On July 27, 1943, Colonel Joe Duckworth, flying an AT-6 trainer from Bryan Field, Texas, became the first person to fly through the eye of a tropical cyclone. Thus began the use of manned aircraft by the US to monitor such storm systems.
1943 年 7 月 27 日，在美國德州布來安飛行訓練學校訓練年輕飛官的達克華茲上校，更首次駕駛 AT-6 教練機飛過颶風眼，自此以後，美國以載人飛機探測颶風／颱風的時代於焉展開。