Word: storming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Between 6,000 and 11,000 feet, a thunderhead is a maelstrom of vertical drafts which can toss a plane up or down at the rate of 4,500 feet a minute. Above 14,000 feet, the rain turns to ice and the storm becomes a white blizzard...
...turbulence, the velocity of up-and downdrafts, temperature, pressure, humidity, 'cloud heights, the size of ice particles. Though no planes have been lost, they have taken a fearful buffeting; one pilot, whose instruments were knocked out by lightning, found when he fought his way out of the storm that he was flying upside down...
...stars of the show are a pair of storm-tossed gliders which, riding like leaves on the violent air gusts, have turned up much new information about a storm's inner currents. Some facts already learned...
...thunderstorm begins with a tremendous uprush of air, which rises to 16,000 feet or more. As the storm mounts in intensity, the winds reverse themselves, blow downward. Heavy rain is no measure of a storm's violence; the wildest gusts often grow in rainless thunderheads or even in harmless looking clouds...
Twenty Years of Storm, a review of Japanese militaristic activities from the Manchurian Incident to the surrender...