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How the Jumbo Outbreak of 1974 helped lead to safer air travel


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  • Location: Camborne
  • Location: Camborne

Tornadoes, microbursts, and silver linings

 

It takes a sharp eye to find something positive in the wreckage of the worst swarm of U.S. tornadoes on record. Ted Fujita had just such an eye, and millions of Americans are safer in the air because of it.

 

http://www2.ucar.edu/atmosnews/features/11336/tornadoes-microbursts-and-silver-linings

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  • Location: just south of Doncaster, Sth Yorks
  • Location: just south of Doncaster, Sth Yorks

Interesting to read that,  Fujitas' work is largely responsible for the system in operation in the Sates which ATC use to stop all aircraft movements in and out of airports when certain criteria from doppler radar reaches a certain value.

A DC 10 at, I think, Chicago, is perhaps the last major accident due to downdrafts, before everyone in th the US accepted his guidelines. 

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