PHOTOS: Hurricane hunters arrive at Orlando Executive; 2017 awareness tour
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Hurricane Awareness Tour 2017 - Air Force's WC-130 (in front) NOAA's G- IV (left)
Hurricane Awareness Tour 2017 - Gracie Buchwald's husband was one of the first ones to fly through storms in the 1940s!!
Hurricane Awareness Tour 2017 - Air Force Meteorologist interacts with kids.
Hurricane Awareness Tour 2017 - Gracie Buchwald's husband was one of the first ones to fly through storms in the 1940s. She was visiting with their daughter Tony.
Hurricane Awareness Tour 2017 - Cooling off!
Hurricane Awareness Tour 2017 -Air Force's WC 130J.
Hurricane Awareness Tour 2017 - Inside the Hurricane hunter planes.
Hurricane Awareness Tour 2017 - AF impressive WC 130J, nicknamed Hercules
Hurricane Awareness Tour 2017 - WC 130 is an enormous plane that flies through a storm or hurricane, researching winds, temperatures, pressure.
Hurricane Awareness Tour 2017 - Inside of NOAA's G-IV (GONZO). Lots of research done inside this plane flying at 45,000 feet altitude.
Hurricane Awareness Tour 2017 - NOAA's hurricane hunter interacting with the visitors at Orlando Executive Airport, explaining the dropsonde. Once dropped, it measures temperature, winds, pressure as it drops through the lower levels of a storm.
Hurricane Awareness Tour 2017 - Kids were able to explore the inside of the Air Force's WC-130 plane.
Hurricane Awareness Tour 2017 - Inside the Air Force's WC-130 cockpit.
Hurricane Awareness Tour 2017 - Inside the Air Force's WC-130 there is this small cupula jsut above the cockpit.
Hurricane Awareness Tour 2017 - Air Force's WC-130 as soon as visitors got in through the cargo area, interesting objects were seen.
Hurricane Awareness Tour 2017 - NOAA's hurricane hunter plane G-IV plane. There is Ms. Piggy, Kermit and Gonzo!
Hurricane Awareness Tour 2017 - visitors at Orlando Executive Airport
Local officials also visited the airport for the public event on May 11, 2017
Hurricane Awareness Tour 2017 - Air Force's WC-130. This plane flies right through the storm/hurricane at 5000 to 10000 feet altitude
Hurricane Awareness Tour 2017 - entering the cargo area of the Air Force's WC-130.
Hurricane Awareness Tour 2017 - NOAA's hurricane hunter plane, G-IV. This plane flies over the storms/hurricane. It's mainly considered a research plane. Flying at 45,000 feet.
At the Hurricane Awareness Tour 2017, WFTV certified meteorologist Brian Shields and his kids also checked out this great annual event. This year's tour made stops along the Eastern Seaboard.
Hurricane Awareness Tour 2017 - Air Force's WC-130. This plane flies right through the storm/hurricane at 5000 to 10000 feet altitude
Hurricane Awareness Tour 2017 - Inside Air Force's WC-130. This is where the flight's meteorologist seats while they fly throught the storm. He/she collects and verifies the data -- and transmits it back to the National Hurricane Center in Miami.
Hurricane Awareness Tour 2017 - NOAA's hurricane hunter. The "Cheetah" of the hunter planes. Slick and fast!
Hurricane Awareness Tour 2017 - NOAA's hurricane hunter at Orlando Executive Airport. This planes flies at 45,000 feet altitude.
Hurricane Awareness Tour 2017 - Air Force's WC-130, flies right through the storm/hurricane at 5000 to 10000 feet altitude, it's a cargo/war plane. During the off season it flies through winter storms over the Pacific- also researching them.
Hurricane Awareness Tour 2017 - Hundreds of kids visited the Hurricane Hunter planes to have a one of kind experience.
Hurricane Awareness Tour 2017 - WFTV digital certified meteorologist Irene Sans, covered this event on our digital platforms.
Hurricane Awareness Tour 2017 - Air Force's WC-130. This plane flies right through the storm/hurricane at 5000 to 10000 feet altitude
Hurricane Awareness Tour 2017 - NOAA's hurricane hunter crew interacting with the visitors at Orlando Executive Airport
Hurricane Awareness Tour 2017 - People in line waiting to check out the inside of the WC-130 in person!
