Lieutenant Kevin Doremus, the co-pilot of the NOAA Hurricane Hunter's P-3 Orion, flies through the eye of Hurricane Dorian at 10,000 feet on Sept. 5, 2019. The planes serve as research laboratories with wings when flying in hurricanes, providing a real-time CAT scan of the storms and creating a three-dimensional image used by the National Hurricane Center to build real-time forecasts and aid in future predictions and analysis. The information they gather is crucial to the lives of the people in the path of the storm.