Weather reconnaissance is the acquisition of weather data used for research and planning. Typically the term reconnaissance refers to observing weather...

Special Reconnaissance (SR), formerly Special Operations Weather Technician or Team (SOWT), is conducted by trained Air Force personnel assigned to Special...

tankers for Tactical Air Command (TAC) and WB-50 weather reconnaissance aircraft for the Air Weather Service. These tanker and hurricane-hunter variants...

The 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, also known by its nickname, Hurricane Hunters, is a flying unit of the United States Air Force, and "the only...

54th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was to the 41st Rescue and Weather Reconnaissance Wing...

RB-57F strategic reconnaissance/weather reconnaissance aircraft. Ten RB-57As were modified for high-altitude strategic reconnaissance over non-friendly...

Lockheed WC-130 is a high-wing, medium-range aircraft used for weather reconnaissance missions by the United States Air Force. The aircraft is a modified...

weather data. In the United States, the organizations that fly these missions are the United States Air Force Reserve's 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron...

Radiosonde Rocketsonde Surface weather observation Timex Expedition WS4 Tropical cyclone observation Weather reconnaissance Weather radar Weather satellite...

The 1st Weather Reconnaissance Squadron is an inactive United States Army Air Force unit. It saw service between April 1943 and May 1945. On 21 December...

as air supremacy, global integrated intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, rapid global mobility, global strike, and command and control. The...

9th Weather Group (later 9th Weather Reconnaissance Group), 20 April 1952 – 8 July 1965 101st Weather Group (see 68th AAF Base Unit) 102d Weather Group...

Wing. In 1973, it was redesignated as the 920th Weather Reconnaissance Group flying weather reconnaissance missions with WC-130H Hercules aircraft, including...

occasionally scrambled aircraft to intercept individual B-29s conducting reconnaissance sorties over the country, to conserve supplies of fuel. In July 1945...

special reconnaissance, armored reconnaissance, amphibious reconnaissance and civil reconnaissance. Aerial reconnaissance is reconnaissance carried out...

The United States Air Force has several types of weather squadrons. List of United States Air Force squadrons "Clear skies forecasted as 7th ECWS becomes...

Electric Canberra. It was operationally assigned to the Air Weather Service for weather reconnaissance involving high-altitude atmospheric sampling and radiation...

57th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force squadron. Its last assignment was with the 9th Weather Reconnaissance Wing...

California on 15 October 1947 as the 374th Reconnaissance Squadron, an Air Weather Service weather reconnaissance squadron, assuming the personnel and Boeing...

Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron. Redesignated the 55th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron in 1954, the squadron flew weather reconnaissance missions until...

WB-29 Superfortress weather reconnaissance aircraft over North Korea in highly hazardous, almost daily strategic weather reconnaissance missions over the...

signals intelligence, electronic countermeasures, radio relay, and weather reconnaissance operations. Aircraft were commonly forward deployed to bases in...

photographic reconnaissance, electronic intelligence, and weather reconnaissance. While never seeing combat as a bomber, reconnaissance RB-47s would occasionally...

airborne assault, search and rescue, scientific research support, weather reconnaissance, aerial refueling, maritime patrol, and aerial firefighting. It...

city. Enola Gay participated in the second nuclear attack as the weather reconnaissance aircraft for the primary target of Kokura. Clouds and drifting smoke...

The squadron was redesignated the 513th Reconnaissance Squadron and activated in 1947 as a weather reconnaissance unit. Except for a brief period of inactivation...

aircraft were officially on weather reconnaissance missions and the aircraft crews as part of their normal duty also generated weather report data. The crews...

introduced in December 1965, replacing Boeing WB-50 aircraft in the weather-reconnaissance and air-sampling mission. Ten aircraft were initially converted...

Redesignated Weather Reconnaissance (VJ) squadrons. From 1952 to 1953, VJ designated "Weather" or "Weather Reconnaissance" squadron. In 1953 the two weather reconnaissance...

A dropsonde is an expendable weather reconnaissance device created by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), designed to be dropped from...