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    • Eye to Eye with Hurricane Irene

    radar shot We actually had a week off between Tropical Storm Harvey before we began a string of five flights into Hurricane Irene in mid-August. This storm made a feignt toward the Outer Banks, and was the third hurricane of the season. Fortunately, it stayed out to sea, and threaded between Bermuda and the U.S. eastern seaboard.

    Herk in the storm We used this opportunity to fly more test flights into tropical cyclones with the J-model Hercules aircraft, from which this photo was taken of our companion aircraft, on scene to fly in support of the National Hurricane Center. It's when you see the size of the aircraft against a solitary "scud" cloud that you realize just how insignificant we are on the scale of nature's most powerful storm.

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