3. At the Bottom of the Sea _32_ 4. Storm Warnings _45_ 5. Radio Helps—Then Hinders _59_ 6. The Eye of the Hurricane _75_ 7. First Flight into the Vortex! _90_ 8. The Hammer and the Highway _103_ 9. Wings against the Whirling Blasts _117_ 10. Kappler’s Hurricane _132_ 11. Tricks of the Trade _150_ 12. Trailing the Terrible Typhoon _167_ 13. Guest on a Hairy Hop _185_ 14. The Unexpected _202_ 15. Fighting Hail and Hurricanes _224_ 16. Carol, Edna, Hazel or Saxby! _237_ 17. The Gears and Guts of the Giant _250_ ILLUSTRATIONS (_Photographic supplement follows page 50_) The English warship _Egmont_ in the “Great Hurricane” of 1780. The _Calypso_ in the big Atlantic hurricane of 1837. A tremendous wave breaks against the distant seawall on Florida coast at the height of a hurricane. Typhoon buckles the flight deck of the aircraft carrier _Bennington_ and drapes it over the bow. Winds of hurricane drive pine board through the tough trunk of a palm tree in Puerto Rico, September 13, 1928. Looking down from plane at the surface of the sea with winds of 15 knots. Sea surface with winds of 40 knots. Sea surface with winds of 75 knots. Sea surface with winds of 120 knots. Superfortress B-29 used by Air Force for hurricane hunting. Neptune P2V-3W used by Navy for hurricane hunting. Navy crew of hurricane hunters. Air Force crew being briefed by weather officer before flight into hurricane. Conditions at birth of Caribbean Charlie in 1951. Part of a spiral squall band, an “arm of the octopus.” Through Plexiglas nose, weather officer sees white caps on sea 1,500 feet below. Navy aerologist at his station in nose of aircraft on hurricane mission. Radar operator and navigator. Maintenance crew goes to work on B-29 after return from hurricane mission. City docks at Miami after passage of Kappler’s Hurricane in September, 1945. Positions of crew members in B-29 on hurricane mission. Part of scope showing typhoon by radar. Looking down into the eye of Hurricane Edna on September 7, 1954. Looking down at the central region of Typhoon Marge in 1951. Weather officer in nose of aircraft talking to pilot and radar operator. The engineer in a B-29 on hurricane reconnaissance. The two scanners ready to signal engine trouble the instant it shows up.