Hurricane Hunting
This storm also marked the first intentional meteorological flight into a hurricane. On a bet with British pilots at Bryan Field, flight instructor Colonel Joe Duckworth flew his AT-6 Texan trainer directly into the storm, becoming the first hurricane hunter. On his return, he would make a second flight, this time carrying the base weather officer as a passenger.
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Famous quotes containing the words hurricane and/or hunting:
“Thought and beauty, like a hurricane or waves, should not know conventional, delimited forms.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“The French manner of hunting is gentlemanlike; ours is only for bumpkins and bodies. The poor beasts here are pursued and run down by much greater beasts than themselves; and the true British fox-hunter is most undoubtedly a species appropriated and peculiar to this country, which no other part of the globe produces.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)