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Fifth and final pass through Hurricane Melissa for our crew today. Just after noon entering from the NW corner exiting SE.
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Tropical Cowboy of Danger
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Tropical Cowboy of Danger
@FlynonymousWX
Amateur Photog & 53d WRS/USAF Hurricane Hunter. Tweets, retweets & vague insinuations mostly mine and don’t represent DoW/DoD officially or unofficially
Gulf Coast of Mississippi
Joined September 2019
- A thread of videos from today’s flight into Hurricane Melissa In this first one we are entering from the southeast just after sunrise and the bright arc on the far northwest eye wall is the light just beginning to make it over the top from behind us.
00:00 - Replying to @FlynonymousWXThird pass through Melissa. GoPro in side window as different camera looking forward shooting in ultra high res 8k. Not sure when that might get processed as the file turned out ridiculous. Barely had HD space for it and MacBook Pro promptly chocked when I tried to edit it
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00:00- Hurricane Melissa still photo thread… most of these are taken with a @CanonUSApro R5 with 11mm lens but a few were taken with my iPhone. If you are media and want to use them please go look on DVIDs.
- One more pic looking up in the eye of #HurricaneLee this evening as we turned outbound on the final pass. Dunno what the height of the top was but it was up there.
- Replying to @FlynonymousWXThe sea surface is always interesting in the eye with waves going different directions
00:00 - Replying to @FlynonymousWXUncropped and higher res version of the first pass through Melissa yesterday morning.
00:00 - Replying to @FlynonymousWXSecond pass through Hurricane Melissa entering from the southwest side. Passed NOAA in the eye wall as they headed outbound for home. Obviously a very powerful storm but a relatively straightforward one on this flight. Much less nasty meso activity than 36 hours ago.
00:00 - This afternoon there were a couple Navy Seahawks doing practice water drops just off the shore of NAS North Island / Coronado… a thread
- Replying to @FlynonymousWXAnother view looking down in the eye… got a nice swirl of clouds going on
00:00 - Random photo thread… I had some time today on a six hour flight so I pulled out my laptop and a HD of pics from the mid 2000s. It’s possible I posted some of these before but tried to pick previously unseen from the archive. RC-135S Cobra Ball at Al Udeid in 2007
- Replying to @FlynonymousWXFourth pass through Melissa this morning, another side view due to my hairbrained attempt to shoot 8k video out the front.
00:00 - Another photo thread from the 2000s… it was a long flight yesterday so I went through and found some more decent shots. Marine CH-46 at Al Asad in 2006
