RAAF Meteorological Service
Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Weather Factor in Warfare
Chapter 2: Establishing and Developing the RAAF Directorate of Met. Services (D.Met.S)
Chapter 3: Recruiting and Training of Personnel
Chapter 4: Meteorology in Aviation
The RAAF Meteorological Flight
Hazards Galore
Chapter 5: The Met. Retreating
Chapter 6: The Met. Advancing
Chapter 7: The Met With the Army and the Navy
Chapter 8: Divisional Offices of the Bureau of Meteorology During the War
Chapter 9: Research and Instrumental Development
Chapter 10: The End, Aftermath, and Beyond
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Appendix 3
Appendix 4
References
Index
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The RAAF Meteorological Flight (continued)
Another famous RAAF pilot associated with meteorological flights was Air-Vice Marshal Brian Eaton, CB, CBE, DSO, and Bar, DFC, American Silver Star, who told me that 'some characters were known to carry out these flights in dinner jackets on returning late from dining-in nights at Point Cook'.[34]Throughout the war, meteorological flights were often conducted by mutual arrangement with the CO of a unit. As well, many aircrew frequently took the trouble to make weather observations on a flight, and to deliver these to the meteorological section on return to base.
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