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@FlynonymousWX
Oct 27 • 8 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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A thread of videos from today’s flight into Hurricane Melissa

In this first one we are entering from the southeast just after sunrise and the bright arc on the far northwest eye wall is the light just beginning to make it over the top from behind us.
Second pass through Hurricane Melissa entering from the southwest side. Passed NOAA in the eye wall as they headed outbound for home.

Obviously a very powerful storm but a relatively straightforward one on this flight. Much less nasty meso activity than 36 hours ago.
Third pass through Melissa. GoPro in side window as different camera looking forward shooting in ultra high res 8k. Not sure when that might get processed as the file turned out ridiculous. Barely had HD space for it and MacBook Pro promptly chocked when I tried to edit it
Fourth pass through Melissa this morning, another side view due to my hairbrained attempt to shoot 8k video out the front.
Fifth and final pass through Hurricane Melissa for our crew today. Just after noon entering from the NW corner exiting SE.
The sea surface is always interesting in the eye with waves going different directions
Another view looking down in the eye… got a nice swirl of clouds going on
Uncropped and higher res version of the first pass through Melissa yesterday morning.

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Oct 28
Hurricane Melissa still photo thread… most of these are taken with a @CanonUSApro R5 with 11mm lens but a few were taken with my iPhone. If you are media and want to use them please go look on DVIDs. Image
A lot of these are gonna look similar… I took 500 something pics in the eye and I just picked out a few Image
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This afternoon there were a couple Navy Seahawks doing practice water drops just off the shore of NAS North Island / Coronado… a thread Image
I posted a short video a while ago… but it took me a bit to scan through ~400 still pics and find the decent ones. Image
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Sep 15, 2023
There are a lot of comments from people who see my pics and videos and express how much they would like to go fly with the hurricane hunters. And I’m not sure they really appreciate what that means. We don’t take passengers apart from the occasional media but I thought it might be interesting to go into a bit more detail…. A thread seems to be in order.

Show time for a flight is ~2 hours before takeoff. The weather officer calls for an update on the storm and the rest of the crew updates the flight planning documents. We brief the mission and make sure flight plan and other paperwork is filed for our weather reconnaissance area.

Last night’s flight into Lee:
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About 45 minutes prior to takeoff the crew steps to the plane… in this case it’s in St Croix, a sunny tropical island, which means it was probably 110 degrees in the cockpit. Once we get the auxiliary power unit running (~130 decibels) it will power one of the A/C packs which starts getting things cooled off in the cockpit, maybe to the upper 80s while we go through the preflight. In the back, where the loadmaster and weather officer sit, it’s still blazing hot. Passengers also sit in the back.
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Once engines are running and we take off it starts getting feasibly comfortable in the aircraft. At this point things are usually pretty straightforward as we can talk through regular radios with ATC and it’s just normal flying. You can see St Croix from the air during the first few minutes after takeoff.

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