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Topic: Photo of the week 308 (September 25, 2010)
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heng44
Member Posts: 3387
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 09-25-2010 08:25 AM
   
 Lt. Col. Gabriel Green and Capt. Zachary Bartoe patrol over KSC in an F-15E Strike Eagle as the Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on mission STS-132 on May 14, 2010. Colonel Green is the 333rd Fighter Squadron commander and Captain Bartoe is a 333rd FS weapons system officer. Both aircrew members are assigned to Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C. (U.S. Air Force photo by Capt. John Peltier). Ed Hengeveld |
AstroAutos
Member Posts: 803
From: Co. Monaghan, Republic of Ireland
Registered: Mar 2009
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posted 09-25-2010 08:48 AM
Beautiful... |
capoetc
Member Posts: 2169
From: McKinney TX (USA)
Registered: Aug 2005
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posted 09-25-2010 09:51 AM
Looks like they scored a "hit" ... that thing sure is smokin'!  |
robsouth
Member Posts: 769
From: West Midlands, UK
Registered: Jun 2005
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posted 09-25-2010 06:05 PM
Awesome! As you Americans would say. |
Henk Boshuijer
Member Posts: 450
From: Netherlands
Registered: May 2007
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posted 09-25-2010 06:45 PM
Would be great to have this picture signed by the pilots and the shuttle crew... |
music_space
Member Posts: 1179
From: Canada
Registered: Jul 2001
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posted 09-25-2010 09:40 PM
And who took the picture??? |
Philip
Member Posts: 5952
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 09-26-2010 03:28 AM
Capt John Peltier (see Ed's photo credits). |
Rob Joyner
Member Posts: 1308
From: GA, USA
Registered: Jan 2004
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posted 09-26-2010 08:31 PM
After this photo was released I tried to find others that I assumed must have been taken during such an opportunity but could not find even one. Anyone else have better luck or was this actually the only photo taken from the jet? |
Fezman92
Member Posts: 1031
From: New Jersey, USA
Registered: Mar 2010
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posted 09-26-2010 09:20 PM
Don't they fly these for security reasons? If they do what do they think is going to happen? I mean it's the space shuttle. Isn't a hard target to hit? |
JPSastro
Member Posts: 170
From: Tucson, Arizona
Registered: Jan 2009
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posted 09-26-2010 10:49 PM
CAPs... Combat Air Patrols are now flown armed with air to air ordnance. This is in case any aerial threat such as an encroachment by a "wayward" aircraft creates a potential threat to a ground based event or aerial operation.Such are flown at any major sporting events, i.e. Super Bowl, World Series. When Air Force One is in the area (last time Pres. Bush was here two USAF PaveHawk copters circled around my neighborhood prior to Air Force One's arrival over my house and followed it in to Davis Monthan AFB, it was a neat operation to watch). You may have seen the news that CAP missions have had a few intercepts that made the press. We practice scramble (IN FULL after burner) a pair of F-16's on a regular basis here in Tucson. Sorry to say it is a necessary operation, especially in this day and age. |
btguest
Member Posts: 28
From: Waldorf, MD
Registered: Oct 2008
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posted 09-27-2010 01:21 AM
The 333d FS is my old squadron! I had already moved on by the time they supported this shuttle launch, but its good to see a red tail again! |
Fezman92
Member Posts: 1031
From: New Jersey, USA
Registered: Mar 2010
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posted 09-27-2010 06:18 AM
Okay thanks, I live about an hour from the Ft. Dix area, an hour from Dover AFB and an hour from an Air National Guard/Air Force, Coast Guard base and there is a Chinook maintenance station in the town next to mine so I get stuff over my house all the time. Mainly Chinooks and A-10s... |
Hart Sastrowardoyo
Member Posts: 3445
From: Toms River, NJ
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 09-27-2010 10:16 AM
I cover on occasion the Joint Base McGuire-Fort Dix-Lakehurst. Most of the stuff we get flying by are the big transports or the tankers, although it is neat to look up and realize, "Hey! That's an Orion!" |
ilbasso
Member Posts: 1522
From: Greensboro, NC USA
Registered: Feb 2006
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posted 09-27-2010 12:22 PM
I find it interesting to look at the shadow of the Shuttle's exhaust trail. When I watch Shuttle launches on TV - and even just looking at the Shuttle's smoke trail by itself in this photo - I get the impression that it is arcing over to a greater extent than it really is. Looking at the shadow of the plume, you can readily tell that the Shuttle is much more going "up" than "over." |
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