Weather & Forecasting · Recorded milestone

Flights into hurricanes

Recorded year1943

US pilot Joseph Duckworth flies a trainer plane into the eye of a hurricane off Texas, starting the hurricane-hunter flights that still measure storms.

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All-metal aircraftRecorded · 1915enables

Led to

AI hurricane track forecastsRecorded · 2025enables

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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.