Endevour's last flight

Started by beefmann, September 21, 2012, 04:55:36 PM

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beefmann

was in the right place to witness the last Flight of space shuttle Endevour last flight that toured southern and central Calif  in flight for close to 5 hours  and it was a  sight to see right out my an upstairs window...



mikecorn.1

Awesome pic. I missed it when it was flying around the Houston, Tx area.  :'(  >:(
Mike

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When i was a teen growing up by EAFB i watched the 1st shuttle piggy on the 747 for its 1st break away glide flight right over my parents house in Littlerock Calif. Since then my wife who is an ATC and worked at EAFB tracon i got to watch many shuttle landings STANDING on the roof of the building and the shuttle landing on the runway.....OUI  :o

devo

Quoteshuttle landings on the roof of the building
Man that must be a good pilot.  ;)

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Quote from: devo on September 22, 2012, 05:51:25 AM
Quoteshuttle landings on the roof of the building
Man that must be a good pilot.  ;)

Edit

While we were standing on the roof and the shuttle was landing on the runway  :o

OU812

COOL!

I here tell that takes a GOOD pilot to fly piggy back,,,,,,,,due to the extra wings and tail fin

muebe

Rick there were about 4,000 people watching it fly by at Ave N and Sierra Hwy.

I actually got to see the Shuttle up close years back. Was working at Boeing when the security guard heard my comment about how cool it was that the shuttle was there. He asked me if I wanted to look at it and I said hell yes! He took me on his golf cart to the special hangar where they worked on it. The front nose was removed. He explained to me how they had pre-built a new nose that had all updated electronics before it arrived. They were in the middle of slapping the new nose on. Of course I was not allowed to take any pictures and I don't think my cell phone at the time even had a camera. I don't think there were any that had cameras come to think of it ;)

Anytime I worked there I was always escorted by a security guard and never alone ;)
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