BIGGEST EXPERIMENTS YET IN RAINMAKING
Received Thursday, 7 p.m. MELBOURNE, July 3, Rainmaking experiments described as the greatest in history, will he made shortly by the Council of Scien- . . tific and - Industrial Rerearch in conjunction with the R.A.A.F, Instead of dry ice ilsed in the February. experiments, 700 gallons of a liquid suhstitute will he carried hy a specially fitted Dakota. This will he . sprayed on selected clouds and the results will be checked by radar sets in the plane picking up £ 4 rain echops" in the cloud. The results will he further recorded hy photographers in other planes aiid obserVers on the groundi
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Chronicle (Levin), 4 July 1947, Page 5
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