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Title: Shuttle Atlantis from an airliner
Post by: Flying Pig on July 18, 2011, 02:01:46 AM

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-636502

Very cool video. Talk about a front row seat to history.

Title: Re: Shuttle Atlantis from an airliner
Post by: Eclipse on July 18, 2011, 02:25:12 AM

Wow, awesome.

How much separation is that? I can never tell.

(http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/3394/shuttlefromairliner.jpg)

Title: Re: Shuttle Atlantis from an airliner
Post by: Spaceman3750 on July 18, 2011, 02:27:16 AM

Probably quite a bit...

Didn't FLWG fly some sort of security/observation detail in the no-fly zone around the shuttle launches at one point?

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