Space Shuttle @ LAX

[BILLUA]

This was at LAX yesterday when we taxied in. I have flown the 747 for about 6,000 hours... . Never with a space shuttle on top though



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[jhenderson]

I can't get over what they are going through to get the shuttle to the museum. 400 trees removed and replaced with new, plus sidewalk repair. The cost will be astronomical, not to mention the loss of many mature trees in an urban setting. Before anyone says anything: I'm a logging contractor, and not opposed to cutting trees. But I do have a working knowledge of what is involved, and how a mature tree cools and cleans the air. It's quite a project to replace them, and it will be decades before they mature.

 

[JHumphries]

Even Toyota is getting in on this.
http://www.youtube.com/user/ToyotaUSA/featured?v=-UUudW3RgXs

 

[BIGNASTY]

I can't get over what they are going through to get the shuttle to the museum. 400 trees removed and replaced with new, plus sidewalk repair. The cost will be astronomical, not to mention the loss of many mature trees in an urban setting. Before anyone says anything: I'm a logging contractor, and not opposed to cutting trees. But I do have a working knowledge of what is involved, and how a mature tree cools and cleans the air. It's quite a project to replace them, and it will be decades before they mature.

And its SUPPOSED to NOT cost anything for the state of Ca!!!!! Just like when the Lakers (aka Fakers) won the championship game the City of LA had to pay for their Party Parade. And the state is BROKE ON ITS A**. :-laf:-laf Those Green Peace Weenies have their priorities straight dont they. They are supposed to replant 2 trees for everyone cut down. Any bets that the people of Ca pick up the tab on this one. Please Ca get your I TRIED TO BY-PASS THE CUSSING FILTER together so the housing market comes up (it has been) so I can sell our last home to some ILLEGAL on WELFARE and have nothing else to do with the State.

 

[BoeingDiesel]

Bill, don't mean to hijack your thread but spent many thousands of hours OTL on the Classic through 4ER. Mr. Boeing did it right on this bird. Great picture of the Shuttle piggyback.

 

[mwilson]

This was at LAX yesterday when we taxied in. I have flown the 747 for about 6,000 hours... . Never with a space shuttle on top though



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Not being a pilot and all I can only speculate just how crappy that 747 must behave with that shuttle bungie-corded to the roof.



Kinda' like a Grand Caravan with four turtle carriers tied to the luggage rack driving in a 30 mph crosswind.....



Damn... .



Mike.

 

[BILLUA]

Not being a pilot and all I can only speculate just how crappy that 747 must behave with that shuttle bungie-corded to the roof.

Kinda' like a Grand Caravan with four turtle carriers tied to the luggage rack driving in a 30 mph crosswind.....

Damn... .

Mike.

LOL, I think there may have been some validity to that comment thus the additional vertical stabilizers on the tail.

 

[BILLUA]

Bill, don't mean to hijack your thread but spent many thousands of hours OTL on the Classic through 4ER. Mr. Boeing did it right on this bird. Great picture of the Shuttle piggyback.

I was always amazed that I could fly an 800,000lb aircraft with my fingertips and paint that thing on a runway halfway around the world, on the backside of the clock. It was a true credit to those engineers at Boeing that designed that aircraft.

I wish I had gotten to see that combo actually in the air. There is plenty of video of it arriving into LAX on the internet.

 

[GCroyle]

BILLUA,

I have been in a couple of 747's and it was always an amazing ride. Gotta wonder how any of the jumbo's get off the runway. But I have described the landings as if the Earth comes up to touch the wheels, not the wheels going down to touch the Earth. Simply amazing.

Gary

 

[BoeingDiesel]

Bill... Fair winds and blue skies.

gregg

 

[BILLUA]

Thank you Sir!

I also wish you the same in your retirement if I have read correctly.

 

[BoeingDiesel]

Thank you Sir!



I also wish you the same in your retirement if I have read correctly.

Thank you, I'm content with flying my Decathlon now and cruising the rolling hills of Tx. I must say tho', retirement is not at all what it's cracked up to be as I miss the days of lining up outbound for distant lands.

 

[JDiehl]

Anyone know the flight path the 747 took?



In a rare moment I was on the roof painting and saw a strange aircraft over Dodge City KS.

We have alot of military aircraft fly over the area. The sound of powerful war planes always draw my attention.



The glare kept me from a positive ID but I had never seen anything like it before.

 

[JHumphries]

Anyone know the flight path the 747 took?...

It's probably classified. :-laf

 

[EricBu12]

I heard that with the Shuttle on the back. . The 747 has to refuel 3 times on a cross country trip... wow. . full throttle all the way!!