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The plane passes through the eye of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.		Dropping buoys ahead of Hurricane Ike in 2008.		A tanker steams through the wind driven waves ahead of a tropical storm.			Spiral bands of low level clouds near the center of a tropical storm
A radar view as we fly through the center of the eye of Hurricane Gustav at it's peak.		A partial eyewall as a storm makes landfall and begins falling apart.		Spiral bands near the eyewall of a hurricane.			High level outflow clouds near the top of the center of the hurricane can be seen in the distance as the plane approaches the storm.