kalgoorlie and back, especially when this is your fourth trip in 5 weeks! (Despite what Australians believe, you could fit Australia twice inside of Russia with room to spare, so Australia really isn't as big as they think, but don't tell them that).
Photo 24. Yuri Smoller waiting for the gravimeter to warm up prior to road tests in the Toyota - Kalgoorlie 2002. Andy Gabell's driving was reported diplomatically by one passenger as being "Fast and bumpy". Valentin Ilyin, Managing Director of Gravimetric Technologies, claimed that "CMG tried to break the gravimeter", but was pleased to see that we couldn't accomplish our goal.
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