In the 1940's we didn't even have decent hurricane prediction.....

Even in the 1950s. I had the pleasure of flying through one, in an
R5C-1 (C-46), that was supposed to be out of the way by the time we
got to Florida.

Wasn't very turbulent. Just very heavy rain, and a huge amount of
drift as we tried to stay on the north leg of the Miami crowfoot
range.

Suddenly we flew into bright sunlight, then soon back into the heavy
rain again, now drifting strongly the other way.

The only thing that might have made it exciting was that one prop
governor misbehaved, as they tended to do in heavy rain, and the fire
warning light on the other side kept coming on, which was also common
in heavy rain.

It didn't occur to us we had flown through the eye of the hurricane
till we landed at Miami and were told we had.

It wasn't anything like Ivan, of course.

vince norris