Katrina, this will blow you away

[nenblom]

Keep your traytables and seatbacks in an upright and locked position! Really cool!

[nicelawn]

lockheed l-188 nice plane.

[Camoflaged3]

i thought they were flying a dengine..

[eldiablo68]

Takes a brave man to pilot a plane in that mess. Turbulent as hell,I wouldn't take that ride.

[TinnInches]

If they're going "oh shit", I would be tapped out on the floor in the back

[Rcf121090]

its looks like alot of snow!

[Puppylove5274]

i never knew how big the eye of a hurricane really was

[Jangle2007]

@Puppylove5274 the eye of katrina was unusually large - approx 35-40 miles across time this video was shot. Most eyes are 10-20 miles across. When Wilma ramped up in Oct 2005, her eye was initially only 2 miles across...too small to maneuver in. I'd always wanted to see a video from that flight, but I understand that the P-3 on that recon either malfunctioned or sustained damage during the last pass through the eyewall at 0800Z-about 4:00 AM local. Too dark. Must have been an amazing site.

[Artseyfly]

You sure as as hell will never catch me doing this shit.

[Nazizombies97]

so, how exactly do you fly into the eye, like where do u enter? above? or straight through?

[AroundSun]

@Nazizombies97 fly through the eye like a donut and come out on top, turn around, and go home after it passes. like nothing ever happened

[xxdamonxx77]

@Nazizombies97 Straight through. Good question.

[beckythumper]

Before reaching New Orleans?

[BeautifulMe126]

cool

[MrCrazyninja007]

chuck noris plays football with god in that stadium

[jtbowman132]

@MrCrazyninja007

Not funny anymore, after reading that on the other video...

[ilovemoviesuk]

@jtbowman132 the chuck norris jokes aint funny anymore at all. oh wait , they never were

[fitch003]

oh my god thats gorgeous!

[bloggulator]

Wonderful footage of a hurricane's eyewall, seen from the clear air in the eye. Great work from the crew of this plane.

[huckins81]

Go get 'em boyz!!

[TheTornadoF1]

HOLY CRAP THE EYE! AT 1:04

[loveape0008]

guys copy and past this three times on three diffrent vidoes for the people who lost there lives in hurrcaine kutrina

[FreeSpirited5]

Beautiful but terrible.

[gergreg2883]

Now thats what I call turbulence!

[Gulftango11]

Ithats crazy the clouds seem motionless. But we know there not......

[Pwnalizer]

that looks like a mountain.

[gammin66]

nutsoooooo!!! thanks for posting this vid! 

[MrUnknownPaper]

1:42 D:

[michaelarbec]

That's noice.

[GameLevelEditor]

Looks so peaceful and majestic above but down right nasty below.

[jmmarte]

Jeeeesus!

[Teeyall]

is it possible to travel with the eye of the storm that way u never have to go through the storm itself?

[XxCeltics34xX]

@Teeyall not with a plane but i guess you could in a boat

[eaglez4evr]

wow how long does the eye of the storm last overland before the 2nd part of the storm comes?

[xtbone1x]

@eaglez4evr it all depends on how fast the storm is moving

[Singnature12]

have you ever seen the wings of a 737 going through turbulance? imagine this planes' wings penetrating the wall!

[astronoman11]

how do they get out of the hurricane without being ripped to shreds?

[x0ticShwty]

where the hell do they expect to land?

[littlerayray77]

I was thinking the same thing. Since you know..its like a few states wide! LOL

[pennilesshippo]

I'm not all that impressed. Hurricane Norbert was a much gayer storm than this Ninny!

[Jam85954]

What the hell was that black thing at 1:36

[matt425877775]

only black thing a 1:36 is the propellers on the front of the plne

[Jam85954]

@matt425877775 no look more up in the clouds just a little above the propellers re play it until you see it

[TrandomnesstwO]

An Afro American with superhuman powers.

[Tigger12108]

my bad hurricane, niggers -.-

[Sammers1616]

Hurricanes and tornadoes are two completely different things. A hurricane can be though of as a Superstorm. A Tornado is a gathering of clouds that produce high winds.

