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Originally Posted by AlexanderHowl
Nothing with active rotors could survive, though prop planes called Hurricane Hunters do it all of the time. .
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They've (NOAA I think)used things as common place as Lear Jets too. At high altitude it's no real problem.
As for landing in a Cat 5 hurricane, nothing realistic of this Earth could do it. Even if it could people could walk down the boarding ramp. Even crazy people employed by The Weather Channel with rocks in their pockets and lead weights on thier anbkleswould go flying sideways in a Cat 5.
If you want to finesse a description for pure effect you would describe a perfectly symmetical and ultra-streamlined "flying saucer" with God's own vectored thrust engines and a precognitively fast fly-by-wire control system dropping into an underground bunker with an armored lid sliding sideways into place over it.
No, it wouldn't look like the flying _thing_ from the third Nolan Batman movie. Cat 5 winds would grab that and turn it into a Rubik's Cube.