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reconnaissance aircraft  The Hurricane Hunters are aircrews that
fly into tropical cyclones in the North Atlantic Ocean and
Northeastern Pacific Ocean to gather weather data. Currently,
the U.S. units that fly these missions are the United States Air
Force Reserve's 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron and the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Hurricane
Hunters; such missions have also been flown by Navy units and
other Air Force and NOAA units.  Five U.S. aircrews have been
lost during such missions since they started during World War
II.[1]  Before satellites were used to find storms, military
aircraft flew routine weather reconnaissance tracks to detect
formation of tropical cyclones. Today, satellites have
revolutionized weather forecasters' ability to detect signs of
such cyclones before they form, yet they cannot determine the
interior barometric pressure of a hurricane nor p