one of the mission controllers is bob jocose and from montana university who has dedicated his life to understanding wild fire smoke. this plane is the world supposed to beds fly laboratory the summary of the flight plan for today is to head to the shirt in fires southern arizona. there the team members are planning to collect fresh smoke samples for their research with the help of pioneering prototypes. you have to bring the lab to the fire to the smoke to better understand the thousands of chemicals that are emitted fresh smoke and then how those changed as the. smoke evolves in the atmosphere. when the plane reaches the smoke plume we get strong turbulence. caused by the hot air rising from the far. when we're flying really big fires and you have to make when you 1st like that it can feel like you're on a roller coaster which is fine but you don't want to be on a roller coaster for 8 hours it's kind of a high intensity type of work but it's also awesome being able to see the measurements that we're making in real time. the full analysis of all the new data it will take years but bob