Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-22

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Boiling Field an upper-ai
u weather station which
ranks among the country'S best.
It is another outpost in the war
between the aviator and the ele.
mentS, upon the outcome or
which depends the future safety
of flying.
functioning as an airway unit on
the Atlantic Coastal airway, was
established primarily as an Off
the-line station for the trans
continental line from New York to
San Francisco. 1t is one OF 40
new upper-air stations and ITO
additional airways 'weather-re-
porting stations which have been
set up this Summer by the Fed
eral Government.
The station is equipped to
handle every phase of aviation
weather service. Established UNI
der direction of w. r. Gregg,
chief or the theological division
of the Weather Bureau, 1t Will
function as a part of the Nation
wide system of upper-air stations.
Day and Night Service.
Four metecrologists have been
detailed to duty by the Weather
Bureau at the Boiling Field sta
ton, under direct supervision OF
Paul A. Miller. meteorologist in
charge, and 24-hour service will
be maintained. Not only will the
station participate in the newly
created Weather Bureau three
hour" aviation forecast system,
but up-to-the-minute weather in
formation will be available at any
hour of the day and night for all
aviators, governmental or civilian.
The stations telephone number
is Atlantic 1893 and, it Is stated
by Eugene M. Barto, assistant
aerologist at the Weather Bureau,
pilots are invited to call there at
any time for information regard
ing flying conditions.
The station is connected to the
central Office of the Weather
Bureau, to the anyways communi-
cation station in the headquarters
of the Bureau of Lighthouses and
to the Naval Air Station, Anacos-
tia, by local teletype apparatus.
All airports in the vicinity Of the
National Capital may make con-
nection with this teletype circuit
and so receive directly all reports
sent out by the station.
The local station will function
as unit in the secondary net sys-
tenn of reports established by the
Weather Bureau July l. BY means
of this system weather reports are
collected at three major airways
weather control stations at Cleve-
land, Omaha and Salt Lake City.
"Three- Hour" System Scheduled.
Reports will be received at these
control stations every three hours
from numbers of stations located
rs to $50 miles on either side of
the transcontinental airWay. From
these reports resume of condi-
tions within the broad band along
of all pilots flying the line.
The Boiling Field station, to-
gether with other stations in the
secondary network, will compile a
statement of weather conditions
affecting flying every three hours
at 20 minutes before the hour.
The statement will be sent to
Cleveland by commercial tele-
graph on a preferred service
equipment which guarantees de-
livery within a period of from two
to six minutes after the statement
is filed. This information, when
received at Cleveland, will be used
in the compilation of general and
local aviation weather forecasts,
which will be broadcast by radio
and telegraphed to all airways
weather stations on the hour.
Not only will the Boiling Field
station function in this manner
as unit in the secondary network
of the transcontinental system,
but it also will be operated as an
airways control weather station
on the New York-Atlanta airway.
In this capacity the local station
will act as the central station for
it's own network Of secondary sta
tions.
Local Weather Network.