
Colonel Duckworth (1903-1962) was the first person to purposely fly through the eye of a hurricane in 1943. Bill Murray of Alabamawx.com wrote an interesting post about that event that occurred 64 years ago this week.
Above is a photo of the type of aircraft that he used on his historic flight that gave birth to the folks we now know as hurricane hunters.
Flying with the hurricane hunters would have to be in my top three (of many) weather geek dreams and fantasies.