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Flying Through a Hurricane Eye Wall
Great footage of reconnaissance of/in Hurricane Irene. (www.liveleak.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
no thanks. Not my type of fun flying.
I'll pass! My baron and I would get chewed up and spit out!
Reminds me of busting super bad wx between MEM and LIT on DAL one night. Definitely wouldn't want to do it again.LOL
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Actually, this is footage from Hurricate Emily in 2005. It's from the 2007 IMAX movie StormChasers. A great flick for an IMAX, lots of aerial footage. Don't know why it's resurfaced now, or labeled Irene?.
It still amazes me that the NOAA and the AF Reserve fly into hurricanes. Being from near Keesler AFB, I have heard stories of flights into storms, including one that ended with a C-130 limping back to Florida with multiple engine failures due to hail damage to the oil coolers.
I think that hurricanes are quite different from thunderstorms - I don't think that that the vertical development is the same. I am not saying that there is no hail in a hurricane, but I've never heard of it, and I think that the turbulence in a hurricane is more related to straight line winds, not updrafts and downdrafts (which would be my chief concern if I were flying through a thunderstorm). Nevertheless, I am not a meteorologist, so there is a decent chance that I am not giving an accurate representation. It would be good of a meteorologist could come along and clarify.
Actually a hurricane is a large formation of intense thunderstorms centered on an extreme low pressure system. Hurricanes spawn tornadoes, hail, and all the other goodies that thunderstorms have.
David is correct here below. As you watch the next one on radar, you will see that it is affecting and causing weather 3-500 miles out ahead of it.