re: #261 Joe Bacon 🌹

My high school Advanced Biology teacher was a chopper pilot in Vietnam. He said there is no CENSORED way a helicopter can fly close to a tornado without getting pelted with debris.

The air force lent a Skyraider for penetrating thunderstorms long ago. It got de armed and up armored, that plane was the predecessor to the A-10 for going low, slow and protecting troops from enemy on the ground. Recently a program to do the same to an A-10 for the same purpose was dropped. Anyway both those planes could take bullets all day long. But hail could put them down.