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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Chairboy on October 29, 2007, 08:45:44 PM

Title: Fun flight - live
Post by: Chairboy on October 29, 2007, 08:45:44 PM

A NASA flight in progress, check out the speeds & altitudes.  Nice circles, heh:

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/NASA806

Title: Fun flight - live
Post by: DREDIOCK on October 29, 2007, 08:49:44 PM

Pretty cool

Now If I only knew of someone on a plane right now.

Oh well I'll just haveta wait till my mom comes up to visit in Dec

Title: Fun flight - live
Post by: Mark Luper on October 29, 2007, 08:52:15 PM

I wonder what it is that they are researching at "only" 60,000 ft. It's not like there hasn't been ample opportunity for research much higher.

Mark

Title: Fun flight - live
Post by: Pooh21 on October 29, 2007, 09:09:40 PM

My favorite flight (http://flightaware.com/live/flight/COA74). Only 6 more months til I get a months vacation saved up. And a plane load of lucky bastages will be at my house in less then 4 hours.

Title: Fun flight - live
Post by: Chairboy on October 29, 2007, 09:09:57 PM

Hmm...  I've been trying to figure out what they're doing.  Check this out:

http://science.nasa.gov/realtime/jtrack/Spacecraft.html

Control-click on the icon for the shuttle, it'll pass close to that flight in an hour or so, I bet they'll be photographing it.

Title: Fun flight - live
Post by: Mark Luper on October 29, 2007, 09:28:19 PM

I guess I'm dumb, I don't know which one is the shuttle.

Mark

Title: Fun flight - live
Post by: Donzo on October 29, 2007, 09:34:12 PM

Where is that NASA flight?  I don't see the shuttle passing over US.

Title: Fun flight - live
Post by: Donzo on October 29, 2007, 09:40:18 PM

The shuttle can be found by clicking the Human Space Flight Web site’s Orbital Tracking page link on the left.

Currently it shows the shuttle docked to the International Space Station somewhere over India.

Title: Fun flight - live
Post by: Chairboy on October 29, 2007, 10:00:07 PM

Coming down now, guess it wasn't photoing the shuttle after all, it's down to 20k now.

Title: Fun flight - live
Post by: Pooh21 on October 29, 2007, 10:53:42 PM

Since I posted I have been hitting refresh every once in a while on this FedEx (http://flightaware.com/live/flight/FDX1225)  flight from about 1 minute after takeoff and at this time it is half way across the US. That is a interesting site