Flying through the eye of a hurricane

[dacch100]

fuck fuck fuck i wolud have shit all over my pants if i were there

[GAMERCAH]

these guys should get a life.

[GAMERCAH]

wheres king kong, and the empire state building?!

[17mndrake]

Hey is there any way I could get this video off of YouTube? I'll give you all the credit for the video with citations and all, but I have to present this in class and our school website has restrictions so we cant access YouTube from the school. I've tried asking the technician but he says there's probably nothing he can do about it but he'll try. Excellent Video and footage though! Thoroughly amazing what the power of nature can do and make! Thumbs up if you're with me!!!! :3

[ChukMakeIt]

@17mndrake RealPlayer

[TheReddevil0121]

@17mndrake try bb flashback

[kezark510]

my teaches made me watch this ats school -.-

[jman036]

hey look at the bright side , discounted air fare!

[GonzoSarge]

The eye of a hurricane is (in my opinion) the most beautiful thing in nature.

[Daedalus294]

the lead scientist guy with glasses has some crazy albert einstein style hair...lolz.

[xxdamonxx77]

This is an interesting video! Thanks for posting!

[Cenathon123]

4:49 we made it to heaven guys!!!!!!

[jcynavarro]

this is amazing...

[TheJohndesilva]

da pilot wearing shorts...:))

[airmanjones18]

I'm a geek I always wanted to be a storm chaser

[woogiathin]

Mass Effect music.

[Spudst3r]

Outside of the scientific reasons for doing this, we also hire pilots to fly through Hurricanes because who wouldn't want to do that?!

[sellybear1000]

Krazy as a mutthafucka

[Speedfreely]

Not only that, but to keep a level head and actually be analytical during all of this...I chalk it up to passion...these guys were born to do this.

[ItsBrunnhilda]

4:46 is wat we all been waiting for.

[PNWTom1]

I think it takes b@lls of steel to do this.

[0wolfer0]

@PNWTom1 No,it takes titanium,not steel.

[Htown20XX]

I remember gilbert everyone was worried he would hit houston, new orleans, lake charles, or corpus christi. If he hit houston with 200 mph winds things would be a lot different here

[Runningonbrains]

Reminds me of an awesome time when documentaries interviewed real people and used real footage to tell a story, instead of bombarding us with CG effects and "dramatic re-enactments". *sigh* Those were good days.

[TheGuest4000]

@Runningonbrains I've been watching a lot of recent documentaries. Most of them used real people and actual footage.

[TheTallMan35]

Do you think these guys get hazard pay?

[msny007]

@TheTallMan35 no

[EntropicMisanthropic]

Oh, I stand corrected. In the aforementioned story, only ONE of the engines was actually on fire and shut down, the other was running at about 50% with the housing de-icing boot torn and flapping in the wind. Max height on 2.5/4 engines was 7,000 feet, and they had to re-penetrate to get out of the eye. Pretty shocked they didn't get the wings torn off.

[EntropicMisanthropic]

Wind speeds are higher at low level in a hurricane. Height is safety in eyewall penetration.

Air Force Hurricane Hunters never fly lower than 10k by regulation.

NOAA Hurricane Hunters fly at 5k, and they used to penetrate at 1,500k for the best data until 1989, when a NOAA P-3 punched Hurricane Hugo at 1,500k falsely assuming it was still a Cat.3 (actually Cat.5) and took 5.5g in the vertical and 3.5 in the horizontal (about 2.5g past test load) and BARELY made it home on 2/4 engines.

[tinababy03]

acrosst isn't a word

[mixedbreed19]

@tinababy03 lol, I just noticed...its not even like he just fubbed up a word naturally, he rocks it a few times there haha

[EntropicMisanthropic]

@tinababy03 In defense of the idiosyncratic NOAA nerd, he likely has more scientific papers published than the average person has IQ points. Grammar and pronunciation is like a fly on Secretariat's ass.

[TheEpicThing]

THIS FUCKING VIDEO WONT LOAD

[danleggymail]

@TheEpicThing  Wont load for me either

[Lostnvb]

Dr. Jeff, can you tell your colleague that a hurricane is X amount of miles "across", not "acrossed". Thanks.

Weather Underground rules!

[GimmeKitty]

@Lostnvb It's just the scientist's dialect is all. Not to worry. I think if he had to SAY the word, he'd say "across". Just that he pronounces it "acrossed".

[jmmarte]

Hey cool crew!

[ph0chiz0]

@hobatu Failblog: Joke Fail

[renery1274]

A pesar de todos los estudios que tengan, hay que tener corazon para sobre volar hasta el ojo de un huracan, Son fantasticos

[CyrusNixes]

It's incredible when you see them penetrate out of the eyewall and into the eye in a second. He actually mentioned seeing a pressure of 882mb in this film. Guess it was changed to 888 but he strangely predicted Wilma's pressure 17 years later.

[real0988]

Video unpublished Gilberto on the Cayman Islands .. thanks for add. The turbulence of the eye wall, and then at minute 4:46 .. upon entering the eye is impressive. The reconnaissance flight showed that the lowest pressure of a hurricane of the twentieth century :D