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U. S. Cruiser “San Diego”
The Aviator and the
Weather Bureau
BY
FORD A. CARPENTER, LL.D.
Meteorologist
ILLUSTRATED WITH PHOTOGRAPHS AND CHARTS
BY THE AUTHOR AND OTHERS
PUBLISHED BY THE
SAN DIEGO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
1917
Published by permission
Dated August 25, 1916
Second edition, 5,000 copies
J. Horace McFarland Company
Mt. Pleasant Press
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
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Introductory Note
This is a brief but general account of the historyof aviation as it is associated with southernCalifornia, a description of the War Departmentschool of aviation at San Diego, a syllabus ofthe course of lectures delivered there on the subjectof practical meteorology as applied to aviation, anarrative of weather-study from an airplane, and arecital of subsequent active coöperation between theaviators and the U. S. Weather Bureau.A
A It may be remembered that the weather service of the United Statesoriginated with the Signal Corps of the Army and that the WeatherBureau was created from it by Act of Congress, June, 1891, and made abureau of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. As a former member ofthe Signal Corps the writer enjoyed the renewal of old friendships amongthe officers at the Aviation School. Col. W. A. Glassford, Signal Corps,U. S. Army, Commandant of the War Department Aviation School atSan Diego, kindly read the manuscript of the following pages and thewriter gratefully acknowledges his valuable suggestions.
Much of the material in the following pages wasobtained by the writer while detailed as Lecturer inMeteorology to the Signal Corps, War DepartmentAviation School at San Diego, in 1915–1916, alsowhen detailed in the same official capacity tothe U. S. Army Military Training Encampment,Monterey, 1916; and at the summer sessions of theUniversity of California during 1914–1916.
Los Angeles, Cal.,
February, 1917.
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