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AMAZING aerial footage from the June 17th tornadoes!

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Uploaded by on Jun 23, 2009

TVN's RC Super Hauler aircraft deployed multiple parachute probes into the inflow region of the MONSTER supercell thunderstorm that eventually spawned the Aurora, NE tornado. This same storm produced several tornadoes hours before reaching Aurora, including those captured here, west of Grand Island and northeast of Kearney. For more on the TVN RC plane project, visit TornadoVideos.net, and tune in to Discovery Channel's Storm Chasers this fall!

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  • I'm so jealous (or shouldn't I be?), in France we nearly never have extreme wheather. The last tornado we got was 2 years ago; it was just a mini-tornado but everyone in France was frightened.

    I wish I could be there to meet the TVN crew and chase storms with other weather enthusiastics.

  • @debra195942 It's no less juvenile to post your pompous, misguided generalisations about 'the masses' to make yourself feel superior and apart from us. If you can't recognise and ignore nonsense, you're certainly no better and no different.

    Amazing video, amazing plane, amazing pilot, amazing technology, amazing forces of nature - thanks for posting!

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  • Did anyone else die a little inside when they saw "mini-tornado" in the top comment?

  • was that a dash cam on the rc plane

  • @TheBonecrasher666 that actually happens to a pilot once a year.

  • WHAT A LANDING

  • Thanks for doing that - incredible pictures of something you don't see every day

  • nice landing for that kind of wind

  • It wouldve been awesome if he went into the tornado...

  • What about using an "FPV" camera to fly the plane from inside the truck? It could be used with a UHF radio to easily fly 10mi or more from the van. You could also land safely away from the tornado and retrieve it later. Not to mention being able to run from the storm without having to wait for the plane to land and packing it away. Don't know if you would want to takeoff any closer to the storm but you could!

  • Man that's so cool. The aerial pictures were just amazing!

  • @TheBonecrasher666 That would fuckin suck.

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