NOAA HURRICANE HUNTER PILOT CAPTURES KATRINA AT HER MEANEST
Sept. 1, 2005 - NOAA hurricane hunter WP-3D Orion and Gulfstream IV aircraft conducted ten long flights into and around the eye of Hurricane Katrina. Lt. Mike Silah, a P-3 pilot, got to see Hurricane Katrina up close and personal, especially when she was an extremely dangerous Category Five storm in the Gulf of Mexico. The day before the powerful and destructive storm made landfall on the USA Gulf Coast, Silah snapped a series of images capturing the eyewall of Katrina.
Silah is a NOAA Corps officer based at the NOAA Aircraft Operations Center in Tampa, Fla.
View the pics at
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2005/s2496.htm