CU Boulder engineers fly drones into tornadoes

[Brian Noble]

CU Boulder fly drones int tornadoes to learn how they form
Tornado warnings save lives. But to improve the warning time, forecasters need information about tornado genesis - how they begin. That's where CU Boulder's drones come in.

 

[Jeff Wright]

Interesting

 

[Gary Latimer]

Reed Timmer is doing something similar isn’t he?

 

[Joe Cameron]

Reed Timmer is doing something similar isn’t he?

yes, with rockets.
He was shooting up in the inflow and then the payload was sucked into the vortex.

I think the payload is lifted up in the updraft by parachute after it is deployed.
Like Estes rockets do, the engines do a back burn to blow the top payload out.

I though about doing it, but with no letter suffixes after my name, nobody would pay any attention.
From what pricing i can find, the payload package that Reed uses come to something like 5k. ( I think ).

 

[Jeff Wright]

I'd love to see that monster SOFIA telescope-equipped 747 follow an Orion/Electra and photograph a classic supercell tornado from the south.