QUESTION:
What do you do about turbulance?

ANSWER from Terry Rager, Project Pilot, KAO, on October 12, 1995:
To tell the truth, we try to avoid it as much as possible. The telescope
is floating on an air bearing and stays very stable through its own gyro
package. I'm sure you saw this on the broadcasts from the airplane. So
most normal turbulence doesn't affect the astronomers' data all that much.
To stay out of turbulence we study the weather patterns where we plan to
fly and listen to other aircraft that have just been where we are going.
Then we can anticipate any bad weather. However, sometimes you just have
to fly through it and we must cage the telescope and have the scientists
sit down until it is safe to let them walk around again. 

Terry Rager, Project Pilot, KAO