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Tropical Cowboy of Danger@FlynonymousWX · Oct 27, 2025

A thread of videos from today’s flight into Hurricane Melissa In this first one we are entering from the southeast…

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A pilot documents multiple flights through Hurricane Melissa with video footage from different angles and passes, capturing the eye wall structure, cloud formations, and sea surface conditions throughout the day. The thread shows increasingly high-resolution footage including attempted 8K video, with a note about concerns regarding content attribution.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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

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

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

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

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

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

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    And proper HD of the final pass

    Tropical Cowboy of Danger@FlynonymousWX · Oct 28, 2025

    Due to requests here is one pass through Hurricane Melissa in HD. Also… after talking with some of the guys on the crew how do we get @joerogan to go on a hurricane flight? m.youtube.com/watch?v=xEYeYf…

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    This thread hit big… now all that’s left is for Massimo to monetize it without attribution. Probably will rip the versions from my personal accounts rather than even bothering to get it from the appropriate channels. Any guessing how long it will take?