Forecasts for Flying: Meteorology in Canada 1918-1939 by Morley Thomas (1996)

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1996 ECW Press paperback edition. Light reading wear else very good condition. Table of Contents Preface 1. Introduction 2. Meteorology and World War I Aviation 3. Meteorology and Postwar Aviation 4. The Postwar Toronto Central Office 5. Postwar Meteorology Across Canada 6. Weather Observing in the 1920s 7. Weather Forecasting in the 1920s 8. Early Airways Meteorology 9. Airship Meteorology 10. Stupart’s Last Decade: The Central Office 11. The Air Mail Weather Service 12. The Early Patterson Years 13. Forecasting for Transcontinental Aviation 14. Forecasting for Transatlantic Aviation 15. Canadian Meteorology in 1939 Notes Appendix 1 Veteran employees of the Meteorological Service who retired during the 1920s and 1930s Appendix 2 The first District Aviation Forecast Offices Appendix 3 Other Aviation Forecast Centres in 1939 and Other airports with meteorologists in 1939 Appendix 4 A) University of Toronto M.A. graduates in physics (meteorology) hired by the Meteorological Division for aviation weather forecasting B) Other graduates hired by the Meteorological Service for aviation weather forecasting Appendix 5 A) Graduates who were hired as observers for a year or more before training to become aviation weather forecasters B) Graduates hired for duties other than aviation weather forecasting Appendix 6 Public weather forecasters 1918 to 1939

• Year: 1918
• ISBN: 9781550223033
• Condition: Very Good

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