You probably won't be interested in this but, when I was on technical training at RAAF Forest Hill (Wagga Wagga, NSW) back in the 1950s, a Lockheed Electra was carrying out some of the first flight tests on the Aussie DME system from our airfield.
Rainmaking (cloud seeding) was also being instigated by the CSIRO and it was very successful - although there was already plenty of rain in NSW at the time! I got caught in a cyclone and two separate floods...
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