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Major Chuck Colman, right, WC-130 Hercules aircraft commander, offers retired Lieutenant Colonel O'Hair a co-pilot's view of hurricane hunting in the 1980s. O'Hair was a member of the first aircrew to penetrate a hurricane four decades ago. AIRMAN Magazine-December 1984

First LT. Jill James, a WC-130 Hercules aircraft pilot from the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron "Hurricane Hunters", assist retired LT. COL. Ralph O'Hair with his life preserver. O'Hair was a member of the first aircrew to penetrate a hurricane forty years ago

USAF Captain Brian K. LeTourneau, Commander and pilot and First Lieutenant Scott J. Spitzer sit at the controls of their WC-130 Hercules aircraft from the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, (Hurricane Hunters) Keesler AFB, Mississippi while flying a weather reconnaissance mission inside the eye of Hurricane Opal. From AIRMAN Magazine December 1995 article "Hunting Season"

US Air Force MASTER Sergeant Robert Perry and Technical Sergeant Tony Hlavac (seated) assigned to the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, Keesler AFB, Mississippi monitor data from a parachuting weather sensor from inside a USAF WC-130 Hercules aircraft while flying inside the eye of Hurricane Opal. From AIRMAN Magazine December 1995 article "Hunting Season"

U.S. Air Force TECH. SGT. Scott Butler, a Weather Technician assigned to the 90th Fighter Squadron, Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska, sets up a tactical meteorological satellite, used to down load weather charts, while deployed with the 3rd Air Expeditionary Group at Kwang-Ju Air Base, Republic of Korea on Sept. 9, 2004. (U.S. Air Force PHOTO by TECH SGT. Corey A Clements) (Released)

COL Edwin L. Harvey, Headquarters, Tactical Air Command, retrieves his belongings as he prepares to leave the crash site of his Grumman AA-1B aircraft near Andrews Air Force Base. Harvey who was piloting the plane and sustained minor injuries, is being accompanied by members of the 1ST Helicopter Squadron

US Air Force (USAF) Technical Sergeant (TSGT) Anthony Downs, a fireman assigned to Shaw Air Force Base (AFB), South Carolina (SC), helps set a scene for an annual hurricane exercise. The exercise is intended to get the 20th Fighter Wing (FW) ready and bring a level of awareness to base personnel

US Air Force (USAF) Captain (CPT) Todd Robbins (background), a pilot assigned to the 36th Fighter Squadron (FS), wears his Nuclear, Biological, Chemical (NBC) gear as he adjusts the headgear of USAF CPT Thomas Obrochta, as they prepare for the decontamination process during Exercise BEVERLY BULLDOG 02-02, at Osan Air Base (AB) Korea

US Air Force (USAF) AIRMAN First Class (A1C) Kevin Bruce, with the Patrick Air Force Base (AFB), Florida (FL), 45th Space Wing (SW) Civil Engineering electrical section, gather supplies and prepositions them in emergency vehicles for an upcoming hurricane exercise

Retired Lieutenant Colonel O'Hair inserts a weather measurement device as Technical Sergeant Brian Higgins, a drop sonde operator, provides instruction. O'Hair was a member of the first aircrew to penetrate a hurricane four decades ago. AIRMAN Magazine-December 1984

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label_outline Explore Magazine December, Sonde, Airman Magazine December

Paratroopers from D Battery, 319th Field Artillery, land at the drop zone during NATO Exercise ARDENT GROUND '87. Members of the Allied Command Europe Mobile Force from Belgium, the Netherlands, West Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, the United Kingdom and the United States are participating in the live artillery/air exercise being staged on Salisbury Plain Training Area in Wiltshire

Interior view of the laser device compartment aboard the NKC-135 airborne laser laboratory (ALL) aircraft in flight. In the foreground is the laser device and the laser fuel tanks are in the background

US Marine Corps (USMC) Marines from 1ST Marine Division (MAR DIV), 1ST Combat Engineers Battalion (CEB), stand in line to get their hair cut at Camp Matilda during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

S42-205-013 - STS-042 - SAMS - Public domain NASA photogrpaph

Members of a minehunting unit prepare to lower the sonar device of an AQS-14 minehunting system from a Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron 14 (HM-14) MH-53E Sea Dragon helicopter during operations off the coast of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The system is being used to locate inert mines planted by U.S. forces as part of a minehunting exercise during Operation Desert Shield

STS069-302-026 - STS-069 - DTO 914 - SLAMMDE

COMPLETE BUBBLE DISSOLUTION DROP PACKAGE - BUBBLE INJECTION MECHANISM AND CONTAINER

Secretary Mel Martinez, Staff Sampling Personal Transportation Device

A view of the NASA Space Shuttle Program Solid Rocket Booster Deceleration Subsystem, after a parachute drop test at the National Parachute Test Range

Airmen assist LTC Bob Crowder, from the 9th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing, put on his high-pressure suit. LTC Crowder will fly an SR-71 Blackbird aircraft which will be refueled by a KC-10 Extender aircraft during testing

GLOBAL PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENT (GPM) SPACECRAFT BATTERY TEST

STS067-336-005 - STS-067 - Jernigan poses in front of windows with free-floating hair

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lieutenant colonel lieutenant colonel hair inserts hair inserts weather measurement device weather measurement device technical sergeant brian higgins technical sergeant brian higgins drop sonde operator drop sonde operator instruction member aircrew first aircrew hurricane decades hurricane four decades airman magazine december airman magazine december high resolution us national archives