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Anyone else love their job?

Sabrewings

Sabrewings

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Yeah, it has its downs, but what other job would I get to see cool **** like this every week. :cool:

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man now thats a experienced pilot to be able to land the shuttle on top of a plane.....



















so seriously how do they get that thing up there ?
 
We were talking about that today while we were walking around it. Can't get pics that close since cameras and phones aren't allowed past the point I took the above pic. One bigass crane is all we could come up with.
 


any idea of the curb weight of that thing sitting their is ? hard to believe that thing even makes it off the ground let alone fly across the country , id say its fuel milage is about 4" to the gallon
 
That's so freaking cool.

If you really wanna keep yourself occupied, look up space shuttle launch on youtube, and see all the different angles and stuff from it.

Very cool.
 
I can't say i got to play with anything that cool but i got to play with the f-14d for 2 years and the f/a18f for another 2 1/2 years
 
I remember when they were testing the shuttle fleet, specifically Enterprise. I remember watching a couple of test flights they did where they took the Enterprise up on a Jumbo and the used those exploding bolts or whatever to release it from the plane to do a glider test back to the runway.

I also have pictures of the very first shuttle mission flight, the first one into space.
 


Yes, this was very awesome to see. It landed here Wednesday night and left at noon. You don't get to see things like that very often. And if you can get a job where you can....I agree with you Sabre, its pretty damn cool.
 


SyntheticShield said:
You gotta get me more pictures, I love those kinds of shots.
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You asked for them....you shall receive. I don't use Photobucket, so here are a couple links from my TWS page.

Landing:

http://navyphotos.togetherweserved.com/1721310.jpg
http://navyphotos.togetherweserved.com/1721311.jpg
http://navyphotos.togetherweserved.com/1721205.jpg

Taking back off:

http://navyphotos.togetherweserved.com/1721317.jpg
http://navyphotos.togetherweserved.com/1721318.jpg


Enjoy!!! I know I did!! :D
 
Yup, I love my job...and yeah the shuttle on top of another plane is cool...we have had it land here once...Sheppard was (probably still is) an alternate landing site for it if Cape canaveral isn't an option due to weather or whatever. Somewhere in the squadron we have a photo of some Security Forces guys walking it from the taxiway to the hanger...pretty cool...except for the obscene amount of security it requires. Think protection = to presidential staff/senior executives and you get the idea!
 
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