军事空运司令部气象局已开始使用卫星云图来跟踪西太平洋上的台风,而不再使用飞机来监视了。 由于国防部预算缩减,因而空军气象局不能再用飞机来监视西太平洋的气象。原设于关岛安德森空军基地的空军第54气象侦察中队已于1987年9月被撤销。这个中队的WC-130型飞机的最后一次飞行是在1987年8月15日,对发生在菲律宾海上名为“加莱”的台风进行侦察,从而结束了25年来使用WC-130型飞机对西太平洋的 Military Air Command The Bureau of Meteorology has begun to use satellite imagery to track typhoons in the western Pacific without being monitored by aircraft. Due to the reduced budget of the Department of Defense, the Air Meteorological Bureau can no longer use aircraft to monitor the weather in the western Pacific. The 54th Air Force Reconnaissance Squadron, formerly based at Anderson AFB, Guam, was withdrawn in September 1987. The last flight of the squadron’s WC-130 aircraft was on August 15, 1987, and a reconnaissance of a typhoon called “Calais” at sea off the Philippine Sea ended the 25-year period of use of the WC-130 aircraft to the west Pacific