largest telescope mirror gets moved

[xoxoxoBruce]

Another project they did at Tufts (before I worked there) was sized and shaped like a bomb so it could be fitted into a bomb rack on a plane. When the plane dropped it into the eye of a hurricane, a parachute slowed the "bomb" while an onboard balloon inflated. Then a Sears Craftsman tape measure with an electric motor attached uncoiled to form an antennae for the signal transmitter. They tracked the signal as the hurricane moved across the ocean thus proving for the first time that hurricanes have an eye that moves with it. A couple years later satellites verified it.