Storm Hunter
(Veteran Storm Chaser)
Thu Jul 14 2005 10:25 PM
Re: not due west...a wobble

Yeah i see that primary mission is IFEX (Intensity Forecast EXperiment) 2005, i see that noaa plans a flight for this too now. i mean two Flights!

aircraft missions
The NOAA N43RF will fly a tropical cyclone genesis mission as part of IFEX in conjunction with the NASA ER-2 jet. The P3 will leave San Jose, Costa Rica at 1:00 AM EDT and will recover at San Jose, Costa Rica by 10:00 AM EDT.

NOAA 42 and 43 both planned for missions

also on the umanned page (aerosonde.com)....pretty cool pictures from down there.... see any friends, clark?


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