NASA Marshall engineer on the DC-8 Airborne Laboratory during NAMMA mission in 2006. DataTurbine is running on a MacMini in the equipment rack.
http://namma.nsstc.nasa.gov/
There is a good PR piece at
http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/namma.html
excerpt:
"Dr. Zipser's classroom is a milestone that demonstrates sustainable benefits derived from effective network communications with airborne platforms," Freudinger said. "As sensor Web technologies mature, the network becomes the instrument by which many students and researchers observe and learn. This really is just the beginning."