How to Film a Tornado

goneaway writes: "An interesting examination of the competitive world of filming tornadoes or "torn porn" as they call it over at the Atlantic. A fair amount of attention is given to the mechanics of filming and the inventions created to "safely" film while all hell is breaking loose."

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Re:Totally tech ignorant yet "brave" stupod people

[Alizarin Erythrosin]

Good idea in theory, but it probably would not work well in practice.

First of all, there's debris. LOTS of debris. It would smash the plane to bits long before it got into the vortex of a large tornado.

Second, there's often hail in the general area of a tornado.

Third, it was tried with a helicoptor, but it was realized what the hail around the tornado would do to the blades (namely they wouldn't exist anymore)