The Hurricane Hunters

by Ivan Ray Tannehill

Official Defense Department Photocopy
Positions of crew members in B-29 on hurricane mission.

AFT ENTRANCE HATCH RADIO OPERATOR RIGHT SCANNER (CREW CHIEF) RADIOSONDE OPERATOR LEFT SCANNER (DROPSONDE OPERATOR) ENGINEER COPILOT WEATHER OBSERVER NAVIGATOR RADAR OPERATOR FORWARD ENTRANCE HATCH PILOT

Part of scope showing typhoon by radar. Eye is above center at right with spiral bands showing. Radar is located at center of picture with surrounding clouds showing as dense white mass due to heavy nearby echo return. Echo from opposite side of typhoon is faint.

Official U. S. Navy Photograph
Looking down into the eye of Hurricane Edna (foreground) on September 7, 1954.

U. S. Air Force Photo
Looking down at the central region of Typhoon Marge in 1951.

Weather officer in nose of aircraft talking to pilot (left) and radar operator.