x-y-no wrote:Matt-hurricanewatcher wrote:I heard those kind of planes or something like them are flying from a America alway across the global to fight the war in Iraq. Why can't we have one of those do recon?
Hmm ... don't think I'd want to be the pilot who had to fly a B2 through the eyewall of a hurricane ...
Ha... no doubt! A B2 can't even go through a little rainshower without problems.
Most of the longer range aircraft that the military uses to fly are no where strong enough to fly through a tropical cyclone. The WC-130 is a powerhouse aircraft that can take the abuse, but in exchange, it can only go so far.
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, bob sheets said they dont fly into them because they were affraid that the combination of the wind and driving rain may stall the engines.. he said that during a speech during one of the sessions. not sure if that was meant to be smart, but mark and i sure took it as a real shot at those guys... this all comes from talk about stopping the air force from flying into the storms.. that was discussed a while back.. who knows...
NO! Please no! You want to talk about a Bay of Bengal type magnification of storm surge, they'd be 80 feet under in Baltimore's Inner Harbor and probably still get a 8 foot surge in downtown DC on the Tidal Potomac, living 45 miles WSW of DC, I'd like to see something else on the news before October ends.
