Storm detechor

[earl1937]

  Back in the "day", so to speak, we didn't have radar to assist us in and around weather systems, showing us where the thunderstorm cells were. But there was an instrument on the panel of aircraft as early produced even in the 30's and almost all of the allied aircraft had this system on their panel. What was it and how was it used?

[colmbo]

I never experienced this but have always heard an ADF will point toward lighting....one can assume where there is lightning there is convective activity.  Later on came the  Stormscope (I think) that was a graphical display of lightning around the aircraft.

[earl1937]

I never experienced this but have always heard an ADF will point toward lighting....one can assume where there is lightning there is convective activity.  Later on came the  Stormscope (I think) that was a graphical display of lightning around the aircraft.

YOu sir are correct! Have used the ADF many times as a aid, even when I had radar onboard. Its best way to see which storm is most intense. JUst tune to bottom of LF scale and it will point to one 75 miles away.

[Zoney]

Colmbo, please, the quote in your signature, where is that from?

(If you say "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" I'm likely to shoot myself)

[colmbo]

I've seen it attributed to da Vinci but don't know that for a fact.

[Mongoose]

I've seen it attributed to da Vinci but don't know that for a fact.

  I did a quick net search, and found it attributed to da Vinci, and also Henry van Dyke.  No one seems to know for sure.