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I THINK Prof. McAdie's view of the vital importance of fog in aviation will command general assent, and I am not acquainted with anything contrary to his suggestion that fog prevented the German airships finding their objective on the occasion in question. This, however, does not explain why the airships drifted so far south and failed to return to their bases. The strong northerly winds at great heights, of which the ordinary weather maps of surface conditions gave no definite indication, do furnish a reasonable explanation of this fact.
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GOLD, E. [Letters to the Editor]. Nature 127, 198 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/127198b0
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