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alltheway

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Launch Discovery filmed from airplane
« on: February 26, 2011, 06:59:13 PM »
The launch of the last flight of spaceshuttle Discovery is filmed from an airplane, cool video...

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Offline captkel

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Re: Launch Discovery filmed from airplane
« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2011, 08:44:27 AM »
cool 8-) I live 150 miles south of the cape and that's about how it looks here however I only get about a 30 second view before it's gone.
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Re: Launch Discovery filmed from airplane
« Reply #2 on: February 27, 2011, 03:59:52 PM »
must of been SWA!
"if you're on the right side of the aircraft, you can see the space shuttle, and if you're on the left side of the aircraft, you can probably see people on the right side of the aircraft looking at the space shuttle"

LOL
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Offline Jason

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Re: Launch Discovery filmed from airplane
« Reply #3 on: February 27, 2011, 07:21:40 PM »
Quote from: djmodifyd on February 27, 2011, 03:59:52 PM
must of been SWA!
"if you're on the right side of the aircraft, you can see the space shuttle, and if you're on the left side of the aircraft, you can probably see people on the right side of the aircraft looking at the space shuttle"

LOL

I enjoyed both the view and the PA announcement.  :-)

Quite interesting how curved the shuttle's flight path (as shown by the contrail) appears up at altitude.
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Offline joeyb747

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Re: Launch Discovery filmed from airplane
« Reply #4 on: February 27, 2011, 08:42:53 PM »
Very neat!  :mrgreen:
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alltheway

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Re: Launch Discovery filmed from airplane
« Reply #5 on: February 28, 2011, 09:26:30 AM »
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