Fri, 05 Dec 2003 16:00:00 EST
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The Wright Brothers relied on information from the Weather Bureau Office in Kitty Hawk, NC, to plan and successfully execute their first flight back in 1903. The U.S. Weather Bureau issued its first aviation weather forecast in December 1918, for the Aerial Mail Service route from New York to Chicago. Read more about Congress passing the Air Commerce Act in 1926 and how today's NWS issues almost 2,500 aviation weather forecasts for 537 airports around the Nation every day helping mitigate air traffic delays and reduce weather-related aviation accidents.
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The National Weather Service and Aviation: Working Together Since the First Flight
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