Rocket Nut - 12/10/2007 5:26 PMQuotePete at Edwards - 12/10/2007 5:01 PMThere seems to be a lot of "me and a plane" images here!Yeah, here is a picture of me and my, uh, airplane...no...I retired from the flying game many years ago...things I work with now are a lot safer than those darn planes!
Pete at Edwards - 12/10/2007 5:01 PMThere seems to be a lot of "me and a plane" images here!
Rocket Ronnie - 13/10/2007 1:52 PMQuoteRocket Nut - 12/10/2007 5:26 PMQuotePete at Edwards - 12/10/2007 5:01 PMThere seems to be a lot of "me and a plane" images here!Yeah, here is a picture of me and my, uh, airplane...no...I retired from the flying game many years ago...things I work with now are a lot safer than those darn planes!Can't make out if that gator is happy or angry to see you!
Left to right: Joe Allen, DWT, Max Faget, yours truly, Burt Rutan, Bob Lovell, C.C. Johnson. In the background: partially integrated Pegasus Flight 3 Stage 2 motor and Stage 1 assembly on the AIT (Assembly and Integration Trailer). Location: NASA Dryden Pegasus Hangar. Date: sometime in 1992? My memory is fading...
At that meeting, C.C., Burt and I sketched a vary large, liquid-powered air launched manned booster system (the rocket was code-named "Maliboo", the carrier aircraft "Grasshopper"; Max and C.C. designed the spacecraft, a small, two-seat winged thing). Burt wanted to put rocket engines on the carrier aircraft to increase its flight path angle and avoid a wing in the rocket. I wanted a wing on the rocket and no rocket engines on the aircraft. A substantially modified 1/4 to 1/3 scale version of Grasshopper flew many years later under the name "White Knight".
This is me with my two youngest boys a few years ago (they are 19 and 17 now, both taller than me :laugh:
I am a mechanical engineer, working with high pressure pumps, but have been a life long fan of the space program.
antonioe - 13/10/2007 11:25 PMLeft to right: Joe Allen, DWT, Max Faget, yours truly, Burt Rutan, Bob Lovell, C.C. Johnson.
Left to right: Joe Allen, DWT, Max Faget, yours truly, Burt Rutan, Bob Lovell, C.C. Johnson.
jmjawors - 7/11/2007 10:19 PMHere I am. This is what it looks like following two weeks of shuttle (STS-120) coverage. I'm sure a lot of you can relate.
Chris Bergin - 8/11/2007 6:59 PMHa, that's brilliant. :laugh: Must be a "it's my baby" thing, but there's something really awesome about seeing the site on people's computer screens, such as the above, and the image where Jim had it on his office PC at KSC (fell off my chair when I saw that).Just a bit surreal, but cool, to see it "physically", because when I'm writing the articles and hitting publish, I see the read count go up, but that's just stats.
antonioe - 13/10/2007 11:25 PMLeft to right: Joe Allen, DWT, Max Faget, yours truly, Burt Rutan, Bob Lovell, C.C. Johnson. In the background: partially integrated Pegasus Flight 3 Stage 2 motor and Stage 1 assembly on the AIT (Assembly and Integration Trailer). Location: NASA Dryden Pegasus Hangar. Date: sometime in 1992? My memory is fading...
ShuttleDiscovery - 14/11/2007 2:34 PMMe with my shuttle mission photo collection
spaceshuttle - 15/11/2007 5:58 AMQuoteShuttleDiscovery - 14/11/2007 2:34 PMMe with my shuttle mission photo collection Awesome! :laugh: