Do we get more pics, Katie?
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Do we get more pics, Katie?
As soon as I get them............I'll be on the flightline cheering them down!!! :cool:
<jealous>Must be nice.</jealous>
I live about 60 miles from Cape Canaveral. I get to see all that fire when they launch. Talk about loud. Hell, the shuttle is almost as loud as a harley. :)
It's eerily quiet when it lands though! After the double sonic booms that is!
almost?Quote:
Originally posted by cafeenman
I live about 60 miles from Cape Canaveral. I get to see all that fire when they launch. Talk about loud. Hell, the shuttle is almost as loud as a harley. :)
The ground shakes.....
anyways, ill get a picture someday for all you unfortunate people who dont get to see it launch :p
I was using a new technique I'm learning called sarcasm. I'm not too good at it yet, but I'm practicing as much as I can. :)Quote:
Originally posted by markman
almost?
The ground shakes.....
i'm sure i'll live...
apparently it costs them buckets when they have to land in california because the shuttle has to be sent by road back to florida
You wouldn't believe how much it costs. They have to stick to 55 the whole way and that's about 5 days worth of rocket fuel. And that doesn't even count the amount of damage done to other vehicles or the roads by the rocket blast.Quote:
Originally posted by chrisjk
i'm sure i'll live...
apparently it costs them buckets when they have to land in california because the shuttle has to be sent by road back to florida
In the beginning of the shuttle program they always landed at Edwards because it is remote and they can do lake bed landings in case of emergency. We the program became more stable they started landing in Florida. It makes more sense economically to land there but it is safer here in extreme weather.
No Chris...NASA has a special 747 that piggybacks the shuttle from here to Florida!
That idea originally came from model builders. I still have the article where they were using a small scale 747 to transport a shuttle of the same scale. That was several years before an actual shuttle was ever built.Quote:
Originally posted by barrk
No Chris...NASA has a special 747 that piggybacks the shuttle from here to Florida!
ah well, road, air, same thingQuote:
Originally posted by barrk
No Chris...NASA has a special 747 that piggybacks the shuttle from here to Florida!
747 flights don't come cheap you know ;)
d'ya reckon I meant on a large truck by any chance?Quote:
Originally posted by cafeenman
You wouldn't believe how much it costs. They have to stick to 55 the whole way and that's about 5 days worth of rocket fuel. And that doesn't even count the amount of damage done to other vehicles or the roads by the rocket blast.
http://www.spacepix.net/images/large...t_atln_747.jpg
planes are cool :D
id rather be on the top one
Yeah, I like it on top too!
Yeah... but that's not nearly as much fun as off-roading in one of those things.Quote:
Originally posted by chrisjk
d'ya reckon I meant on a large truck by any chance?
what? chocolate sprinkles on your ice cream?Quote:
Originally posted by barrk
Yeah, I like it on top too!
Of course Chris...what else would I mean?! ;)
Parksie, that picture looks very familiar! :D
Now I wonder who originally sent them to me :D
Could it have been a mischevious fairy?
Might have been :p
funny, I thought you were making a sexual innuendo...Quote:
Originally posted by barrk
Of course Chris...
;)
I am so 100% completely ready to go home that I can't even contain myself!!! ARGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I feel much better now!
Me? :eek:Quote:
Originally posted by chrisjk
funny, I thought you were making a sexual innuendo...
;)
Now where did I put my halo?
look at it this way...by the time you can leave you should be about 115% ready, which is a bonus in anybodys eyesQuote:
Originally posted by barrk
I am so 100% completely ready to go home that I can't even contain myself!!!
I think parksie took your halo and sold it for a rump steak and 2 packs of ground nutmeg
Bad Parksie!! By the way, you were taken. You could have gotten much more for it than that!
Again I am on the wrong track from the title of the thread... I thought it was gonna be like a challenge to all VBF members to see if they could land a cessna there without getting shot down by Katie and her cohorts...
I was going to make a similar joke several hours ago but decided against it
Good to see you have no shame BB, well done
It took me those few hours to find a suitable replacement for the word "cronies" :)