Martha Watkins Gilkes - Hurricane Hunting!!

Martha Watkins Gilkes
Flying with the
HURRICANE HUNTERS
~ HURRICANE FABIAN ~
September 2003

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Martha during the flight...

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Inside the C-130..

Hours of boredom punctuated by moments of terror (this was obviously not a moment of terror, as Martha downloads digital camera pics into notebook computer).

A great overview of the inside of this large airplane.

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Top of the eye wall...

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Martha holding Drop Sonde

...inside the eye of Category 4 hurricane Fabian.

...instrument used to measure hurricane info, with Drop Sonde Officer MSgt. Lee Snyder, most senior Hurricane Hunter (featured in "Wild is the wind", below).

Special Hurricane Hunters Features by Martha Watkins Gilkes:

Wild is the Wind (published August 2002)
(Free Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader required)
The Hurricane Hunters (published June 1996)

(Both stories courtesy of THE LIAT ISLANDER MAGAZINE, the inflight magazine of LIAT - The Caribbean Airline)

Summary of my flight through Hurricane Fabian
(RTF file, no macros or viruses, can be opened with almost any word processor)

*Here are some other books on the same subject, from Amazon.com:*
Stormchasers: The Hurricane Hunters and Their Fateful Flight into Hurricane Janet	Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History	2001 Severe Weather and Storms Photo Gallery and Image Files from the NOAA	The Ship and the Storm: Hurricane Mitch and the Loss of the Fantome	Hurricane Hunters (Aircraft)	Hurricane Hunters and Tornado Chasers: Life in the Eye of the Storm (Extreme Careers)

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by David Toomey	by Erik Larson, Isaac Monroe Cline	CD-ROM by World Spaceflight News (Sept2001)	by Jim Carrier	by Timothy R. Gaffney	by Lois Sakany, Dana Asher