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Thunderstorm Project

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

K. B. Patrick
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The thunderstorm was a hazard which had still not been investigated at the end of the war, a hazard that had caused many serious aircraft accidents. No longer could the old admonition to stay out of thunderstorms be strictly followed by commercial or military pilots, whose flights could not be restricted to fair weather so as to avoid the severe turbulence occurring inside most thunderstorms.

This led to the ‘Thunderstorm Project’ in the USA in 1946-47 in Florida and Ohio'. Since the hazardous features of a thunderstorm are associated with individual cells, it is important for an understanding of the storm as it affects flight operations, to be aware of the nature of these features and their variation with stages of cell development.

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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 72 , Issue 693 , September 1968 , pp. 748 - 754
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1968 

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