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HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION It depends on the individual's rank and years of experience, and whether or not he or she is a full-time Hurricane Hunter (an Air Reserve Technician, or ART) or a regular reservist. ART salaries are anywhere from $30,000 to $70,000 per year, whereas a reservist will make between $8,000 and $15,000 in a HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Association. Cyberflight Homeward Bound. During the entire six hours you spend inside the storm, the hurricane specialists at the National Hurricane Center in Miami are flooded with weather data measured automatically by the aircraft every 30 seconds. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Each page of numbers is zapped through a satellite link directly to the computers at the National Hurricane Center, and eagerly studied by the forecasters to see how large and how strong the storm is. Now the real fun begins. The weather officer looks down at the churning seas below, and estimates the strength of the wind by how the water looks. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Home Page. Click a thumbnail to expand an image, click the expanded image to minimize again. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION A recent addition to the ARWO's arsenal of weather equipment is the SFMR (stepped frequency microwave radiometer) that allows us to sample wind speed at the ocean surface as we fly along above the ocean at 5,000 or 10,000 feet. From here the ARWO is able to monitor the data, guide the pilots to the center of the storm using the wind speed and HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATIONCOOL PIXCYBER FLIGHTFAQSSWAN 38 SCHOLARSHIPMEDIA REQUESTSMETEOROLOGY It's true! We fly right into the eye of a hurricane! The 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, known as the Hurricane Hunters of the Air Force Reserve, is one-of-a-kind: the only Department of Defense organization still flying into tropical storms and hurricanes--since 1944. Our ten Lockheed-Martin WC-130J aircraft and crews are part of the 403rd Wing, based at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Home Page. We have five different flying jobs at the Hurricane Hunters. ALL jobs are part of the Air Force Reserve. Half of the positions are part-time (traditional reservists), and half are full-time (Air Reserve Technicians). HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION The 53rd WRS uses the WC-130J to penetrate tropical storms. These aircraft are not reinforced in any way in fact the only differences between a WC-130J and a C-130J is the addition of two external fuel tanks (giving them longer range), a radiometer pod on the left wing and the two addition crew pallets in the cargo bay (see below for more information on specific weather instruments). HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters. Hurricane Hunting started on a dare in the middle of World War II, when Lt Col Joe Duckworth took an AT-6 Texan training aircraft into the eye of a hurricane. Our squadron traces its heritage back over 50 years, to the 3rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, Air Route, Medium on August 7, HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION The 53rd WRS is aligned under the 403rd Reserve Wing located at Keesler AFB in Biloxi, Mississippi. Although the airplanes and people are Department of Defense assets the units “primary tasking” command is the Department of Commerce. Although a strange set-up it has worked well. Tropical reconnaissance is governed by the NationalHurricane
HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION It depends on the individual's rank and years of experience, and whether or not he or she is a full-time Hurricane Hunter (an Air Reserve Technician, or ART) or a regular reservist. ART salaries are anywhere from $30,000 to $70,000 per year, whereas a reservist will make between $8,000 and $15,000 in a HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Association. Cyberflight Homeward Bound. During the entire six hours you spend inside the storm, the hurricane specialists at the National Hurricane Center in Miami are flooded with weather data measured automatically by the aircraft every 30 seconds. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Each page of numbers is zapped through a satellite link directly to the computers at the National Hurricane Center, and eagerly studied by the forecasters to see how large and how strong the storm is. Now the real fun begins. The weather officer looks down at the churning seas below, and estimates the strength of the wind by how the water looks. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Home Page. Click a thumbnail to expand an image, click the expanded image to minimize again. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION A recent addition to the ARWO's arsenal of weather equipment is the SFMR (stepped frequency microwave radiometer) that allows us to sample wind speed at the ocean surface as we fly along above the ocean at 5,000 or 10,000 feet. From here the ARWO is able to monitor the data, guide the pilots to the center of the storm using the wind speed and HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Home Page. This site is managed by the non-profit Hurricane Hunter Association. Please read these important disclaimers and site info. For media requests: please see our Public Affairs information page. Website designed by George PerinaGeorge Perina HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION The area of responsiblity for the Hurricane Hunters is from 55 degrees west in the mid-Atlantic to Hawaii in the Pacific. That's a lot of ground to cover and includes the western Atlantic, the Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico, and the eastern Pacific. And there have been occasions when we have been spread across all of those regions at one time. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION This site is managed by the non-profit Hurricane Hunter Association. Please read these important disclaimers and site info. For media requests: please see our Public Affairs information page. Website designed by George PerinaGeorge Perina HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION As USAF aircrew members, we are costantly training. Here, during a quiet deployment to St. Croix, USVI, crew members get survival refresher training. Santa arrives on a Hurricane Hunter C-130J. The weather loadmaster prepares to launch a sonde into a storm. A weather loadmaster takes an opportunity to rest during the long flight backfrom a storm.
HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION A 53rd WRS WC-130J Hurricane Hunter aircraft flying low over the Gulf of Mexico. A CC-130J from the 815th Airlift Squadron "Flying Jennies" (left) and a WC-130J from the 53rd WRS "Hurricane Hunters" (right) fly in formation over the Gulf of Mexico. Night view in the cockpit of our WC-130J. A C-130J practices approaches at Keesler AFB, MS. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Home Page. Click a thumbnail to expand an image, click the expanded image to minimize again. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION This site is managed by the non-profit Hurricane Hunter Association. Please read these important disclaimers and site info. For media requests: please see our Public Affairs information page. Website designed by George PerinaGeorge Perina HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION A cold airplane waits for us as we fly winter storm tracks in the Gulf of Alaska from Elmendorf AFB, AK. Heaters warm the props and engines to help minimize problems with the mechanical and hydraulic systems. Deicing the plane before takeoff for a winter storm track in Alaska. Before we got the J-model, we flew the old WC-130H, seen here on the HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Each page of numbers is zapped through a satellite link directly to the computers at the National Hurricane Center, and eagerly studied by the forecasters to see how large and how strong the storm is. Now the real fun begins. The weather officer looks down at the churning seas below, and estimates the strength of the wind by how the water looks. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION It can land almost anywhere. While the crew chiefs stand by in case any minor adjustments need to be made to our flying machine, the loadmaster even checks the exit lights. It's reassuring so many eyes have looked over the aircraft we're going to fly. You immediately notice that the "Herc" is not built for comfort--it's a realworkhorse.
HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATIONCOOL PIXCYBER FLIGHTFAQSSWAN 38 SCHOLARSHIPMEDIA REQUESTSMETEOROLOGY It's true! We fly right into the eye of a hurricane! The 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, known as the Hurricane Hunters of the Air Force Reserve, is one-of-a-kind: the only Department of Defense organization still flying into tropical storms and hurricanes--since 1944. Our ten Lockheed-Martin WC-130J aircraft and crews are part of the 403rd Wing, based at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Home Page. We have five different flying jobs at the Hurricane Hunters. ALL jobs are part of the Air Force Reserve. Half of the positions are part-time (traditional reservists), and half are full-time (Air Reserve Technicians). HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION The 53rd WRS uses the WC-130J to penetrate tropical storms. These aircraft are not reinforced in any way in fact the only differences between a WC-130J and a C-130J is the addition of two external fuel tanks (giving them longer range), a radiometer pod on the left wing and the two addition crew pallets in the cargo bay (see below for more information on specific weather instruments). HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters. Hurricane Hunting started on a dare in the middle of World War II, when Lt Col Joe Duckworth took an AT-6 Texan training aircraft into the eye of a hurricane. Our squadron traces its heritage back over 50 years, to the 3rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, Air Route, Medium on August 7, HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION The 53rd WRS is aligned under the 403rd Reserve Wing located at Keesler AFB in Biloxi, Mississippi. Although the airplanes and people are Department of Defense assets the units “primary tasking” command is the Department of Commerce. Although a strange set-up it has worked well. Tropical reconnaissance is governed by the NationalHurricane
HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION It depends on the individual's rank and years of experience, and whether or not he or she is a full-time Hurricane Hunter (an Air Reserve Technician, or ART) or a regular reservist. ART salaries are anywhere from $30,000 to $70,000 per year, whereas a reservist will make between $8,000 and $15,000 in a HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Association. Cyberflight Homeward Bound. During the entire six hours you spend inside the storm, the hurricane specialists at the National Hurricane Center in Miami are flooded with weather data measured automatically by the aircraft every 30 seconds. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Each page of numbers is zapped through a satellite link directly to the computers at the National Hurricane Center, and eagerly studied by the forecasters to see how large and how strong the storm is. Now the real fun begins. The weather officer looks down at the churning seas below, and estimates the strength of the wind by how the water looks. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Home Page. Click a thumbnail to expand an image, click the expanded image to minimize again. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION A recent addition to the ARWO's arsenal of weather equipment is the SFMR (stepped frequency microwave radiometer) that allows us to sample wind speed at the ocean surface as we fly along above the ocean at 5,000 or 10,000 feet. From here the ARWO is able to monitor the data, guide the pilots to the center of the storm using the wind speed and HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATIONCOOL PIXCYBER FLIGHTFAQSSWAN 38 SCHOLARSHIPMEDIA REQUESTSMETEOROLOGY It's true! We fly right into the eye of a hurricane! The 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, known as the Hurricane Hunters of the Air Force Reserve, is one-of-a-kind: the only Department of Defense organization still flying into tropical storms and hurricanes--since 1944. Our ten Lockheed-Martin WC-130J aircraft and crews are part of the 403rd Wing, based at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Home Page. We have five different flying jobs at the Hurricane Hunters. ALL jobs are part of the Air Force Reserve. Half of the positions are part-time (traditional reservists), and half are full-time (Air Reserve Technicians). HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION The 53rd WRS uses the WC-130J to penetrate tropical storms. These aircraft are not reinforced in any way in fact the only differences between a WC-130J and a C-130J is the addition of two external fuel tanks (giving them longer range), a radiometer pod on the left wing and the two addition crew pallets in the cargo bay (see below for more information on specific weather instruments). HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters. Hurricane Hunting started on a dare in the middle of World War II, when Lt Col Joe Duckworth took an AT-6 Texan training aircraft into the eye of a hurricane. Our squadron traces its heritage back over 50 years, to the 3rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, Air Route, Medium on August 7, HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION The 53rd WRS is aligned under the 403rd Reserve Wing located at Keesler AFB in Biloxi, Mississippi. Although the airplanes and people are Department of Defense assets the units “primary tasking” command is the Department of Commerce. Although a strange set-up it has worked well. Tropical reconnaissance is governed by the NationalHurricane
HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION It depends on the individual's rank and years of experience, and whether or not he or she is a full-time Hurricane Hunter (an Air Reserve Technician, or ART) or a regular reservist. ART salaries are anywhere from $30,000 to $70,000 per year, whereas a reservist will make between $8,000 and $15,000 in a HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Association. Cyberflight Homeward Bound. During the entire six hours you spend inside the storm, the hurricane specialists at the National Hurricane Center in Miami are flooded with weather data measured automatically by the aircraft every 30 seconds. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Each page of numbers is zapped through a satellite link directly to the computers at the National Hurricane Center, and eagerly studied by the forecasters to see how large and how strong the storm is. Now the real fun begins. The weather officer looks down at the churning seas below, and estimates the strength of the wind by how the water looks. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Home Page. Click a thumbnail to expand an image, click the expanded image to minimize again. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION A recent addition to the ARWO's arsenal of weather equipment is the SFMR (stepped frequency microwave radiometer) that allows us to sample wind speed at the ocean surface as we fly along above the ocean at 5,000 or 10,000 feet. From here the ARWO is able to monitor the data, guide the pilots to the center of the storm using the wind speed and HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Home Page. This site is managed by the non-profit Hurricane Hunter Association. Please read these important disclaimers and site info. For media requests: please see our Public Affairs information page. Website designed by George PerinaGeorge Perina HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION The area of responsiblity for the Hurricane Hunters is from 55 degrees west in the mid-Atlantic to Hawaii in the Pacific. That's a lot of ground to cover and includes the western Atlantic, the Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico, and the eastern Pacific. And there have been occasions when we have been spread across all of those regions at one time. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION This site is managed by the non-profit Hurricane Hunter Association. Please read these important disclaimers and site info. For media requests: please see our Public Affairs information page. Website designed by George PerinaGeorge Perina HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION As USAF aircrew members, we are costantly training. Here, during a quiet deployment to St. Croix, USVI, crew members get survival refresher training. Santa arrives on a Hurricane Hunter C-130J. The weather loadmaster prepares to launch a sonde into a storm. A weather loadmaster takes an opportunity to rest during the long flight backfrom a storm.
HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION A 53rd WRS WC-130J Hurricane Hunter aircraft flying low over the Gulf of Mexico. A CC-130J from the 815th Airlift Squadron "Flying Jennies" (left) and a WC-130J from the 53rd WRS "Hurricane Hunters" (right) fly in formation over the Gulf of Mexico. Night view in the cockpit of our WC-130J. A C-130J practices approaches at Keesler AFB, MS. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Home Page. Click a thumbnail to expand an image, click the expanded image to minimize again. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION This site is managed by the non-profit Hurricane Hunter Association. Please read these important disclaimers and site info. For media requests: please see our Public Affairs information page. Website designed by George PerinaGeorge Perina HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION A cold airplane waits for us as we fly winter storm tracks in the Gulf of Alaska from Elmendorf AFB, AK. Heaters warm the props and engines to help minimize problems with the mechanical and hydraulic systems. Deicing the plane before takeoff for a winter storm track in Alaska. Before we got the J-model, we flew the old WC-130H, seen here on the HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Each page of numbers is zapped through a satellite link directly to the computers at the National Hurricane Center, and eagerly studied by the forecasters to see how large and how strong the storm is. Now the real fun begins. The weather officer looks down at the churning seas below, and estimates the strength of the wind by how the water looks. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION It can land almost anywhere. While the crew chiefs stand by in case any minor adjustments need to be made to our flying machine, the loadmaster even checks the exit lights. It's reassuring so many eyes have looked over the aircraft we're going to fly. You immediately notice that the "Herc" is not built for comfort--it's a realworkhorse.
HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATIONCOOL PIXCYBER FLIGHTFAQSSWAN 38 SCHOLARSHIPMEDIA REQUESTSMETEOROLOGY It's true! We fly right into the eye of a hurricane! The 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, known as the Hurricane Hunters of the Air Force Reserve, is one-of-a-kind: the only Department of Defense organization still flying into tropical storms and hurricanes--since 1944. Our ten Lockheed-Martin WC-130J aircraft and crews are part of the 403rd Wing, based at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Home Page. We have five different flying jobs at the Hurricane Hunters. ALL jobs are part of the Air Force Reserve. Half of the positions are part-time (traditional reservists), and half are full-time (Air Reserve Technicians). HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters. Hurricane Hunting started on a dare in the middle of World War II, when Lt Col Joe Duckworth took an AT-6 Texan training aircraft into the eye of a hurricane. Our squadron traces its heritage back over 50 years, to the 3rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, Air Route, Medium on August 7, HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION The 53rd WRS uses the WC-130J to penetrate tropical storms. These aircraft are not reinforced in any way in fact the only differences between a WC-130J and a C-130J is the addition of two external fuel tanks (giving them longer range), a radiometer pod on the left wing and the two addition crew pallets in the cargo bay (see below for more information on specific weather instruments). HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION It depends on the individual's rank and years of experience, and whether or not he or she is a full-time Hurricane Hunter (an Air Reserve Technician, or ART) or a regular reservist. ART salaries are anywhere from $30,000 to $70,000 per year, whereas a reservist will make between $8,000 and $15,000 in a HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION The area of responsiblity for the Hurricane Hunters is from 55 degrees west in the mid-Atlantic to Hawaii in the Pacific. That's a lot of ground to cover and includes the western Atlantic, the Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico, and the eastern Pacific. And there have been occasions when we have been spread across all of those regions at one time. