Thousands of people in the Bay Area were taking pics of the shuttled shuttle. I initially wanted to take a trip to the Marin Headlands close to the Golden Gate but there was a risk of fog, large crowds and the commute and the shuttle was initially scheduled to fly by at 8:30am. Then I saw a newscast that said it would be doing a low flyby at Moffett airfield across the bay from me. So I guessed a path from the Golden Gate to Moffett. Wished I had used my zoom lense. I had scoped out a nice distance between a couple of cars but people started crowding in close to the bike and one TOOL even stepped right into the pic. (See below) I yelled to get out of the pic but he had shuttle fever. Whatever! I was hoping to create a one-of-a-kind CVO pic!
Blueice posted his shuttle pic in Off Topic. (Earlier than my posting I noticed.)
http://www.cvoharley.com/smf/index.php?topic=78173.0Dave, I was expecting a photo from you since the shuttle was at Edwards.
When moving to the Bay Area in 1988 I was passing by Edwards and waited for an hour and saw one of the shuttles reenter Earth's atmosphere and land at Edwards.
Looking up there was a bright flash followed by two sonic booms and the shuttle circling one big circle and landing. Took about one minute.
I'm thinking that watching a launch of the shuttle from a close distance would have to be amazing. I was on the Kadena airstrip in Okinawa when the SR71 took off at dusk. Amazing power.
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