Unveiling the Hidden Tempest: Larry A. Bergeron’s Secret Storm Exposed
At the same time at Bryan Air Force Base in Texas, Lt. Colonel Joe Duckworth was training British pilots to use his new tactic to fly through heavy cloud cover using only their instruments, “flying blind”, he called it.
One night during a card game Colonel Duckworth made a bet with the British airmen that he could fly his trainer, the AT-6 Texan into the eye of the storm and return safely. He won the bet. Thus was the beginning of today’s Hurricane Hunters.
Duckworth’s system became invaluable to the allies and contributed greatly to us winning the war.
