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#260
by
stockman
on 27 Nov, 2009 18:27
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#261
by
Chris Bergin
on 27 Nov, 2009 18:29
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And it's Atlantis in the lead, Atlantis, closely followed by purge truck making up ground on rail. Fan Van looks out of the running.
(No one ever gets my jokes, but it's my site, so I'll amuse myself
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#262
by
wjbarnett
on 27 Nov, 2009 18:34
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And it's Atlantis in the lead, Atlantis, closely followed by purge truck making up ground on rail. Fan Van looks out of the running.
(No one ever gets my jokes, but it's my site, so I'll amuse myself )
After racing around the world for the last 10+ days, Atlantis gets to lead the pack to the barn, at a very leisurely pace (in comparison anyway).
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#263
by
stockman
on 27 Nov, 2009 18:34
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#264
by
stockman
on 27 Nov, 2009 18:35
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And it's Atlantis in the lead, Atlantis, closely followed by purge truck making up ground on rail. Fan Van looks out of the running.
(No one ever gets my jokes, but it's my site, so I'll amuse myself )
Crikey!!! an Armadillo with a 6 pack on his back could win this race...
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#265
by
stockman
on 27 Nov, 2009 18:38
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#266
by
stockman
on 27 Nov, 2009 18:43
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#267
by
Chris Bergin
on 27 Nov, 2009 18:43
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Three mile runway, this might take a while!
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#268
by
stockman
on 27 Nov, 2009 18:47
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Three mile runway, this might take a while!
I have nothing I would rather be doing...
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#269
by
Chris Bergin
on 27 Nov, 2009 18:47
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MDD in sight! Actually closer to the turn to the OPF route than I thought they'd be.
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#270
by
ChrisGebhardt
on 27 Nov, 2009 18:47
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From looking at the satellite image of SLF the towway exit is on the south end of the runway. So when landing on 33, do they do a 180 of the shuttle+convoy vehicles or is there some other route for them to back to the OPF?
There's two staging points, according to the Convoy manual. One at the MDD, and one where they drive up a "B Road" for the other end of the runway.
Gotcha: 2nd towway exit route. Thanks Chris! Love this site and all the participation and contributions!
Haha! Nope, see NTV now (sorry no screenshot capability here). They do perform a 180 on the runway to lead Atlantis back to SPF via southern towway.
Then they aren't going back the way they came. Interesting, as I've seen photos of an orbiter being towed back on a road too. Maybe that road was at the MDD, but the Convoy 100 percent went up the B Road, as we saw them on NTV.
Yeah... there's only one preferred way off the SLF for the Orbiter and that's at the southern end near for the MDD.
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#271
by
yorky10
on 27 Nov, 2009 18:51
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Approaching end of runway
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#272
by
stockman
on 27 Nov, 2009 18:52
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#273
by
stockman
on 27 Nov, 2009 18:54
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#274
by
stockman
on 27 Nov, 2009 18:56
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#275
by
stockman
on 27 Nov, 2009 18:58
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#276
by
stockman
on 27 Nov, 2009 19:00
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#277
by
stockman
on 27 Nov, 2009 19:01
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#278
by
stockman
on 27 Nov, 2009 19:01
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#279
by
yorky10
on 27 Nov, 2009 19:02
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