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First Weatherbird appearance, February 11, 1901, drawn by Harry B. Martin. The Weatherbird is a cartoon character and a single-panel comic.It is printed on the front of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and has been in the paper continuously since 1901, making it the longest-running American newspaper cartoon and a mascot of the newspaper.
The WC-130J Weatherbird is the current weather data collection platform for the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron. Only one WC-130 has been lost during operational missions, H-model 65-0965, on 12 October 1974, flying in Typhoon Bess northeast of The Philippines. A former weather recon aircraft, H-model 65-0968, was lost on 2 May 2018 while ...
"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 ...
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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 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"
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]
Martin's first Weatherbird, February 11, 1901 Harry B. "Dickie" Martin (26 May 1873– 15 April 1959 [ 1 ] ) was an American cartoonist and golf writer, one of the founding members of the Professional Golfers' Association of America (PGA).