Hawker Hurricane MkIIa The Hawker Hurricane was one of the most famous British fighters of World War II. The plane’s legend was born during the Battle of Britain in the summer of 1940. When the Nazis attacked Great Britain, Royal Air Force (RAF) Fighter Command had only 527 Hurricanes and 321 Spitfire fighters to counter the enemy's 2,700 aircraft. Yet, the RAF maintained air superiority in the skies of England due in part to the Hurricane’s quality and British industry’s ability to replace lost

Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter aircraft measured flight-level winds of 154 knots and confirmed a central pressure of 917 mb inside Melissa’s eye — signs of an extremely powerful storm. The hurricane’s eye is just 10 nautical miles wide and surrounded by cloud tops colder than –86 °C, evidence of deep convection and explosive intensification. Melissa is expected to gradually turn northwest and then north before accelerating northeastward across southeastern Cuba and the Bahamas by midweek. Th

This incredible video taken by hurricane hunter aircraft shows the inside of the perfectly-formed eye of Hurricane Melissa, which is forecast to slam into Jamaica as a "catastrophic" storm. | FOX 13 News