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Reed Timmers Dominator 3
When the Dominator is about to intercept a tornado, Timmer uses a two-prong system to anchor the vehicle. Air compressors lower the car so its thick rubber skirt nearly touches the ground and spikes wedge 6 inches into the earth to firmly prevent the vehicle from liftoff.
Dominator has the chassis of an F350 and weighs 10,000 pounds, enabling it to withstand the debris, gorilla hail, and 150-mph winds that accompany the most powerful of storms.
The Dominator’s gull-wing doors weigh 800 pounds each and are coated in Kevlar-based polyethylene, which is “basically a bulletproof vest,” says Timmer. This vehicle has been through a cat. 5 hurricane as well.
His dog Gizmo who has been through more than 100 tornados.
In May of 2019, they shot a rocket loaded with sensors directly into the heart of a tornado. Timmer has accomplished this once: the rocket tracked the vortex’s pressure drop and frigid air temperature. His team’s hope in the coming year is to launch dozens of rockets at the same time into the swirling updraft of a twister’s “inflow notch.” But even if all those rockets fail, the Dominator is full of its own sensors to capture valuable scientific data.
They are now in the process of using a drone to fly the sensor into one. They have been testing for days now.
This is some of the drone footage they have caught.
You can watch Reed and Team Dominator chase severe weather and also possibly release a rocket into one for scientific research live on FB and YouTube.
Some silliness from earlier.
At the moment, they're at hour 81! And there are about 6,800+ folks who have contacted representatives.
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