Film opens with camera panning across Kindley Field, Bermuda, where WB-50 and WB-29 aircraft of the U.S. Air Force 59th Weather Reconnaissance Flight (Hurricane Hunters) are parked. Cluster of buildings and checkered tanks are seen behind them. Scene shifts to crew of a WB-29, in flight gear, including back pack parachutes, posing in front of their aircraft. The Aircraft Commander checks their chutes and they board the aircraft.
USAF Sergeant receiving weather information on the radio. He types as he hears it, on a Royal typewriter. When he finishes, a Master Sergeant (Non-commissioned officer in charge) takes the report from him. An airman at a keyboard transmitting a teletype message.The punched paper tape being created is seen at his left hand. An airman annotating a large chart with the weather information. Closeup of Cuba on the chart with wind information marked on it. The hand of an airman writing more data. More weather information being teletyped.
WB-29 aircraft of the 59th Weather Reconnaissance Flight (Hurricane Hunters) flying in and out of cumulus storm clouds. Radio operator at his position keying an outbound message. A dropsonde operator working. He opens an airlock cover and then places the dropsonde into it and secures it. The airlock cover is then closed. The operator looks down through a window in the airlock.
Crew of a U.S. Air Force WB-50D Hurricane Hunter aircraft stand by their aircraft (Tail number 50-4040) on the ramp at Kindley Air Force Base, Bermuda. They are all wearing back-pack parachutes. The Aircraft Commander checks each crew members chute. Closeup of the Aircraft Commander (Captain). The aircraft and crew are of the 59th Weather Reconnaissance Flight.
Views from window of a WB-50D aircraft, from the 59th Weather Reconnaissance Flight, while flying in the vicinity of Bermuda, through various cloud conditions. First view shows rising cumulus clouds. This is followed by views as the plane skims the tops of some altocumulus. A later view is taken between some stratiform layers. In change of sequence, WB-50D, tail number 50-2769, is seen cruising in the clear well above some altocumulus clouds.
A captain and a Lieutenant,in the flight operations office of the USAF 59th Weather Reconnaissance Flight (Hurricane Hunters) at Kindley Air Force Base, Bermuda. They are planning a flight. The captain holds a large E6B computer which he uses to calculate aircraft headings compensated for wind. He reads these headings to the lieutenant who writes them on their flight plan. They place the flight plan in a brief case when finished. View of a navigator's hand using a pair of dividers to measure on an aeronautical chart (possibly a Loran chart). A Weems plotter is seen laying on the chart.