IMPROVEMENT SOUGHT
WEATHER INFORMATION (9 a.m.) SYDNEY, Jan. 29. Shortages of staff and equipment are preventing Australian airmen from getting an improved weather service, according to the acting divisional meteorologist. He said that though steps were being taken to overcome the shortage of staff and equipment, increased facilities were needed for more frequent upper air soundings. Theife were carried out by means of small radio transmitters attached to balloons. These should be sent aloft twice daily, but 'the cost and lack of supplies made this impossible. Equipment for determining upper air wind direction by radar had not been available since the end of the war, but efforts were being made to procure it. Airline pilots have claimed that the weather information service to pilots had been allowed to deteriorate since the war.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22241, 29 January 1947, Page 6
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132IMPROVEMENT SOUGHT Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22241, 29 January 1947, Page 6
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