I've seen the white one, This very one, with the Shuttle on top in Person in Nashville, Tennessee!!!!! It was a Sight to behold!!! A flying Space Laboratory!!!
The wings for this plane were assembled where I live in NE Wales and transported down the River Dee on a specifically built barge to a port where they were forwarded to France to be assembled into the final aircraft. I walked by the river many times and was able to witness the wings on the barge just waiting for a high tide to move downstream. I think there were two barges and one was called Bala (Welsh Lake) I forget the second.
I enjoyed a lot your videos from MaxQ Enternainment, back on the Shuttle days. I wonder if you could make them available again, as they were great! What was the reason for taking that decision? Now those videos are lost on the cyberspace...
Hey! We still have them. I’ll reach out to NSF and see if they can host them somehow. Most of us moved on to other things post-shuttle but some of us are still in touch. Just wasn’t much to do after that. I did see my second launch just last month, though (IFT-3)! Felt good to get back into it a bit 😎
@@Astro95Media Nice news! Would be great to be able to watch those videos. Not only for me, but for the whole Internet, they were great memories of the Shuttle era.
It's definitely different. Need a quicker shutter than stationary targets but slow enough to expose them. You typically open the lens up all the way as well.
I wasn’t sure if you realised that this A380-800 was the largest aircraft in the world at the time, just after it taxied past you there was an A319 landing behind her. Currently the smallest Airbus in the family.
@@franspasteels3420 I stand corrected. I wasn’t aware of the A318. When I was at BAe in Manchester there was only the A300,320,330 and 340. The 380 was still an artist’s impression and we were just cutting the first test ribs 5a/5b for the inboard undercarriage for the 380 wings out of hdf.
It was the largest passenger aircraft, but not the largest overall. The An-124 and An-225 (RIP) were larger. And yeah the A318 is an adorable little thing. Seen one or two of them here from Avianca and it's amazing how stubby they are. They have to have a larger tail to compensate for the shorter fuselage (akin to the 747SP).
Its maiden flight into Houston was when exactly? I have pictures and was lucky enough to board it. I can't remember the date, but it was before the gold and blue paint job. Would be happy for you to see my pictures.
It’s on Lee Road, just off the approach end of Runway 27. Just take JFK up to Will Clayton and head east. You’ll eventually hit Lee Road and turn right. The lot is on your left.
They were up. I watched the engineer verify the configuration before they pushed. And the bar was disconnected from the tug before it was removed from the jet, then reconnected to the tug (proper procedure). Full video shows all of it happening but I trimmed it down so people wouldn't get too bored :)
I still remember back then when this 747 still with Malaysia Airlines, this aircraft has a memories bringing home MH17 victim bodies back to Malaysia. I was there😢
Oh crap, 07/12/2023 someone offloaded an SUV from a 747. Driving it out the front cargo hatch onto a deck loader. I know it can be done, safely. The reason to put cargo on a pallet is to ease the cleanup in case something goes wrong.
The market was going to go one of two ways ... either spoke and wheel or point to point. Airbus bet on the former; Boeing the latter. Boeing was right and we got the 787 out of it. Thankfully Airbus caught on not too long after that and gave us the A350.
That was me. I said “70 was the first shuttle mission that they did in FCR-1.” Meaning - the first time they used the updated Flight Control Room (FCR) for the shuttle was for STS-70 in 1995.
Thank you! Yes, always shoot in RAW. Gives you more editable material and you can refine it even years later. So many old junk shots of mine have been saved thanks to using RAW.
