For a time the US also sent out aircraft to monitor typhoons in the Pacific, but this program was terminated in 1987 for budgetary reasons. It would be 16 years before DOTSTAR finally rode to the rescue to carry on this work. "Now Taiwan is only the second country in the world to successfully monitor tropical cyclones with manned aircraft," says Wu Chun-chieh with a confident smile.
除了侵襲本土的颶風外，美國也曾派飛機觀測太平洋的颱風，但基於財政考量，早在 1987 年即中止任務，16 年後才由台灣的追風計劃接替上陣，台灣也是全球第二個成功以載人飛機觀測颱風的國家。