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They're burning it, blowing it, blasting it with sickening sound.  A great experimental war is being waged on the enemy fog.

A remarkable action picture of a fog-dispersal system at the instant of ignition. The smoke soon disappears.

UNCLE SAM has declared war on fog.  For the next five years, one million dollars a year will be spent by the Army, Navy and CAA in a great combined operation to lick this greatest of flying hazards.

The laboratory battlefield has been set up in an ideal spot - a former Naval air station at Arcata, Calif., along the Oregon border - a place on a steep hill near the ocean in the foggiest section of the United States. 

Every major type of fog-dispersal technique known is now being set up, among them two revolutionary newcomers, a method of atomizing fuel by high pressure rather than heat, and a sonic method whereby fog is changed to rain by high-frequency sound-wave bombardment.

Fog dispersal is needed and it will continue to be needed.  Present instrument landing techniques will bring a blind plane safely down to within 50 feet of the ground, but from then on the pilot wants to see what he's doing.  Even when fully automatic landing become possible, the physical and psychological benefits of having the pilot able to see, will still make

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