Fourth pass through Melissa this morning, another side view due to my hairbrained attempt to shoot 8k video out the front.

Third pass through Melissa. GoPro in side window as different camera looking forward shooting in ultra high res 8k. Not sure when that might get processed as the file turned out ridiculous. Barely had HD space for it and MacBook Pro promptly chocked when I tried to edit it

Second pass through Hurricane Melissa entering from the southwest side. Passed NOAA in the eye wall as they headed outbound for home. Obviously a very powerful storm but a relatively straightforward one on this flight. Much less nasty meso activity than 36 hours ago.

A thread of videos from today’s flight into Hurricane Melissa In this first one we are entering from the southeast just after sunrise and the bright arc on the far northwest eye wall is the light just beginning to make it over the top from behind us.

Fifth and final pass through Hurricane Melissa for our crew today. Just after noon entering from the NW corner exiting SE.

The sea surface is always interesting in the eye with waves going different directions

Another view looking down in the eye… got a nice swirl of clouds going on

Uncropped and higher res version of the first pass through Melissa yesterday morning.

And proper HD of the final pass

How was the turbulence for you personally? Also hairbrained attempt my ass this is amazing! 😤

Some of the best footage I’ve seen in the eye of a hurricane

Great video. Thank you!

Inside the Eye...CRAZY AF.

Thank you. This is amazing.

Thick as hell...

Do you enter the far eyewall in a bank on purpose?

is the 8k version somewhere available? twitter compresses this quite bad. amazing footage!

I put up a higher res version of one at the end of the thread, will get them on YouTube in 4K at some point

great! what is your channel? beautiful images!

The videos where you can see the props actually shows the scale so well. Absolutely incredible

Most of us are viewing on mobiles! 8k no use. Were you hoping to study the video?

"what if we inject bleach into the body?" or "nuclear"?

"my hairbrained attempt to shoot 8k video out the front." Au contraire my friend: Best pictures we are going to be seeing. Especially just coming out of the eyewall into the eye. WOW!!!