Wednesday, October 29, 2025

US Air Force video shows the eye of Hurricane Melissa, and the "Stadium Effect". Amazing. I would love to be on that flight.

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  1. Big question. Did they drop a load of dry ice on it?

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  2. You'd surely love to be there for that moment, but the ride in and the ride out through the hurricane eye wall are...interesting. Videos of those flights lead me to believe the best way to experience them is from the comfort of your living room, but YMMV.

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    1. Could something like a high performance fighter drop down into the eye from 70,000 ft? that would be interesting.

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    2. Yes, but I bet they'd have to bank to stay inside it for long. They'd run out of clear air in seconds in level flight at normal speeds, and stooging around inside the eye near stall speed wouldn't be very bright.

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  3. That is an impressive eye wall. I wonder how high off sea level it rose.
    -lg

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  4. Mother Nature, she don't mess around.

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