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Stormchasers: The Hurricane Hunters and Their Fateful Flight Into Hurricane Janet (Revised)

Stormchasers: The Hurricane Hunters and Their Fateful Flight Into Hurricane Janet (Revised)

Toomey, David

Paperback

Air CombatEnvironmental StudiesWeather

ISBN10: 0393324486
ISBN13: 9780393324488
Publisher: W W Norton & Co
Published: Jun 1 2003
Pages: 324
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.86 Width: 5.56 Depth: 8.36
Language: English

In September 1955, Navy Lieutenant Commander Grover B. Windham and a crew of eight flew out of Guantanamo Bay into the eye of Hurricane Janet swirling in the Caribbean: a routine weather reconnaissance mission from which they never returned. In the wake of World War II, the Air Force and the Navy had discovered a new civilian arena where daring pilots could test their courage and skill. These Hurricane Hunters flew into raging storms to gauge their strength and predict their paths. Without computer, global positioning, or satellite support, they relied on rudimentary radar systems to locate the hurricane's eye and estimated the drift of their aircraft by looking at windblown waves below. Drawing from Navy documents and interviews with members of the squadron and relatives of the crew, Stormchasers reconstructs the ill-fated mission of Windham's crew from preflight checks to the chilling moment of their final transmission.

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