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Old 01-20-2008 | 08:21 AM
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Does anyone know how high Tornado's are? From what altitude do they typicaly drop? I would imagine it to be low, and making the idea of a plane flying through one even more dicey - even if it could withstand the violence, would they be slammed into the ground by a violent downdraft?

Didn't some school do T-storm research using beefed-up T-28's? If I recall correctly they arour platted the leading edges and beefed-up the canopy and flew the beast through intense T-Storms and hail.
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Old 01-20-2008 | 12:19 PM
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Originally Posted by stinsonjr
Does anyone know how high Tornado's are?
The weather desk at Wright-Patterson AFB base ops has a photo on the wall showing a radar echo of the famous Xenia tornado (1974). They said that their "height-finder" radar lost the top of the cell at 60,000 feet.

Didn't some school do T-storm research using beefed-up T-28's? If I recall correctly they arour platted the leading edges and beefed-up the canopy and flew the beast through intense T-Storms and hail.
The National Severe Storms Laboratory sponsored such a study, called "Project Rough Rider", using instrumented Air Force fighters. As you might expect, the airplanes were severely damaged.
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Old 01-20-2008 | 02:45 PM
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It looks fake for some reason.
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Old 01-20-2008 | 03:50 PM
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cTihdS8MU8

This is a link to the T-28 storm research I was talking about.
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