Seats run along the side of the fuselage. They're made of criss-crossed webbing that looks like your car's seat belts. Click here for the bigger picture . And forget about polite, quiet conversation. The plane has no sound-proofing, so it's very noisy.
Crew members wear earplugs.
To talk with one another over the plane's intercom, crew members wear bulky headphones with little microphones attached. Traveling to and from the storm is pretty peaceful. But once you start to fly in and out of the bands of thunderstorms that spiral out from the center of a hurricane, it can get bouncy. It's a thick wall of clouds around the center, or eye, of the storm. Weather forecasters need to know how strong the winds are at the eye wall.