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Old 8th Jun 2009, 00:18
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ComputerCynthia
 
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hurricane hunters

Quoting: Gergely Varju
It is quite different to fly above the storms, and measure the pressure in the eye,
I think that impression of hurricane hunters should be set right. It's incorrect to think the planes in the hurricane hunter fleet merrily "go over" the storms of a full hurricane. The planes are limited by physics like any other, even if they might have more power for their weight and so on. They're not trying to avoid the "bad" weather. They go in low to study it. But if you want an account of why only hurricane hunters fly into storms. Forgive me if it's been seen before.
Hunting Hugo : Weather Underground (an account of flying into Hugo)
As Seen It All said, it's not a mission where they go out to take crazy risks. It really is a mission for those pilots and they're not going to go out there to risk the plane or the people anymore than a commercial pilot would like to. (but they will get into close scrapes as per the account above.)
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