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A NOAA WP-3D Orion weather reconnaissance aircraft. Hurricane hunters, typhoon hunters, or cyclone hunters are aircrews that fly into tropical cyclones to gather weather data. . In the United States, the organizations that fly these missions are the United States Air Force Reserve's 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Hurricane Hunte
The WP-3Ds are equipped with three weather radars, C band radar in the nose and on the lower fuselage, and an X-band radar in the aircraft's tail. They are also equipped with the ability to deploy dropsondes into storm systems, and have onboard temperature sensors, and other meteorological equipment.
The Hurricane Hunters belong to the Aircraft Operations Center (AOC), located at Lakeland Linder International Airport in Lakeland, Florida, United States.The Aircraft Operations Center is a complement of commissioned personnel from the NOAA Commissioned Corps, federal employees and contractors under the Office of Marine and Aviation Operations (OMAO), which is a line office of the NOAA, which ...
Its original mission was to fly weather tracks along aircraft ferry routes between North America and Allied Western Europe. During the 1946 season, when the 53d WRS acquired the Boeing RB-29 (later WB-29) Superfortress as its primary aircraft, the term "Hurricane Hunters" was first used to describe its missions. While not an ideal weather ...
31 August 1944 – 15 June 1945 (Redesignated 53d Recon Sq, Long Range, Weather) 3.4.4 Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, Provisional: Tinker AFB: 5 July 1950 – 1 June 1951 (part of Joint Task Group 3.4) 8th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron (Heavy) (Provisional) RAF Bovingdon, RAF Watton: 28 March 1944 – 9 August 1944 (discontinued)
A tiny, four-legged storm chaser is legendary in her own right much like her owner and sidekick, Extreme Meteorologist Dr. Reed Timmer. Gizmo, a 15-year-old Yorkshire Terrier, has intercepted ...
Mike Boylan of Mike’s Weather Page sits in his storm chasing truck on June 8, 2023. Boylan is prepping for tracking and chasing storms this hurricane season. Ryan Ballogg/rballogg@bradenton.com
The Lockheed WC-130 is a high-wing, medium-range aircraft used for weather reconnaissance missions by the United States Air Force.The aircraft is a modified version of the C-130 Hercules transport configured with specialized weather instrumentation including a dropsonde deployment/receiver system and crewed by a meteorologist for penetration of tropical cyclones and winter storms to obtain ...