The sixth tropical system of the season began on the 31st of August and ended on the 5th of September as the second hurricane of the 2007 Atlantic Hurricane Season and the second category 5 hurricane of the season. Felix made landfall along the Miskito Coast of Central America as a category 5 hurricane making 2007 the first season on record in which two category 5 hurricanes made landfall (as category 5 storms) in the Atlantic Basin. Dean was the first storm to do so only two weeks earlier and just a little farther north along the Costa Maya coastline of the Yucatan.

The Hurricane Hunters deployed to the Caribbean on the 30th of August and began flying TD #6 the next day. It took TD #6 only a little over 24 hours from the time it was designated a depression with 35mph winds and a surface pressure of 1008mb to become a hurricane with 75 mph winds and a pressure 993mb. Less than 24 hours after that, it became the second category 5 hurricane of the season with maximum winds of 165 mph and a minimum pressure 929mb. .

An early morning flight on Monday September 3rd. Felix, now a category 5 hurricane presents an incredibly well defined eye about 10 miles across.

After a rather bumpy ride through the eyewall, we take pressure readings and orbit to take a look at the eye of this powerful storm.

It's a breath taking view in a nearly perfect eye. The stadium effect was visible even at 2 in the morning as the moon was rising over the top of the hurricane and the frequent lightning was illuminating the eyewall all around us.