[AViolentCobra]

Hurricanes are areas where the warm air rises so fast that it sucks down supper-cooled air from the stratusphere <-- cant spell. this causes the swirling motion, plus hurricanes can only be over see, once they get over land they die very quickly.

[KoNP69]

@AViolentCobra

Uh... check your facts. A hurricane is a cyclonic (low-pressure) system with a central pressure in the low-to-mid 900s. Air naturally spirals inward toward this low pressure, sucking heat from the water beneath it to feed the convection that drives it. A hurricane/cyclone/typhoon is a massive vertical heat engine. Additionally, thanks to adiabatic rules, the air heats up as it's sucked down from the upper atmosphere, due to being compressed.

[KoNP69]

@myself

Additionally, provided there are no shear winds and an ample supply of heat, a cyclonic system can persist indefinitely. They're triggered by moist air rising from the sea surface. Once again, thanks to adiabatic expansion, the water releases it's energy as latent heat of condensation. This sets off a positive feedback loop as more moist air rises (thanks to thermodynamics) releasing more heat, and before you know it you have a warm core cyclonic system, aka tropical cyclone/hurricane.

[KoNP69]

@myself

The whole thing is set spinning by the low pressure system at the centre, so you're left with a massive, rotating monster storm driven by the heat of condensation. The warm air is dragged into the center of the storm, the heat is distributed vertically in rainbands as the air expands and cools, it's dumped out of the top and sucked down over the outer edges, heating through compression, and being sucked back through all over again. Positive feedback loop.

[eleszar1]

LOLOL they fly inside the eye it seems awesome :D  lol these guys are risky :P

[debiassi]

Tiger your not actually that stupid. the only difference between a hurricane and a tornado is actually where they occur. In the eastern pacific, a swirling low pressure mass with winds exceeding 65mph is termed a hurricane cyclone . In the western pacific, they are called typhoons and tropical cyclones. A tornado is a type of cyclone that is born from thunderstorms and so can be more severe in nature but not always, there can be some very severe hurricanes also. Hope this helps

[bruno84]

A Hurricane, Typhoon or Cyclone are all the same thing. Different names according to their location.

A hurricane is a HUGE system of low pressure with massive winds. Usually many many miles across. A tornado is simillar in the sense it also spins really really fast around a core of low pressure but it´s usually yards wide. Tornado - microscale Hurricane - Macroscale

[Tigger12108]

Thanks for that footage, now i can prove my idiotic brother that they do actually fly planes in the the eye of the tornado. Was that lockheed Martin p-3 orion? i was wondering, its was looking awfully familiar.

[yachtymadness]

Er...Hurricane.

[Saberek]

A tornado would rape a plane.

[gotmuff]

...and not go to prison

...just thought I'd point that out

[anonymousstormchaser]

your brother is right manlol

[echizenn808]

yeh at this pint(in the eye)

a hurricane's is safer=.=

[matt425877775]

hurricanes are not safe they are ALOT worse then tornadoes

[galaxyrocker23]

was 0:30 the eye?

[moshon2007]

1:30 and on

[pilecan]

Lockheed Martin P-3 Orion?

[msheldon22]

Narragansett. RI we had 2 people go under today one found deceased . Still looking for the other one, update other found both drowned. Fire dept, Police. Coast Guard on the run around the clock. Ocean under severe swells high! Fisherman murdered found shot on boat in Mystic Ct 2 held .Click on for more.

[fuckthispost]

OMG It's like the movie day after tomorrow is coming true!!! :| :S

[fuckingmadskull]

thats the most insane thing nive ever saw but hey that was freaking unbeliable how come the plane doesnt get shredded apart?

[effinyeah]

that's beautiful! cool video.

[jerseyman10]

Dude, thats really cool...

[thebirdman47]

THANK YOU to the brave folks who fly into these monsters to give us enough information to know whats going on with the storms!!

[bhurley420]

That is pretty cool.

[juanramos2162]

yeah amazing

[kenyjune]

thats crazy

[tylercj]

wow amazing!