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Stormchasers: The Hurricane Hunters and Their Fateful Flight into Hurricane Janet David Toomey

Stormchasers: The Hurricane Hunters and Their Fateful Flight into Hurricane Janet By David Toomey

Stormchasers: The Hurricane Hunters and Their Fateful Flight into Hurricane Janet by David Toomey


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Summary

In September 1955, Navy Lieutenant Commander Grover B. Windham and his crew of eight flew into the eye of Hurricane Janet - a routine weather reconnaissance mission from which they never returned. Drawing from Navy documents and interviews this book reconstructs the ill-fated mission.

Stormchasers: The Hurricane Hunters and Their Fateful Flight into Hurricane Janet Summary

Stormchasers: The Hurricane Hunters and Their Fateful Flight into Hurricane Janet by David Toomey

Fifty years after Isaac's Storm, a riveting story of the first Hurricane Hunters, and the one crew who paid the ultimate price. In September 1955, Navy Lieutenant Commander Grover B. Windham and a crew of eight flew out of Guantanamo Bay into the eye of Hurricane Janet swirling in the Caribbean: a routine weather reconnaissance mission from which they never returned. In the wake of World War II, the Air Force and the Navy had discovered a new civilian arena where daring pilots could test their courage and skill. These Hurricane Hunters flew into raging storms to gauge their strength and predict their paths. Without computer, global positioning, or satellite support, they relied on rudimentary radar systems to locate the hurricane's eye and estimated the drift of their aircraft by looking at windblown waves below. Drawing from Navy documents and interviews with members of the squadron and relatives of the crew, Stormchasers reconstructs the ill-fated mission of Windham's crew from preflight checks to the chilling moment of their final transmission. 16 pages of b/w photographs.

About David Toomey

David Toomey is a professor of English and director of the Professional Writing and Technical Communication Program at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He lives in Amherst.

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GOR005265619
9780393020007
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Stormchasers: The Hurricane Hunters and Their Fateful Flight into Hurricane Janet by David Toomey
Used - Very Good
Hardback
WW Norton & Co
20020717
320
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