Lt. Lindsey Norman, Capt. Kristie Twining and Lt. Cmdr. Rebecca Waddington flew their first Hurricane Hunters mission together on Thursday.
, teams of pilots at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are charged with flying right up to the strengthening storm to gather data to help keep people safe — and they love it.
“It was great,” said Norman in an interview with Know Your Value. Norman is currently training to pilot a G-IV plane. “It was my first hurricane mission in the aircraft, and I was fortunate to fly with Capt. Twining and Lt. Cmdr. Waddington. I’ve been working with them for five years. They’ve been mentors to me.”
Once over the storm, the Hurricane Hunters drop cylindrical monitoring devices called “dropsondes,” which gather measurements like humidity, pressure, temperature and wind speed. In 2018, Twining and Waddington comprised the first ever all-women Hurricane Hunter team when they flew a G-IV over Hurricane Hector in Hawaii.
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