Recollections of Service in the Bureau and RAAF
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Recollections—Mascot and Rose Bay—the Early Years
Sojourn in the Far East 1942
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Some time after World War II began in September 1939, that part of the Empire Air Service between Rose Bay and Singapore using Qantas flying boats was replaced by RAAF Catalinas between Perth and Colombo. Mr J. 'Doc' Hogan who had been on my 1937 course, and who was at that time FlLt Hogan RAAF, was posted to take charge of the meteorological arrangements for this long Catalina Empire link.
My generation of meteorologists was recruited primarily to enable the Commonwealth Meteorological Service to meet the requirements of aeroplanes and of the defence services as well, and to man the new meteorological units at aerodromes. Now, more than half a century later, the march of technology in aeroplanes, communications, and meteorological practice, but mainly in communications, has rendered airport meteorological units redundant, at least for the time being.
'Our little systems have their day, they have their day and cease to be' (Tennyson, In Memorium)
People in Bright Sparcs - Hannay, Alexander Keith (Keith); Hogan, John (Doc)
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