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Tropical Cowboy of Danger
@FlynonymousWX
Unprofessional photog & USAF Hurricane Hunter. Tweets, retweets, opinions & vague insinuations mostly mine and don’t represent DoD officially or unofficially.
Oct 28 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
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
Oct 27 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
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.
Jan 10 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
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
Sep 15, 2023 • 8 tweets • 6 min read
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:
Image 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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