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION A cold airplane waits for us as we fly winter storm tracks in the Gulf of Alaska from Elmendorf AFB, AK. Heaters warm the props and engines to help minimize problems with the mechanical and hydraulic systems. Deicing the plane before takeoff for a winter storm track in Alaska. Before we got the J-model, we flew the old WC-130H, seen here on the HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Association. Cyberflight Homeward Bound. During the entire six hours you spend inside the storm, the hurricane specialists at the National Hurricane Center in Miami are flooded with weather data measured automatically by the aircraft every 30 seconds. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION A recent addition to the ARWO's arsenal of weather equipment is the SFMR (stepped frequency microwave radiometer) that allows us to sample wind speed at the ocean surface as we fly along above the ocean at 5,000 or 10,000 feet. From here the ARWO is able to monitor the data, guide the pilots to the center of the storm using the wind speed and HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION This site is managed by the non-profit Hurricane Hunter Association. Please read these important disclaimers and site info. For media requests: please see our Public Affairs information page. Website designed by George PerinaGeorge Perina HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATIONCOOL PIXCYBER FLIGHTFAQSSWAN 38 SCHOLARSHIPMEDIA REQUESTSMETEOROLOGY It's true! We fly right into the eye of a hurricane! The 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, known as the Hurricane Hunters of the Air Force Reserve, is one-of-a-kind: the only Department of Defense organization still flying into tropical storms and hurricanes--since 1944. Our ten Lockheed-Martin WC-130J aircraft and crews are part of the 403rd Wing, based at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Home Page. We have five different flying jobs at the Hurricane Hunters. ALL jobs are part of the Air Force Reserve. Half of the positions are part-time (traditional reservists), and half are full-time (Air Reserve Technicians). HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters. Hurricane Hunting started on a dare in the middle of World War II, when Lt Col Joe Duckworth took an AT-6 Texan training aircraft into the eye of a hurricane. Our squadron traces its heritage back over 50 years, to the 3rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, Air Route, Medium on August 7, HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION The 53rd WRS uses the WC-130J to penetrate tropical storms. These aircraft are not reinforced in any way in fact the only differences between a WC-130J and a C-130J is the addition of two external fuel tanks (giving them longer range), a radiometer pod on the left wing and the two addition crew pallets in the cargo bay (see below for more information on specific weather instruments). HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION It depends on the individual's rank and years of experience, and whether or not he or she is a full-time Hurricane Hunter (an Air Reserve Technician, or ART) or a regular reservist. ART salaries are anywhere from $30,000 to $70,000 per year, whereas a reservist will make between $8,000 and $15,000 in a HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION The area of responsiblity for the Hurricane Hunters is from 55 degrees west in the mid-Atlantic to Hawaii in the Pacific. That's a lot of ground to cover and includes the western Atlantic, the Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico, and the eastern Pacific. And there have been occasions when we have been spread across all of those regions at one time. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION A cold airplane waits for us as we fly winter storm tracks in the Gulf of Alaska from Elmendorf AFB, AK. Heaters warm the props and engines to help minimize problems with the mechanical and hydraulic systems. Deicing the plane before takeoff for a winter storm track in Alaska. Before we got the J-model, we flew the old WC-130H, seen here on the HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Association. Cyberflight Homeward Bound. During the entire six hours you spend inside the storm, the hurricane specialists at the National Hurricane Center in Miami are flooded with weather data measured automatically by the aircraft every 30 seconds. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION A recent addition to the ARWO's arsenal of weather equipment is the SFMR (stepped frequency microwave radiometer) that allows us to sample wind speed at the ocean surface as we fly along above the ocean at 5,000 or 10,000 feet. From here the ARWO is able to monitor the data, guide the pilots to the center of the storm using the wind speed and HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION This site is managed by the non-profit Hurricane Hunter Association. Please read these important disclaimers and site info. For media requests: please see our Public Affairs information page. Website designed by George PerinaGeorge Perina HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Call our 403rd Wing Public Affairs office at (228)377-2056 during normal office hours (8 a.m.- 4:30 p.m. Central time) when there is a storm going on. Please call as soon as possible, because our flights fill up fast--especially when the storm approaches land. We can take up to three media outlets at a. time. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Home Page. This site is managed by the non-profit Hurricane Hunter Association. Please read these important disclaimers and site info. For media requests: please see our Public Affairs information page. Website designed by George PerinaGeorge Perina HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Association. Photo Gallery - Best Images of the Hurricane Hunters. Click a thumbnail to expand an image, click the expanded image to minimize again. The sun setting over the eyewall of Typhoon Jangmi in the Pacific Ocean in 2008. A view looking up the eyewall of Hurricane Ivan in 2004. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION As USAF aircrew members, we are costantly training. Here, during a quiet deployment to St. Croix, USVI, crew members get survival refresher training. Santa arrives on a Hurricane Hunter C-130J. The weather loadmaster prepares to launch a sonde into a storm. A weather loadmaster takes an opportunity to rest during the long flight backfrom a storm.
HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Home Page. Click a thumbnail to expand an image, click the expanded image to minimize again. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION This site is managed by the non-profit Hurricane Hunter Association. Please read these important disclaimers and site info. For media requests: please see our Public Affairs information page. Website designed by George PerinaGeorge Perina HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION A 53rd WRS WC-130J Hurricane Hunter aircraft flying low over the Gulf of Mexico. A CC-130J from the 815th Airlift Squadron "Flying Jennies" (left) and a WC-130J from the 53rd WRS "Hurricane Hunters" (right) fly in formation over the Gulf of Mexico. Night view in the cockpit of our WC-130J. A C-130J practices approaches at Keesler AFB, MS. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION A cold airplane waits for us as we fly winter storm tracks in the Gulf of Alaska from Elmendorf AFB, AK. Heaters warm the props and engines to help minimize problems with the mechanical and hydraulic systems. Deicing the plane before takeoff for a winter storm track in Alaska. Before we got the J-model, we flew the old WC-130H, seen here on the HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION It can land almost anywhere. While the crew chiefs stand by in case any minor adjustments need to be made to our flying machine, the loadmaster even checks the exit lights. It's reassuring so many eyes have looked over the aircraft we're going to fly. You immediately notice that the "Herc" is not built for comfort--it's a realworkhorse.
HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION This site is managed by the non-profit Hurricane Hunter Association. Please read these important disclaimers and site info. For media requests: please see our Public Affairs information page. Website designed by George PerinaGeorge Perina HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATIONCOOL PIXCYBER FLIGHTFAQSSWAN 38 SCHOLARSHIPMEDIA REQUESTSMETEOROLOGY It's true! We fly right into the eye of a hurricane! The 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, known as the Hurricane Hunters of the Air Force Reserve, is one-of-a-kind: the only Department of Defense organization still flying into tropical storms and hurricanes--since 1944. Our ten Lockheed-Martin WC-130J aircraft and crews are part of the 403rd Wing, based at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Home Page. We have five different flying jobs at the Hurricane Hunters. ALL jobs are part of the Air Force Reserve. Half of the positions are part-time (traditional reservists), and half are full-time (Air Reserve Technicians). HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION The 53rd WRS uses the WC-130J to penetrate tropical storms. These aircraft are not reinforced in any way in fact the only differences between a WC-130J and a C-130J is the addition of two external fuel tanks (giving them longer range), a radiometer pod on the left wing and the two addition crew pallets in the cargo bay (see below for more information on specific weather instruments). HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunting started on a dare in the middle of World War II, when Lt Col Joe Duckworth took an AT-6 Texan training aircraft into the eye of a hurricane. Our squadron traces its heritage back over 50 years, to the 3rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, Air Route, Mediumon August 7, 1944.
HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Weather Loadmaster/Dropsonde Systems Operator: The "load" actually has two jobs on the WC-130. They are a Loadmaster, which requires making sure everything is loaded and tied down properly in the cargo compartment, as well as scanning the exterior of the airplane during engine start, and monitoring the health of the plane during the flight by inspecting the engines and other aircraft systems. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Home Page. The primary mission of the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron (53rd WRS) is to conduct tropical storm reconnaissance. The 53rd WRS is aligned under the 403rd Reserve Wing located at Keesler AFB in Biloxi, Mississippi. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Home Page. This site is managed by the non-profit Hurricane Hunter Association. Please read these important disclaimers and site info. For media requests: please see our Public Affairs information page. Website designed by George PerinaGeorge Perina HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Home Page. After what seems like an eternity (was it really just three minutes?), the dark grey clouds outside the window begin to brighten, and suddenly blinding white light stings your eyes. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Home Page. On many of our flights, we allow media such as TV crews, newspaper reporters, and magazine photographers to fly with us to experience and report to HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION On the left side of the cargo compartment is the ARWO (Aerial Reconnaissance Weather Officer) and the equipment that the ARWO uses to record flight level data from the aircraft's weather instruments as well as the satellite transceiver to communicate our data to theHurricane Center.
HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATIONCOOL PIXCYBER FLIGHTFAQSSWAN 38 SCHOLARSHIPMEDIA REQUESTSMETEOROLOGY It's true! We fly right into the eye of a hurricane! The 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, known as the Hurricane Hunters of the Air Force Reserve, is one-of-a-kind: the only Department of Defense organization still flying into tropical storms and hurricanes--since 1944. Our ten Lockheed-Martin WC-130J aircraft and crews are part of the 403rd Wing, based at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Home Page. We have five different flying jobs at the Hurricane Hunters. ALL jobs are part of the Air Force Reserve. Half of the positions are part-time (traditional reservists), and half are full-time (Air Reserve Technicians). HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION The 53rd WRS uses the WC-130J to penetrate tropical storms. These aircraft are not reinforced in any way in fact the only differences between a WC-130J and a C-130J is the addition of two external fuel tanks (giving them longer range), a radiometer pod on the left wing and the two addition crew pallets in the cargo bay (see below for more information on specific weather instruments). HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunting started on a dare in the middle of World War II, when Lt Col Joe Duckworth took an AT-6 Texan training aircraft into the eye of a hurricane. Our squadron traces its heritage back over 50 years, to the 3rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, Air Route, Mediumon August 7, 1944.
HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Weather Loadmaster/Dropsonde Systems Operator: The "load" actually has two jobs on the WC-130. They are a Loadmaster, which requires making sure everything is loaded and tied down properly in the cargo compartment, as well as scanning the exterior of the airplane during engine start, and monitoring the health of the plane during the flight by inspecting the engines and other aircraft systems. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Home Page. The primary mission of the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron (53rd WRS) is to conduct tropical storm reconnaissance. The 53rd WRS is aligned under the 403rd Reserve Wing located at Keesler AFB in Biloxi, Mississippi. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Home Page. This site is managed by the non-profit Hurricane Hunter Association. Please read these important disclaimers and site info. For media requests: please see our Public Affairs information page. Website designed by George PerinaGeorge Perina HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Home Page. After what seems like an eternity (was it really just three minutes?), the dark grey clouds outside the window begin to brighten, and suddenly blinding white light stings your eyes. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Home Page. On many of our flights, we allow media such as TV crews, newspaper reporters, and magazine photographers to fly with us to experience and report to HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION On the left side of the cargo compartment is the ARWO (Aerial Reconnaissance Weather Officer) and the equipment that the ARWO uses to record flight level data from the aircraft's weather instruments as well as the satellite transceiver to communicate our data to theHurricane Center.
HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION If you're a bona-fide member of the media, you may get permission to fly on one of our storm missions. Call our 403rd Wing Public Affairs office at (228)377-2056 during normal office hours (8 a.m.- 4:30 p.m. Central time) when there is a storm going on. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Home Page. It's debatable to some folks whether or not tropical meteorology is a science or an art. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION This site is managed by the non-profit Hurricane Hunter Association. Please read these important disclaimers and site info. For media requests: please see our Public Affairs information page. Website designed by George Perina HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Home Page. During the entire six hours you spend inside the storm, the hurricane specialists at the National Hurricane Center in Miami are flooded with weather data measured automatically by the aircraft every 30 seconds. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Home Page. We routinely get lots of questions and requests from the media, students, teachers, and the public in general about a variety of subjects. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Home Page. Click a thumbnail to expand an image, click the expanded image to minimize again. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION "Teal Four One, Keesler Tower. Winds 180 at 5, altimeter 29.95. cleared for takeoff runway two one. Climb and maintain two thousand,runway heading."
HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Home Page. A CC-130J from the 815th Airlift Squadron "Flying Jennies" (left) and a WC-130J from the 53rd WRS "Hurricane Hunters" (right) fly in formation over the Mississippi Gulf Coast. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Home Page. This site is managed by the non-profit Hurricane Hunter Association. Please read these important disclaimers and site info. For media requests: please see our Public Affairs information page. Website designed by George PerinaGeorge Perina HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Home Page. Before we got the J-model, we flew the old WC-130H, seen here on the ramp at Elmendorf AFB, AK during a winter storm deployment. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATIONCOOL PIXCYBER FLIGHTFAQSSWAN 38 SCHOLARSHIPMEDIA REQUESTSMETEOROLOGY It's true! We fly right into the eye of a hurricane! The 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, known as the Hurricane Hunters of the Air Force Reserve, is one-of-a-kind: the only Department of Defense organization still flying into tropical storms and hurricanes--since 1944. Our ten Lockheed-Martin WC-130J aircraft and crews are part of the 403rd Wing, based at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Home Page. We have five different flying jobs at the Hurricane Hunters. ALL jobs are part of the Air Force Reserve. Half of the positions are part-time (traditional reservists), and half are full-time (Air Reserve Technicians). HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION The 53rd WRS uses the WC-130J to penetrate tropical storms. These aircraft are not reinforced in any way in fact the only differences between a WC-130J and a C-130J is the addition of two external fuel tanks (giving them longer range), a radiometer pod on the left wing and the two addition crew pallets in the cargo bay (see below for more information on specific weather instruments). HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters. Hurricane Hunting started on a dare in the middle of World War II, when Lt Col Joe Duckworth took an AT-6 Texan training aircraft into the eye of a hurricane. Our squadron traces its heritage back over 50 years, to the 3rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, Air Route, Medium on August 7, HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION We have five different flying jobs at the Hurricane Hunters. ALL jobs are part of the Air Force Reserve. Half of the positions are part-time (traditional reservists), and half are full-time (Air Reserve Technicians). We have 40 pilots, 20 each of navigators, aerialreconnaissance
HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION It depends on the individual's rank and years of experience, and whether or not he or she is a full-time Hurricane Hunter (an Air Reserve Technician, or ART) or a regular reservist. ART salaries are anywhere from $30,000 to $70,000 per year, whereas a reservist will make between $8,000 and $15,000 in a HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION The area of responsiblity for the Hurricane Hunters is from 55 degrees west in the mid-Atlantic to Hawaii in the Pacific. That's a lot of ground to cover and includes the western Atlantic, the Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico, and the eastern Pacific. And there have been occasions when we have been spread across all of those regions at one time. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION A cold airplane waits for us as we fly winter storm tracks in the Gulf of Alaska from Elmendorf AFB, AK. Heaters warm the props and engines to help minimize problems with the mechanical and hydraulic systems. Deicing the plane before takeoff for a winter storm track in Alaska. Before we got the J-model, we flew the old WC-130H, seen here on the HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Association. Cyberflight Homeward Bound. During the entire six hours you spend inside the storm, the hurricane specialists at the National Hurricane Center in Miami are flooded with weather data measured automatically by the aircraft every 30 seconds. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION A recent addition to the ARWO's arsenal of weather equipment is the SFMR (stepped frequency microwave radiometer) that allows us to sample wind speed at the ocean surface as we fly along above the ocean at 5,000 or 10,000 feet. From here the ARWO is able to monitor the data, guide the pilots to the center of the storm using the wind speed and HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATIONCOOL PIXCYBER FLIGHTFAQSSWAN 38 SCHOLARSHIPMEDIA REQUESTSMETEOROLOGY It's true! We fly right into the eye of a hurricane! The 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, known as the Hurricane Hunters of the Air Force Reserve, is one-of-a-kind: the only Department of Defense organization still flying into tropical storms and hurricanes--since 1944. Our ten Lockheed-Martin WC-130J aircraft and crews are part of the 403rd Wing, based at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Home Page. We have five different flying jobs at the Hurricane Hunters. ALL jobs are part of the Air Force Reserve. Half of the positions are part-time (traditional reservists), and half are full-time (Air Reserve Technicians). HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION The 53rd WRS uses the WC-130J to penetrate tropical storms. These aircraft are not reinforced in any way in fact the only differences between a WC-130J and a C-130J is the addition of two external fuel tanks (giving them longer range), a radiometer pod on the left wing and the two addition crew pallets in the cargo bay (see below for more information on specific weather instruments). HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters. Hurricane Hunting started on a dare in the middle of World War II, when Lt Col Joe Duckworth took an AT-6 Texan training aircraft into the eye of a hurricane. Our squadron traces its heritage back over 50 years, to the 3rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, Air Route, Medium on August 7, HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION We have five different flying jobs at the Hurricane Hunters. ALL jobs are part of the Air Force Reserve. Half of the positions are part-time (traditional reservists), and half are full-time (Air Reserve Technicians). We have 40 pilots, 20 each of navigators, aerialreconnaissance
HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION It depends on the individual's rank and years of experience, and whether or not he or she is a full-time Hurricane Hunter (an Air Reserve Technician, or ART) or a regular reservist. ART salaries are anywhere from $30,000 to $70,000 per year, whereas a reservist will make between $8,000 and $15,000 in a HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION The area of responsiblity for the Hurricane Hunters is from 55 degrees west in the mid-Atlantic to Hawaii in the Pacific. That's a lot of ground to cover and includes the western Atlantic, the Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico, and the eastern Pacific. And there have been occasions when we have been spread across all of those regions at one time. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION A cold airplane waits for us as we fly winter storm tracks in the Gulf of Alaska from Elmendorf AFB, AK. Heaters warm the props and engines to help minimize problems with the mechanical and hydraulic systems. Deicing the plane before takeoff for a winter storm track in Alaska. Before we got the J-model, we flew the old WC-130H, seen here on the HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Association. Cyberflight Homeward Bound. During the entire six hours you spend inside the storm, the hurricane specialists at the National Hurricane Center in Miami are flooded with weather data measured automatically by the aircraft every 30 seconds. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION A recent addition to the ARWO's arsenal of weather equipment is the SFMR (stepped frequency microwave radiometer) that allows us to sample wind speed at the ocean surface as we fly along above the ocean at 5,000 or 10,000 feet. From here the ARWO is able to monitor the data, guide the pilots to the center of the storm using the wind speed and HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Call our 403rd Wing Public Affairs office at (228)377-2056 during normal office hours (8 a.m.- 4:30 p.m. Central time) when there is a storm going on. Please call as soon as possible, because our flights fill up fast--especially when the storm approaches land. We can take up to three media outlets at a. time. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Association. Photo Gallery - Best Images of the Hurricane Hunters. Click a thumbnail to expand an image, click the expanded image to minimize again. The sun setting over the eyewall of Typhoon Jangmi in the Pacific Ocean in 2008. A view looking up the eyewall of Hurricane Ivan in 2004. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Home Page. Click a thumbnail to expand an image, click the expanded image to minimize again. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION As USAF aircrew members, we are costantly training. Here, during a quiet deployment to St. Croix, USVI, crew members get survival refresher training. Santa arrives on a Hurricane Hunter C-130J. The weather loadmaster prepares to launch a sonde into a storm. A weather loadmaster takes an opportunity to rest during the long flight backfrom a storm.
HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION This site is managed by the non-profit Hurricane Hunter Association. Please read these important disclaimers and site info. For media requests: please see our Public Affairs information page. Website designed by George PerinaGeorge Perina HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION A 53rd WRS WC-130J Hurricane Hunter aircraft flying low over the Gulf of Mexico. A CC-130J from the 815th Airlift Squadron "Flying Jennies" (left) and a WC-130J from the 53rd WRS "Hurricane Hunters" (right) fly in formation over the Gulf of Mexico. Night view in the cockpit of our WC-130J. A C-130J practices approaches at Keesler AFB, MS. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION A cold airplane waits for us as we fly winter storm tracks in the Gulf of Alaska from Elmendorf AFB, AK. Heaters warm the props and engines to help minimize problems with the mechanical and hydraulic systems. Deicing the plane before takeoff for a winter storm track in Alaska. Before we got the J-model, we flew the old WC-130H, seen here on the HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION It can land almost anywhere. While the crew chiefs stand by in case any minor adjustments need to be made to our flying machine, the loadmaster even checks the exit lights. It's reassuring so many eyes have looked over the aircraft we're going to fly. You immediately notice that the "Herc" is not built for comfort--it's a realworkhorse.
HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION This site is managed by the non-profit Hurricane Hunter Association. Please read these important disclaimers and site info. For media requests: please see our Public Affairs information page. Website designed by George PerinaGeorge Perina HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Each page of numbers is zapped through a satellite link directly to the computers at the National Hurricane Center, and eagerly studied by the forecasters to see how large and how strong the storm is. Now the real fun begins. The weather officer looks down at the churning seas below, and estimates the strength of the wind by how the water looks. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATIONCOOL PIXCYBER FLIGHTFAQSSWAN 38 SCHOLARSHIPMEDIA REQUESTSMETEOROLOGY It's true! We fly right into the eye of a hurricane! The 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, known as the Hurricane Hunters of the Air Force Reserve, is one-of-a-kind: the only Department of Defense organization still flying into tropical storms and hurricanes--since 1944. Our ten Lockheed-Martin WC-130J aircraft and crews are part of the 403rd Wing, based at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Home Page. We have five different flying jobs at the Hurricane Hunters. ALL jobs are part of the Air Force Reserve. Half of the positions are part-time (traditional reservists), and half are full-time (Air Reserve Technicians). HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION The 53rd WRS uses the WC-130J to penetrate tropical storms. These aircraft are not reinforced in any way in fact the only differences between a WC-130J and a C-130J is the addition of two external fuel tanks (giving them longer range), a radiometer pod on the left wing and the two addition crew pallets in the cargo bay (see below for more information on specific weather instruments). HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION We have five different flying jobs at the Hurricane Hunters. ALL jobs are part of the Air Force Reserve. Half of the positions are part-time (traditional reservists), and half are full-time (Air Reserve Technicians). We have 40 pilots, 20 each of navigators, aerialreconnaissance
HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION The 53rd WRS is aligned under the 403rd Reserve Wing located at Keesler AFB in Biloxi, Mississippi. Although the airplanes and people are Department of Defense assets the units “primary tasking” command is the Department of Commerce. Although a strange set-up it has worked well. Tropical reconnaissance is governed by the NationalHurricane
HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Home Page. This site is managed by the non-profit Hurricane Hunter Association. Please read these important disclaimers and site info. For media requests: please see our Public Affairs information page. Website designed by George PerinaGeorge Perina HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION It depends on the individual's rank and years of experience, and whether or not he or she is a full-time Hurricane Hunter (an Air Reserve Technician, or ART) or a regular reservist. ART salaries are anywhere from $30,000 to $70,000 per year, whereas a reservist will make between $8,000 and $15,000 in a HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Home Page. Click a thumbnail to expand an image, click the expanded image to minimize again. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Each page of numbers is zapped through a satellite link directly to the computers at the National Hurricane Center, and eagerly studied by the forecasters to see how large and how strong the storm is. Now the real fun begins. The weather officer looks down at the churning seas below, and estimates the strength of the wind by how the water looks. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION A recent addition to the ARWO's arsenal of weather equipment is the SFMR (stepped frequency microwave radiometer) that allows us to sample wind speed at the ocean surface as we fly along above the ocean at 5,000 or 10,000 feet. From here the ARWO is able to monitor the data, guide the pilots to the center of the storm using the wind speed and HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATIONCOOL PIXCYBER FLIGHTFAQSSWAN 38 SCHOLARSHIPMEDIA REQUESTSMETEOROLOGY It's true! We fly right into the eye of a hurricane! The 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, known as the Hurricane Hunters of the Air Force Reserve, is one-of-a-kind: the only Department of Defense organization still flying into tropical storms and hurricanes--since 1944. Our ten Lockheed-Martin WC-130J aircraft and crews are part of the 403rd Wing, based at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Home Page. We have five different flying jobs at the Hurricane Hunters. ALL jobs are part of the Air Force Reserve. Half of the positions are part-time (traditional reservists), and half are full-time (Air Reserve Technicians). HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION The 53rd WRS uses the WC-130J to penetrate tropical storms. These aircraft are not reinforced in any way in fact the only differences between a WC-130J and a C-130J is the addition of two external fuel tanks (giving them longer range), a radiometer pod on the left wing and the two addition crew pallets in the cargo bay (see below for more information on specific weather instruments). HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION We have five different flying jobs at the Hurricane Hunters. ALL jobs are part of the Air Force Reserve. Half of the positions are part-time (traditional reservists), and half are full-time (Air Reserve Technicians). We have 40 pilots, 20 each of navigators, aerialreconnaissance
HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION The 53rd WRS is aligned under the 403rd Reserve Wing located at Keesler AFB in Biloxi, Mississippi. Although the airplanes and people are Department of Defense assets the units “primary tasking” command is the Department of Commerce. Although a strange set-up it has worked well. Tropical reconnaissance is governed by the NationalHurricane
HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Home Page. This site is managed by the non-profit Hurricane Hunter Association. Please read these important disclaimers and site info. For media requests: please see our Public Affairs information page. Website designed by George PerinaGeorge Perina HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION It depends on the individual's rank and years of experience, and whether or not he or she is a full-time Hurricane Hunter (an Air Reserve Technician, or ART) or a regular reservist. ART salaries are anywhere from $30,000 to $70,000 per year, whereas a reservist will make between $8,000 and $15,000 in a HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Home Page. Click a thumbnail to expand an image, click the expanded image to minimize again. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Each page of numbers is zapped through a satellite link directly to the computers at the National Hurricane Center, and eagerly studied by the forecasters to see how large and how strong the storm is. Now the real fun begins. The weather officer looks down at the churning seas below, and estimates the strength of the wind by how the water looks. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION A recent addition to the ARWO's arsenal of weather equipment is the SFMR (stepped frequency microwave radiometer) that allows us to sample wind speed at the ocean surface as we fly along above the ocean at 5,000 or 10,000 feet. From here the ARWO is able to monitor the data, guide the pilots to the center of the storm using the wind speed and HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Call our 403rd Wing Public Affairs office at (228)377-2056 during normal office hours (8 a.m.- 4:30 p.m. Central time) when there is a storm going on. Please call as soon as possible, because our flights fill up fast--especially when the storm approaches land. We can take up to three media outlets at a. time. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION As USAF aircrew members, we are costantly training. Here, during a quiet deployment to St. Croix, USVI, crew members get survival refresher training. Santa arrives on a Hurricane Hunter C-130J. The weather loadmaster prepares to launch a sonde into a storm. A weather loadmaster takes an opportunity to rest during the long flight backfrom a storm.
HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Home Page. Click a thumbnail to expand an image, click the expanded image to minimize again. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION This site is managed by the non-profit Hurricane Hunter Association. Please read these important disclaimers and site info. For media requests: please see our Public Affairs information page. Website designed by George Perina HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION The area of responsiblity for the Hurricane Hunters is from 55 degrees west in the mid-Atlantic to Hawaii in the Pacific. That's a lot of ground to cover and includes the western Atlantic, the Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico, and the eastern Pacific. And there have been occasions when we have been spread across all of those regions at one time. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION A 53rd WRS WC-130J Hurricane Hunter aircraft flying low over the Gulf of Mexico. A CC-130J from the 815th Airlift Squadron "Flying Jennies" (left) and a WC-130J from the 53rd WRS "Hurricane Hunters" (right) fly in formation over the Gulf of Mexico. Night view in the cockpit of our WC-130J. A C-130J practices approaches at Keesler AFB, MS. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION A cold airplane waits for us as we fly winter storm tracks in the Gulf of Alaska from Elmendorf AFB, AK. Heaters warm the props and engines to help minimize problems with the mechanical and hydraulic systems. Deicing the plane before takeoff for a winter storm track in Alaska. Before we got the J-model, we flew the old WC-130H, seen here on the HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION This site is managed by the non-profit Hurricane Hunter Association. Please read these important disclaimers and site info. For media requests: please see our Public Affairs information page. Website designed by George PerinaGeorge Perina HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Association. Cyberflight Homeward Bound. During the entire six hours you spend inside the storm, the hurricane specialists at the National Hurricane Center in Miami are flooded with weather data measured automatically by the aircraft every 30 seconds. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION "Teal Four One, Keesler Tower. Winds 180 at 5, altimeter 29.95. cleared for takeoff runway two one. Climb and maintain two thousand,runway heading."
HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATIONCOOL PIXCYBER FLIGHTFAQSSWAN 38 SCHOLARSHIPMEDIA REQUESTSMETEOROLOGY It's true! We fly right into the eye of a hurricane! The 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, known as the Hurricane Hunters of the Air Force Reserve, is one-of-a-kind: the only Department of Defense organization still flying into tropical storms and hurricanes--since 1944. Our ten Lockheed-Martin WC-130J aircraft and crews are part of the 403rd Wing, based at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Home Page. We have five different flying jobs at the Hurricane Hunters. ALL jobs are part of the Air Force Reserve. Half of the positions are part-time (traditional reservists), and half are full-time (Air Reserve Technicians). HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION The 53rd WRS uses the WC-130J to penetrate tropical storms. These aircraft are not reinforced in any way in fact the only differences between a WC-130J and a C-130J is the addition of two external fuel tanks (giving them longer range), a radiometer pod on the left wing and the two addition crew pallets in the cargo bay (see below for more information on specific weather instruments). HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION We have five different flying jobs at the Hurricane Hunters. ALL jobs are part of the Air Force Reserve. Half of the positions are part-time (traditional reservists), and half are full-time (Air Reserve Technicians). We have 40 pilots, 20 each of navigators, aerialreconnaissance
HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATIONHURRICANE HUNTERS NOAAHURRICANE HUNTERS PLANELIVE RECON HURRICANE Hurricane Hunters. Hurricane Hunting started on a dare in the middle of World War II, when Lt Col Joe Duckworth took an AT-6 Texan training aircraft into the eye of a hurricane. Our squadron traces its heritage back over 50 years, to the 3rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, Air Route, Medium on August 7, HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION The 53rd WRS is aligned under the 403rd Reserve Wing located at Keesler AFB in Biloxi, Mississippi. Although the airplanes and people are Department of Defense assets the units “primary tasking” command is the Department of Commerce. Although a strange set-up it has worked well. Tropical reconnaissance is governed by the NationalHurricane
HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION As USAF aircrew members, we are costantly training. Here, during a quiet deployment to St. Croix, USVI, crew members get survival refresher training. Santa arrives on a Hurricane Hunter C-130J. The weather loadmaster prepares to launch a sonde into a storm. A weather loadmaster takes an opportunity to rest during the long flight backfrom a storm.
HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION This site is managed by the non-profit Hurricane Hunter Association. Please read these important disclaimers and site info. For media requests: please see our Public Affairs information page. Website designed by George Perina HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATIONHURRICANE HUNTERS FLIGHTS TODAYHURRICANE HUNTERS LIVE FEEDHURRICANE HUNTER LIVE It depends on the individual's rank and years of experience, and whether or not he or she is a full-time Hurricane Hunter (an Air Reserve Technician, or ART) or a regular reservist. ART salaries are anywhere from $30,000 to $70,000 per year, whereas a reservist will make between $8,000 and $15,000 in a HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Association. Photo Gallery - Hurricane Awareness. Click a thumbnail to expand an image, click the expanded image tominimize again.
HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATIONCOOL PIXCYBER FLIGHTFAQSSWAN 38 SCHOLARSHIPMEDIA REQUESTSMETEOROLOGY It's true! We fly right into the eye of a hurricane! The 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, known as the Hurricane Hunters of the Air Force Reserve, is one-of-a-kind: the only Department of Defense organization still flying into tropical storms and hurricanes--since 1944. Our ten Lockheed-Martin WC-130J aircraft and crews are part of the 403rd Wing, based at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Home Page. We have five different flying jobs at the Hurricane Hunters. ALL jobs are part of the Air Force Reserve. Half of the positions are part-time (traditional reservists), and half are full-time (Air Reserve Technicians). HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION The 53rd WRS uses the WC-130J to penetrate tropical storms. These aircraft are not reinforced in any way in fact the only differences between a WC-130J and a C-130J is the addition of two external fuel tanks (giving them longer range), a radiometer pod on the left wing and the two addition crew pallets in the cargo bay (see below for more information on specific weather instruments). HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION We have five different flying jobs at the Hurricane Hunters. ALL jobs are part of the Air Force Reserve. Half of the positions are part-time (traditional reservists), and half are full-time (Air Reserve Technicians). We have 40 pilots, 20 each of navigators, aerialreconnaissance
HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATIONHURRICANE HUNTERS NOAAHURRICANE HUNTERS PLANELIVE RECON HURRICANE Hurricane Hunters. Hurricane Hunting started on a dare in the middle of World War II, when Lt Col Joe Duckworth took an AT-6 Texan training aircraft into the eye of a hurricane. Our squadron traces its heritage back over 50 years, to the 3rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, Air Route, Medium on August 7, HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION The 53rd WRS is aligned under the 403rd Reserve Wing located at Keesler AFB in Biloxi, Mississippi. Although the airplanes and people are Department of Defense assets the units “primary tasking” command is the Department of Commerce. Although a strange set-up it has worked well. Tropical reconnaissance is governed by the NationalHurricane
HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION As USAF aircrew members, we are costantly training. Here, during a quiet deployment to St. Croix, USVI, crew members get survival refresher training. Santa arrives on a Hurricane Hunter C-130J. The weather loadmaster prepares to launch a sonde into a storm. A weather loadmaster takes an opportunity to rest during the long flight backfrom a storm.
HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION This site is managed by the non-profit Hurricane Hunter Association. Please read these important disclaimers and site info. For media requests: please see our Public Affairs information page. Website designed by George Perina HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATIONHURRICANE HUNTERS FLIGHTS TODAYHURRICANE HUNTERS LIVE FEEDHURRICANE HUNTER LIVE It depends on the individual's rank and years of experience, and whether or not he or she is a full-time Hurricane Hunter (an Air Reserve Technician, or ART) or a regular reservist. ART salaries are anywhere from $30,000 to $70,000 per year, whereas a reservist will make between $8,000 and $15,000 in a HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Association. Photo Gallery - Hurricane Awareness. Click a thumbnail to expand an image, click the expanded image tominimize again.
HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Home Page. This site is managed by the non-profit Hurricane Hunter Association. Please read these important disclaimers and site info. For media requests: please see our Public Affairs information page. Website designed by George PerinaGeorge Perina HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION This site is managed by the non-profit Hurricane Hunter Association. Please read these important disclaimers and site info. For media requests: please see our Public Affairs information page. Website designed by George PerinaGeorge Perina HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Dusk shot on the beach in Biloxi, MS near Keesler AFB. A thunderstorm on the beach near Pensacola NAS. The light of a sunset illuminates thunderstorm clouds over Mexico as we return from a Pacific hurricane flight. A line of cumulonimbus clouds over the Gulf of Mexico off central FL. A rainbow shows in the mist as we exit a rainband in astorm.
HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Association. Cyberflight Homeward Bound. During the entire six hours you spend inside the storm, the hurricane specialists at the National Hurricane Center in Miami are flooded with weather data measured automatically by the aircraft every 30 seconds. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Association. Photo Gallery - Best Images of the Hurricane Hunters. Click a thumbnail to expand an image, click the expanded image to minimize again. The sun setting over the eyewall of Typhoon Jangmi in the Pacific Ocean in 2008. A view looking up the eyewall of Hurricane Ivan in 2004. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Home Page. Click a thumbnail to expand an image, click the expanded image to minimize again. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION A cold airplane waits for us as we fly winter storm tracks in the Gulf of Alaska from Elmendorf AFB, AK. Heaters warm the props and engines to help minimize problems with the mechanical and hydraulic systems. Deicing the plane before takeoff for a winter storm track in Alaska. Before we got the J-model, we flew the old WC-130H, seen here on the HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Each page of numbers is zapped through a satellite link directly to the computers at the National Hurricane Center, and eagerly studied by the forecasters to see how large and how strong the storm is. Now the real fun begins. The weather officer looks down at the churning seas below, and estimates the strength of the wind by how the water looks. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION This site is managed by the non-profit Hurricane Hunter Association. Please read these important disclaimers and site info. For media requests: please see our Public Affairs information page. Website designed by George PerinaGeorge Perina HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION A recent addition to the ARWO's arsenal of weather equipment is the SFMR (stepped frequency microwave radiometer) that allows us to sample wind speed at the ocean surface as we fly along above the ocean at 5,000 or 10,000 feet. From here the ARWO is able to monitor the data, guide the pilots to the center of the storm using the wind speed and HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATIONCOOL PIXCYBER FLIGHTFAQSSWAN 38 SCHOLARSHIPMEDIA REQUESTSMETEOROLOGY It's true! We fly right into the eye of a hurricane! The 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, known as the Hurricane Hunters of the Air Force Reserve, is one-of-a-kind: the only Department of Defense organization still flying into tropical storms and hurricanes--since 1944. Our ten Lockheed-Martin WC-130J aircraft and crews are part of the 403rd Wing, based at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Home Page. We have five different flying jobs at the Hurricane Hunters. ALL jobs are part of the Air Force Reserve. Half of the positions are part-time (traditional reservists), and half are full-time (Air Reserve Technicians). HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION The 53rd WRS uses the WC-130J to penetrate tropical storms. These aircraft are not reinforced in any way in fact the only differences between a WC-130J and a C-130J is the addition of two external fuel tanks (giving them longer range), a radiometer pod on the left wing and the two addition crew pallets in the cargo bay (see below for more information on specific weather instruments). HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION We have five different flying jobs at the Hurricane Hunters. ALL jobs are part of the Air Force Reserve. Half of the positions are part-time (traditional reservists), and half are full-time (Air Reserve Technicians). We have 40 pilots, 20 each of navigators, aerialreconnaissance
HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATIONHURRICANE HUNTERS NOAAHURRICANE HUNTERS PLANELIVE RECON HURRICANE Hurricane Hunters. Hurricane Hunting started on a dare in the middle of World War II, when Lt Col Joe Duckworth took an AT-6 Texan training aircraft into the eye of a hurricane. Our squadron traces its heritage back over 50 years, to the 3rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, Air Route, Medium on August 7, HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION The 53rd WRS is aligned under the 403rd Reserve Wing located at Keesler AFB in Biloxi, Mississippi. Although the airplanes and people are Department of Defense assets the units “primary tasking” command is the Department of Commerce. Although a strange set-up it has worked well. Tropical reconnaissance is governed by the NationalHurricane
HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION As USAF aircrew members, we are costantly training. Here, during a quiet deployment to St. Croix, USVI, crew members get survival refresher training. Santa arrives on a Hurricane Hunter C-130J. The weather loadmaster prepares to launch a sonde into a storm. A weather loadmaster takes an opportunity to rest during the long flight backfrom a storm.
HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION This site is managed by the non-profit Hurricane Hunter Association. Please read these important disclaimers and site info. For media requests: please see our Public Affairs information page. Website designed by George Perina HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATIONHURRICANE HUNTERS FLIGHTS TODAYHURRICANE HUNTERS LIVE FEEDHURRICANE HUNTER LIVE It depends on the individual's rank and years of experience, and whether or not he or she is a full-time Hurricane Hunter (an Air Reserve Technician, or ART) or a regular reservist. ART salaries are anywhere from $30,000 to $70,000 per year, whereas a reservist will make between $8,000 and $15,000 in a HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Association. Photo Gallery - Hurricane Awareness. Click a thumbnail to expand an image, click the expanded image tominimize again.
HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATIONCOOL PIXCYBER FLIGHTFAQSSWAN 38 SCHOLARSHIPMEDIA REQUESTSMETEOROLOGY It's true! We fly right into the eye of a hurricane! The 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, known as the Hurricane Hunters of the Air Force Reserve, is one-of-a-kind: the only Department of Defense organization still flying into tropical storms and hurricanes--since 1944. Our ten Lockheed-Martin WC-130J aircraft and crews are part of the 403rd Wing, based at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Home Page. We have five different flying jobs at the Hurricane Hunters. ALL jobs are part of the Air Force Reserve. Half of the positions are part-time (traditional reservists), and half are full-time (Air Reserve Technicians). HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION The 53rd WRS uses the WC-130J to penetrate tropical storms. These aircraft are not reinforced in any way in fact the only differences between a WC-130J and a C-130J is the addition of two external fuel tanks (giving them longer range), a radiometer pod on the left wing and the two addition crew pallets in the cargo bay (see below for more information on specific weather instruments). HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION We have five different flying jobs at the Hurricane Hunters. ALL jobs are part of the Air Force Reserve. Half of the positions are part-time (traditional reservists), and half are full-time (Air Reserve Technicians). We have 40 pilots, 20 each of navigators, aerialreconnaissance
HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATIONHURRICANE HUNTERS NOAAHURRICANE HUNTERS PLANELIVE RECON HURRICANE Hurricane Hunters. Hurricane Hunting started on a dare in the middle of World War II, when Lt Col Joe Duckworth took an AT-6 Texan training aircraft into the eye of a hurricane. Our squadron traces its heritage back over 50 years, to the 3rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, Air Route, Medium on August 7, HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION The 53rd WRS is aligned under the 403rd Reserve Wing located at Keesler AFB in Biloxi, Mississippi. Although the airplanes and people are Department of Defense assets the units “primary tasking” command is the Department of Commerce. Although a strange set-up it has worked well. Tropical reconnaissance is governed by the NationalHurricane
HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION As USAF aircrew members, we are costantly training. Here, during a quiet deployment to St. Croix, USVI, crew members get survival refresher training. Santa arrives on a Hurricane Hunter C-130J. The weather loadmaster prepares to launch a sonde into a storm. A weather loadmaster takes an opportunity to rest during the long flight backfrom a storm.
HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION This site is managed by the non-profit Hurricane Hunter Association. Please read these important disclaimers and site info. For media requests: please see our Public Affairs information page. Website designed by George Perina HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATIONHURRICANE HUNTERS FLIGHTS TODAYHURRICANE HUNTERS LIVE FEEDHURRICANE HUNTER LIVE It depends on the individual's rank and years of experience, and whether or not he or she is a full-time Hurricane Hunter (an Air Reserve Technician, or ART) or a regular reservist. ART salaries are anywhere from $30,000 to $70,000 per year, whereas a reservist will make between $8,000 and $15,000 in a HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Association. Photo Gallery - Hurricane Awareness. Click a thumbnail to expand an image, click the expanded image tominimize again.
HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Home Page. This site is managed by the non-profit Hurricane Hunter Association. Please read these important disclaimers and site info. For media requests: please see our Public Affairs information page. Website designed by George PerinaGeorge Perina HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION This site is managed by the non-profit Hurricane Hunter Association. Please read these important disclaimers and site info. For media requests: please see our Public Affairs information page. Website designed by George PerinaGeorge Perina HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Dusk shot on the beach in Biloxi, MS near Keesler AFB. A thunderstorm on the beach near Pensacola NAS. The light of a sunset illuminates thunderstorm clouds over Mexico as we return from a Pacific hurricane flight. A line of cumulonimbus clouds over the Gulf of Mexico off central FL. A rainbow shows in the mist as we exit a rainband in astorm.
HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Association. Cyberflight Homeward Bound. During the entire six hours you spend inside the storm, the hurricane specialists at the National Hurricane Center in Miami are flooded with weather data measured automatically by the aircraft every 30 seconds. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Association. Photo Gallery - Best Images of the Hurricane Hunters. Click a thumbnail to expand an image, click the expanded image to minimize again. The sun setting over the eyewall of Typhoon Jangmi in the Pacific Ocean in 2008. A view looking up the eyewall of Hurricane Ivan in 2004. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Home Page. Click a thumbnail to expand an image, click the expanded image to minimize again. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION A cold airplane waits for us as we fly winter storm tracks in the Gulf of Alaska from Elmendorf AFB, AK. Heaters warm the props and engines to help minimize problems with the mechanical and hydraulic systems. Deicing the plane before takeoff for a winter storm track in Alaska. Before we got the J-model, we flew the old WC-130H, seen here on the HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Each page of numbers is zapped through a satellite link directly to the computers at the National Hurricane Center, and eagerly studied by the forecasters to see how large and how strong the storm is. Now the real fun begins. The weather officer looks down at the churning seas below, and estimates the strength of the wind by how the water looks. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION This site is managed by the non-profit Hurricane Hunter Association. Please read these important disclaimers and site info. For media requests: please see our Public Affairs information page. Website designed by George PerinaGeorge Perina HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION A recent addition to the ARWO's arsenal of weather equipment is the SFMR (stepped frequency microwave radiometer) that allows us to sample wind speed at the ocean surface as we fly along above the ocean at 5,000 or 10,000 feet. From here the ARWO is able to monitor the data, guide the pilots to the center of the storm using the wind speed and HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATIONCOOL PIXCYBER FLIGHTFAQSSWAN 38 SCHOLARSHIPMEDIA REQUESTSMETEOROLOGY It's true! We fly right into the eye of a hurricane! The 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, known as the Hurricane Hunters of the Air Force Reserve, is one-of-a-kind: the only Department of Defense organization still flying into tropical storms and hurricanes--since 1944. Our ten Lockheed-Martin WC-130J aircraft and crews are part of the 403rd Wing, based at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Home Page. We have five different flying jobs at the Hurricane Hunters. ALL jobs are part of the Air Force Reserve. Half of the positions are part-time (traditional reservists), and half are full-time (Air Reserve Technicians). HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION The 53rd WRS uses the WC-130J to penetrate tropical storms. These aircraft are not reinforced in any way in fact the only differences between a WC-130J and a C-130J is the addition of two external fuel tanks (giving them longer range), a radiometer pod on the left wing and the two addition crew pallets in the cargo bay (see below for more information on specific weather instruments). HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Weather Loadmaster/Dropsonde Systems Operator: The "load" actually has two jobs on the WC-130. They are a Loadmaster, which requires making sure everything is loaded and tied down properly in the cargo compartment, as well as scanning the exterior of the airplane during engine start, and monitoring the health of the plane during the flight by inspecting the engines and other aircraft systems. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATIONHURRICANE HUNTERS NOAAHURRICANE HUNTERS PLANELIVE RECON HURRICANE Hurricane Hunting started on a dare in the middle of World War II, when Lt Col Joe Duckworth took an AT-6 Texan training aircraft into the eye of a hurricane. Our squadron traces its heritage back over 50 years, to the 3rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, Air Route, Mediumon August 7, 1944.
HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Home Page. The primary mission of the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron (53rd WRS) is to conduct tropical storm reconnaissance. The 53rd WRS is aligned under the 403rd Reserve Wing located at Keesler AFB in Biloxi, Mississippi. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Home Page. Click a thumbnail to expand an image, click the expanded image to minimize again. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION This site is managed by the non-profit Hurricane Hunter Association. Please read these important disclaimers and site info. For media requests: please see our Public Affairs information page. Website designed by George Perina HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATIONHURRICANE HUNTERS FLIGHTS TODAYHURRICANE HUNTERS LIVE FEEDHURRICANE HUNTER LIVE Hurricane Hunters Home Page. On many of our flights, we allow media such as TV crews, newspaper reporters, and magazine photographers to fly with us to experience and report to HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION "Teal Four One, Keesler Tower. Winds 180 at 5, altimeter 29.95. cleared for takeoff runway two one. Climb and maintain two thousand,runway heading."
HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATIONCOOL PIXCYBER FLIGHTFAQSSWAN 38 SCHOLARSHIPMEDIA REQUESTSMETEOROLOGY It's true! We fly right into the eye of a hurricane! The 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, known as the Hurricane Hunters of the Air Force Reserve, is one-of-a-kind: the only Department of Defense organization still flying into tropical storms and hurricanes--since 1944. Our ten Lockheed-Martin WC-130J aircraft and crews are part of the 403rd Wing, based at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Home Page. We have five different flying jobs at the Hurricane Hunters. ALL jobs are part of the Air Force Reserve. Half of the positions are part-time (traditional reservists), and half are full-time (Air Reserve Technicians). HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION The 53rd WRS uses the WC-130J to penetrate tropical storms. These aircraft are not reinforced in any way in fact the only differences between a WC-130J and a C-130J is the addition of two external fuel tanks (giving them longer range), a radiometer pod on the left wing and the two addition crew pallets in the cargo bay (see below for more information on specific weather instruments). HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION We have five different flying jobs at the Hurricane Hunters. ALL jobs are part of the Air Force Reserve. Half of the positions are part-time (traditional reservists), and half are full-time (Air Reserve Technicians). We have 40 pilots, 20 each of navigators, aerialreconnaissance
HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATIONHURRICANE HUNTERS NOAAHURRICANE HUNTERS PLANELIVE RECON HURRICANE Hurricane Hunters. Hurricane Hunting started on a dare in the middle of World War II, when Lt Col Joe Duckworth took an AT-6 Texan training aircraft into the eye of a hurricane. Our squadron traces its heritage back over 50 years, to the 3rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, Air Route, Medium on August 7, HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION The 53rd WRS is aligned under the 403rd Reserve Wing located at Keesler AFB in Biloxi, Mississippi. Although the airplanes and people are Department of Defense assets the units “primary tasking” command is the Department of Commerce. Although a strange set-up it has worked well. Tropical reconnaissance is governed by the NationalHurricane
HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION As USAF aircrew members, we are costantly training. Here, during a quiet deployment to St. Croix, USVI, crew members get survival refresher training. Santa arrives on a Hurricane Hunter C-130J. The weather loadmaster prepares to launch a sonde into a storm. A weather loadmaster takes an opportunity to rest during the long flight backfrom a storm.
HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION This site is managed by the non-profit Hurricane Hunter Association. Please read these important disclaimers and site info. For media requests: please see our Public Affairs information page. Website designed by George Perina HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATIONHURRICANE HUNTERS FLIGHTS TODAYHURRICANE HUNTERS LIVE FEEDHURRICANE HUNTER LIVE It depends on the individual's rank and years of experience, and whether or not he or she is a full-time Hurricane Hunter (an Air Reserve Technician, or ART) or a regular reservist. ART salaries are anywhere from $30,000 to $70,000 per year, whereas a reservist will make between $8,000 and $15,000 in a HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Association. Photo Gallery - Hurricane Awareness. Click a thumbnail to expand an image, click the expanded image tominimize again.
HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Home Page. This site is managed by the non-profit Hurricane Hunter Association. Please read these important disclaimers and site info. For media requests: please see our Public Affairs information page. Website designed by George PerinaGeorge Perina HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION This site is managed by the non-profit Hurricane Hunter Association. Please read these important disclaimers and site info. For media requests: please see our Public Affairs information page. Website designed by George PerinaGeorge Perina HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Dusk shot on the beach in Biloxi, MS near Keesler AFB. A thunderstorm on the beach near Pensacola NAS. The light of a sunset illuminates thunderstorm clouds over Mexico as we return from a Pacific hurricane flight. A line of cumulonimbus clouds over the Gulf of Mexico off central FL. A rainbow shows in the mist as we exit a rainband in astorm.
HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Association. Cyberflight Homeward Bound. During the entire six hours you spend inside the storm, the hurricane specialists at the National Hurricane Center in Miami are flooded with weather data measured automatically by the aircraft every 30 seconds. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Association. Photo Gallery - Best Images of the Hurricane Hunters. Click a thumbnail to expand an image, click the expanded image to minimize again. The sun setting over the eyewall of Typhoon Jangmi in the Pacific Ocean in 2008. A view looking up the eyewall of Hurricane Ivan in 2004. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Hurricane Hunters Home Page. Click a thumbnail to expand an image, click the expanded image to minimize again. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION A cold airplane waits for us as we fly winter storm tracks in the Gulf of Alaska from Elmendorf AFB, AK. Heaters warm the props and engines to help minimize problems with the mechanical and hydraulic systems. Deicing the plane before takeoff for a winter storm track in Alaska. Before we got the J-model, we flew the old WC-130H, seen here on the HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION Each page of numbers is zapped through a satellite link directly to the computers at the National Hurricane Center, and eagerly studied by the forecasters to see how large and how strong the storm is. Now the real fun begins. The weather officer looks down at the churning seas below, and estimates the strength of the wind by how the water looks. HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION This site is managed by the non-profit Hurricane Hunter Association. Please read these important disclaimers and site info. For media requests: please see our Public Affairs information page. Website designed by George PerinaGeorge Perina HURRICANE HUNTERS ASSOCIATION A recent addition to the ARWO's arsenal of weather equipment is the SFMR (stepped frequency microwave radiometer) that allows us to sample wind speed at the ocean surface as we fly along above the ocean at 5,000 or 10,000 feet. From here the ARWO is able to monitor the data, guide the pilots to the center of the storm using the wind speed and Cool Pix | Cyber Flight | FAQs | Swan 38 Scholarship | Media Requests | Meteorology | Home Welcome to the home of the world famous “Hurricane Hunters” IT'S TRUE! WE FLY RIGHT INTO THE EYE OF A HURRICANE! The 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, known as the Hurricane Hunters of the AIR FORCE RESERVE , is one-of-a-kind: the only DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE organization still flying into tropical storms and hurricanes--since 1944. Our ten Lockheed-Martin WC-130J aircraft and crews are part of the 403RD WING , based at KEESLER AIR FORCE BASE in Biloxi, Mississippi. Cursor over to freeze the slideshow. Follow Us on Instagram and Twitter This site is managed by the non-profit Hurricane Hunter Association. Please read these important disclaimers and site info. For media requests: please see our Public Affairsinformation page.
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