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j ^ Jf Hurricane Hunters ] Since I 944 , the United States Air Force has studied hurricanes by sending a special team , called the Hurricane Hunters , ^ 0 fly into the eye of the hurricane * . 1 Read the following article to find out what Hurricane Hunters do . Flying Into the Eye of the Storm thinks that a hurricane may strike . Who are the Hurricane Hunters ? They are men and women who fly right into the eye of the hurricane to get information about it . Sometimes the clouds and rain are so heavy that the crew cannot see the wings of the airplane . The bad weather conditions make the flights very dangerous . The planes have a crew that includes a pilot , a navigator , a weather technician and a weather officer or meteorologist . The pilot handles the flight controls and the navigator tracks the 2 In your notebook , put the sentences in the correct order to get a summary about how hurricane information is collected and used . The dropsonde radios information to the airplane . The National Hurricane Center makes predictions about the direction the hurricane is going in . The Hurricane Hunters take off from the airbase . The Weather Officer checks the information on board the airplane . The dropsonde is dropped out of the airplane . The information is sent from the airplane to the National Hurricane Center . Begin your summary with the following sentence : The Hurricane Hunters takeoff from the alrbaee . .. . 3 In your opinion , what skills and qualities should each crew member have ? Discuss . 4 Which of the crew members do you think is most important ? Discuss . 5 Which job ( if any ) would you choose if you had a chance to go on the flight ? Discuss . * the eye of the hurricane — the center of the hurricane . * dropsonde —a weather instrument which is attached to a parachute . aircraft's position . The weather technician drops the dropsonde * from the airplane . As the dropsonde falls , it radios back to the airplane information about the temperature , pressure and winds inside the storm . The weather officer checks the information and then sends it by computer to the National Hurricane Center . The information received by the Center is used to make predictions about the size and strength of the hurricane and its direction . As a result , it becomes possible to warn people about coming storms , so that they can be prepared .
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