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Breathtaking spy plane footage.
wimp.com ^ | 11/27/09 | wimp.com

Posted on 11/27/2009 4:32:05 AM PST by Doogle

..pretty cool clip


TOPICS: Military/Veterans; Miscellaneous; Science
KEYWORDS: dragonlady; spyplane
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To: Northern Yankee

Excellent, J. Thank you.


61 posted on 11/27/2009 10:22:45 AM PST by lysie (A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.T.Paine)
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To: Bad Jack Bauer
When I was a kid, like most kids, I wanted to be an astronaught.

Yeah. Me too. I also wanted to be an astronaut, but the closest I ever got was in college when I worked as an intern with people at JPL who regularly got to fly in the Vomit Comet. My department head, Taylor Wang, became the first civilian to fly on the space shuttle.

The space program probably made my life. In my earliest years in school I was considered borderline retarded. I wasn't stupid, just bored with mundane things and my developed interest in the moon shots, astronomy and engineering changed my life.

Not all government spending is evil, but dang it, if it had been left to private enterprise, I would have been in space by now ... The 37,000 feet on a trans-Pacific Ocean flight will have to do, I suppose.

62 posted on 11/27/2009 11:14:17 AM PST by altair (I want him to fail)
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To: raybbr
Piloting the plane in very thin air must be a real challenge.

That's why the good folks who write the avionics software for those magnificent machines get paid the big bucks.

We lose too many pilots in test plane crashes, but I'll bet we haven't lost nearly as many men in aerospace as the Portuguese lost developing the sea route to Asia.

63 posted on 11/27/2009 11:22:32 AM PST by altair (I want him to fail)
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To: Doogle
Found the entire film here
64 posted on 11/27/2009 4:25:09 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mylife
there ya go....pretty interesting preflight ritual.....only thing I've been through is the Egress preflight.....
65 posted on 11/27/2009 5:05:20 PM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Doogle

I was asked to get flight qauled but turned it down, Its a long story but I didn’t trust the airframe or pilot LoL


66 posted on 11/27/2009 5:16:37 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Northern Yankee

Happy Thanksgiving to you, too!


67 posted on 11/27/2009 8:28:16 PM PST by Victoria Delsoul
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