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Soon sheets of rain whip against the plane's windows, dissolving the reassuring sight of the wings. On the radar screen in front of my seat, the red of the eyewall--the circle of turbulent storms that surrounds a hurricane's eye--grows thicker and more menacing. "The red fingers of death," pilot Mike Silah jokes grimly, and as if on cue, the plane--a Lockheed WP-3D Orion operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)--starts to pitch, roll and yaw, a small boat at the mercy of giant, invisible waves. I tighten the straps...
...plane I'm riding in is itself a flying data-collecting instrument, with an air- sampling rod protruding from its nose and three radar units fastened to its nose, belly and tail. In addition, it has a pipe in the fuselage for launching sensor-loaded canisters known as dropwindsondes, sleek probes that take continuous readings of wind speeds, temperature, pressure and humidity as they parachute down. By combining the data obtained by multiple dropwindsondes, computer models can recon- struct the environment both inside and outside a hurricane, identifying conditions that feed or sap its strength or steer...
...Small operators like the students at Harvard can do this and they stay under the radar screen of the publishers because the publishers don’t want this to be happening,” Powell said. “Online competitors have what we call cherry-picked, the biggest titles and most expensive books. It works for the small operator but it doesn’t work for the larger operator who has a large list like...
...When all the attention was on [Dante], it did help me a lot, and I prefer to fly under the radar,” Everett said. “But this year, there’s not going to be anyone like that to take the spotlight away...
Paradoxically, while Everett may not fly under the radar any more, his entire defense might...