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09 Apr, 2008

Pilotless Aircraft Flies Toward Eye of Hurricane for First Time

Posted by: RSS In: Noaa.gov

A pilotless hurricane hunter is being flown by remote control into hurricane force winds for the first time to give researchers from NOAA and NASA a real time, low altitude look at a storm with hurricane category 1 winds hovering around 80 miles per hour.

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