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1968Varsity T1 (WJ906) retired.1968SCILLONIA campaign commences, with the Varsity aircraft dropping wind-trackingsondes to examine warm fronts approaching the UK.The SCILLONIA campaign took place over a period of three years between 1968 and1971, making use of the Varsity aircraft to test and develop early drop-sondes. The datafrom these radar-tracked wind-finding dropsondes were used in conjunction withthermodynamic observations to study frontal systems approaching SW England. Theseearly sondes were about the size of a small, narrow dustbin with two separate metalcylinders forming the transmitting antenna. In 1975 Roach and Hardman publish“Mesoscale air motions derived from wind-finding dropsonde data: the warm front andrainbands of 18 January 1971” in QJRMS, using data from SCILLONIALink (1975_Roach_Hardman.pdf)© Crown copyright 201215
1970Varsity (WF425) arrived.‘The Varsity is shown in the middle, with the Hercules in the front and Canberraat the back.’1970Watson, N.R., publishes ‘‘Sampling of rain from a Varsity Aircraft’’ in MeteorologicalMagazine, 99, 198 – 208.Link (1970_Watson.pdf)© Crown copyright 201216
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