Gathering data from planes inside hurricanes is a dangerous game and 52 lives have been lost since operations began in 1944.

Just over 70 years ago, the only Hurricane Hunter plane to go down in the Atlantic basin crashed during Hurricane Janet. To ...

The brave men and woman onboard NOAA’s Hurricane Hunter airplanes need to remain cool, calm and collected during extreme ...

Melissa is the fifth-most intense Atlantic basin hurricane on record by pressure and the strongest such hurricane to make ...

The NOAA's Aircraft Operations Center captured video aboard its Lockheed WP-3D Orion aircraft, Kermit, as it was buffeted by ...

The U.S. Air Force Reserve's 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, known as the "Hurricane Hunters," were forced to turn back ...

A U.S. Air Force Reserve crew from the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, known as the “Hurricane Hunters,” flew through ...

Hurricane Melissa is a Category 5 storm as of the most recent update from the NHC, with maximum sustained wind gusts reaching ...

The U.S. Air Force’s 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron captured footage of the towering walls inside the eye of Category 5 ...

The U.S. Air Force Reserve's "Hurricane Hunters" squadron flew into Hurricane Melissa to gather data for National Hurricane ...

Have you ever wondered what it's like in the eye of a hurricane? It's another day on the job if you ask the aviation specialists commonly known as Hurricane Hunters. Hurricane Hunters fly turboprop ...