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The Weatherbird inspired the name of John Hartford's "Weatherbird Reel". [11] [12]Weatherbird brand shoes for children, using pictures of the Weatherbird in advertising, were offered starting in 1901 by the St. Louis-based Peters Shoe Company, later part of International Shoe which continued to base the brand's image on the Weatherbird until 1932 [13] (the brand itself continued at least ...
Weatherbird is a cartoon character and strip in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Weatherbird may also refer to: "Weather Bird", a composition by Joe Oliver; Lockheed WC-130 "Weatherbird", a weather reconnaissance plane; Howard McNeil (1920–2010), American meteorologist known as the "Old Weatherbird"
The 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 version of the C-130 Hercules transport configured with specialized weather instrumentation including a dropsonde deployment/receiver system and crewed by a meteorologist for penetration of tropical cyclones and winter storms to obtain ...
In addition to Weatherbird, International Shoe Company made Red Goose shoes, and in 1922 the company added Poll Parrot, named for Paul Parrot, who had a parrot in his shoe store [citation needed]. [5] The Hannibal, Missouri, plant, that started in 1898 with a million pairs a year by 1908, made Poll Parrot and Star shoes. [6]
The WC-135 Constant Phoenix is a special-purpose aircraft derived from the Boeing C-135 Stratolifter and used by the United States Air Force.Its mission is to collect samples from the atmosphere for the purpose of detecting and identifying nuclear explosions.
"Weatherbird" is the oldest continuously published cartoon in the United States. Created by Harry B. Martin , who drew it through 1903, it has since been drawn by Oscar Chopin (1903–1910); S. Carlisle Martin (1910–1932); Amadee Wohlschlaeger (1932–1981); Albert Schweitzer, the first one to draw the Weatherbird in color (1981–1986); and ...
A WC-130 Weatherbird hurricane hunter. Weather reconnaissance is the acquisition of weather data used for research and planning. Typically the term reconnaissance refers to observing weather from the air, as opposed to the ground.
The WP-3Ds are equipped with three weather radars, C band radar in the nose and on the lower fuselage, and an X-band radar in the aircraft's tail. They are also equipped with the ability to deploy dropsondes into storm systems, and have onboard temperature sensors, and other meteorological equipment.