Airplanes don’t typically come to mind when people think of ocean science. But for 25 years, beginning in 1945, WHOI maintained five planes for research. Read more about this former military plane and the man who transformed it into a flying oceanographic research machine in Oceanus magazine.
(Photo courtesy of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Archives)
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