In desperate and imaginative efforts to clear fog from airports, highways and other critical areas, meteorologists have used giant fans, rotating racks strung with nylon strands and chemicals dropped from planes or spewed up ward from strange machines on the ground. Now the U.S. Air Force thinks that it has found a practical new weap on in the continuing fight against fog: the helicopter.
During research into the meteorology of fogs, scientists at the Air Force Cam bridge Research Laboratories in Bed ford, Mass., concluded that there might be a simple way to disperse mists that develop when moist air...
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