for those interested.....and while we have some down time in the tropics.... Here is the latest on the first unmanned flight into Hurricane Ophelia...
(pretty interesting data images)
http://www.aerosonde.com/drawarticle/127
**note too that this project is over....They are heading to Guam for another project**** (areosonde)

Also, this past friday. Max and Gen. Johnson (NWS dir) went before the House Science Committe for the Hurricane Forecasting.... it's playing on C-Span...... some intersting information come out of the hearing..... including the Gulf Coast strikes....and what went wrong and right.... and max gave some good information and said he thinks he did all he thought was possible from his point of view..... There was one Rep. (Gordon) that got down and dirty and he showed an emailed leaked within the last month about a new memo in the NWS right now, post the stroms... NO ONE can give an interview to media/others, until it's cleared through to the top command... (headquaters NOAA)... not sure why yet...it's interesting.....

back to max... it is on file that Max even made personal phone calls (late at night) two nights before landfall of katrina to the Govs. of LA, MS, FL, and the New Orleans Mayor, that "this is going to be bad".... he later said he wanted to make sure that when he went to sleep, he believed he did everything he thought was possible to get the message out.... .

Also i think i heard that there may be a NEW plane in the budget for the AOML next year... for Hurricane Recon..... Although its noted there is a BILLION dollar difference between the House and Senate for the NOAA budget next year... from what i have read.... but sounds like all the members are now for any help/money NOAA needs, gets there support......

**also noted some of images max showed off... the ones he sayes he uses... had alot of Ramdis sat shots

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Anyway... this may not belong to this area...thought it would be nice to share.... this may be sent to the yard or deleted...