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Offline Shuffler

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Over our shop............
« on: September 19, 2012, 10:28:26 AM »
I've been standing out behind our shop watching the shuttle go over several times. When it comes back I'll get a pic.

It is circling Elington Field for an hour and then will land there for refueling. Word is that it will be on display there for a couple of days so that folks that actually had something to do with it can see it. Then it will be off to static display at some place that had nothing to do with the shuttle program.
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Re: Over our shop............
« Reply #1 on: September 19, 2012, 10:31:29 AM »
I've been standing out behind our shop watching the shuttle go over several times. When it comes back I'll get a pic.

It is circling Elington Field for an hour and then will land there for refueling. Word is that it will be on display there for a couple of days so that folks that actually had something to do with it can see it. Then it will be off to static display at some place that had nothing to do with the shuttle program.

Well, where else would you expect them to put it?
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Re: Over our shop............
« Reply #2 on: September 19, 2012, 10:32:07 AM »
I've been standing out behind our shop watching the shuttle go over several times. When it comes back I'll get a pic.

It is circling Elington Field for an hour and then will land there for refueling. Word is that it will be on display there for a couple of days so that folks that actually had something to do with it can see it. Then it will be off to static display at some place that had nothing to do with the shuttle program.

Aside from help pay for the thing?
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Re: Over our shop............
« Reply #3 on: September 19, 2012, 10:35:07 AM »
Aside from help pay for the thing?

Shrink wrap it and bury it.

In 50 years it will be even more interesting to look at...
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Re: Over our shop............
« Reply #4 on: September 19, 2012, 11:17:34 AM »
I've been standing out behind our shop watching the shuttle go over several times. When it comes back I'll get a pic.

It is circling Elington Field for an hour and then will land there for refueling. Word is that it will be on display there for a couple of days so that folks that actually had something to do with it can see it. Then it will be off to static display at some place that had nothing to do with the shuttle program.

The shuttle can take off by itself from a runway???

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Re: Over our shop............
« Reply #5 on: September 19, 2012, 11:22:35 AM »
The shuttle can take off by itself from a runway???

As far as I know it is always transported on the back of a modified commercial jet.

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Re: Over our shop............
« Reply #6 on: September 19, 2012, 11:26:58 AM »
The shuttle can take off by itself from a runway???

It is piggy back on a Boing.

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Re: Over our shop............
« Reply #7 on: September 20, 2012, 10:53:13 AM »
We were walking around on the "de-mating rig" at KSC last time we where there and decided it would be the perfect place to stage a remake of "heartbreak hotel".

We pushed back our visit until october because it seems to be raining every single day now.

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Re: Over our shop............
« Reply #8 on: September 20, 2012, 10:59:14 AM »
  I noticed the verticle stabilizers on the rear of the 747. Don't know if they move with the rudder to help as the shuttle must block a great deal of airflow.  :airplane:
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Re: Over our shop............
« Reply #9 on: September 20, 2012, 12:51:15 PM »
It is piggy back on a Boing.

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Re: Over our shop............
« Reply #10 on: September 20, 2012, 06:26:30 PM »
I've been standing out behind our shop watching the shuttle go over several times. When it comes back I'll get a pic.

It is circling Elington Field for an hour and then will land there for refueling. Word is that it will be on display there for a couple of days so that folks that actually had something to do with it can see it. Then it will be off to static display at some place that had nothing to do with the shuttle program.

You want to apologise and educate your ignorant arse before I school it, son?  :devil :banana:

Well, where else would you expect them to put it?

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