The space shuttle just landed in Ft Worth, and only a few miles from my home. I took these pics off of my back deck. I will post better pics once I download all 500 that I took ;D
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carswell?
Quote from: derby on December 10, 2008, 02:51:53 PM
carswell?
Sure is, though renamed NAS JRB Fort Worth.
Thats freaking cool! :o
A few more. Sorry for the image quality. It was a long way away, and there was a bit of haze.
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Very cool. I was outside in Nashville one afternoon when a Shuttle was landing in Florida and it passed over head. It was freaking loud and fast. I didn't know what it was until I watched the news later that night and saw its landing path.
mitt
that's where baby shuttles come from
if you look close... you can see the shuttlecock
[laugh] ^
Nice pics
Cool.. i just saw that on the news. How did you know it was landing at that time? Just happened to have a camera on you?
Very cool [thumbsup]
Quote from: mitt on December 10, 2008, 04:57:51 PM
Very cool. I was outside in Nashville one afternoon when a Shuttle was landing in Florida and it passed over head. It was freaking loud and fast. I didn't know what it was until I watched the news later that night and saw its landing path.
mitt
strange... since the shuttle glides back to Earth deadstick, the noise you heard was just the air it was displacing. I guess an object that big slicing through the air at such a high speed would be freaking loud.
Quote from: deweey on December 10, 2008, 09:57:54 PM
strange... since the shuttle glides back to Earth deadstick, the noise you heard was just the air it was displacing. I guess an object that big slicing through the air at such a high speed would be freaking loud.
sonic boom?
Quote from: Triple J on December 10, 2008, 10:13:04 PM
sonic boom?
Hehe, nah the sonic boom is only heard once as the shuttle re-enters the atmosphere and reaches Mach 1. When I was living in Daytona Beach, I would occasionally hear it when the shuttle came back to Earth.
Quote from: deweey on December 10, 2008, 10:56:12 PM
Hehe, nah the sonic boom is only heard once as the shuttle re-enters the atmosphere and reaches Mach 1. When I was living in Daytona Beach, I would occasionally hear it when the shuttle came back to Earth.
it actually produces two sonic booms, but they're so close to each other (half-second apart) they can sound like one.
when it lands in Mojave, we can hear the booms (both) in Bakersfield.
very cool. [thumbsup]
great pics.
What kind of lens are you shooting to get them at that range?
Got closer today... ;D
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Quote from: MikeZ on December 11, 2008, 09:37:01 AM
great pics.
What kind of lens are you shooting to get them at that range?
It is a 80-400mm on a Nikon D300. The above pic was from the D50 with a 28-105
This is a great size comparion.The two C-130's waiting to take off are dwarfed by the shuttle/747.
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That's an old ship man. I watched the Endeavor land from it's maiden voyage at Edward's AFB about 14 or 15 years ago. I'll never forget it either.
Quote from: OverCaffeinated on December 11, 2008, 10:43:56 AM
That's an old ship man. I watched the Endeavour land from it's maiden voyage at Edward's AFB about 14 or 15 years ago. I'll never forget it either.
I am from Kissimmee and watched the 1st take off of Endeavor (it was a night launch, if I remember right.) It was scrubbed several times, and my parents got tired of making the drive ;D
I have probably watched a dozen launches, but this was the first time I was able to see the piggy back on the 747. I am fortunate to have seen it, since the shuttle is going away :(
Quote from: OverCaffeinated on December 11, 2008, 10:43:56 AM
That's an old ship man. I watched the Endeavor land from it's maiden voyage at Edward's AFB about 14 or 15 years ago. I'll never forget it either.
16 years ago.... and it's the "young" one.
fwiw, it's "endeavour," named after this ship: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HM_Bark_Endeavour
Yeah the shuttle's body is designed to be the air foil as well, so it wont have a giant wingspan. And it comes in hot when landing, it takes the whole 2 mile runway in Cape Canaviral.