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      04-17-2012, 09:57 AM   #1
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Discovery pics anyone?

Took these from work today:

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      04-17-2012, 10:03 AM   #2
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That's awesome. I was able to see a shuttle launch live and to this day that is still the most impressive thing I've seen in my life.
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definitely pro creating planes.

Nice pics
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What's the escort? I can't quite make it out on my phone. F16?
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Nah, they are way too old- been here since ww2. Prob an f18.
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What's the escort? I can't quite make it out on my phone. F16?
Doesn't have the right canopy to be an F-16

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Nah, they are way too old- been here since ww2. Prob an f18.
F-18's have a double tail, so it can't be that either.

I think it looks like a T-38 Talon:

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Looked it up, was an f15
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Looked it up, was an f15
That is absolutely not an F15. Those things have a double tail as well and definitely the wrong shape. Perhaps that's what they normally use but in this case I do believe it's the T-38 Talon.
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T-38 makes sense because at first glance it looks like a mig
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Looked it up, was an f15
I'm pretty sure it was the Talon

NASA uses them as chase aircraft when the Shuttle is piggybacking on the 747.

Here's a picture of the two of them after they landed:

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I stand corrected, apologies. I based that on a google thread. I'm no expert on aircraft
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That is just amazing, I would love to see something like that.
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Just curious but how did you get two different angles here? Were you in a car when these were taken?
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were they just transproting the shuttle?
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Flew by a few times, I want to add- these are a few of many pics taken by coworkers and I. Yes, shuttle was being transported to Dulles Air and Space Museum for retirement. I will post a vid later- kind of shty quality since it's from my iphone.
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awesome.
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Flew by a few times, I want to add- these are a few of many pics taken by coworkers and I. Yes, shuttle was being transported to Dulles Air and Space Museum for retirement. I will post a vid later- kind of shty quality since it's from my iphone.
I thought it was going to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum?
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That's awesome. I was able to see a shuttle launch live and to this day that is still the most impressive thing I've seen in my life.
Agreed.

I was about 14 years old and my summer baseball team was in Cocoa Beach, FL for the AAU National Championship tourney. We happened to be off one day and were all in the ocean goofing around when there was a shuttle takeoff. I remember it vividly to this day. You could feel the ocean floor shaking and the whole process lasted what felt like 30 minutes, prolly more like 10. I remember the boosters falling off and watching them crash back to the ocean. It was an incredible thing to see.
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Very cool. I think it's interesting that we seem to be going back to our roots with retiring shuttles and going back to rockets.

As a person in the aerospace industry and contributor to the Orion project seen first hand the detail that goes into making such a flight possible. Would like to see one some day.
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