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Showing posts with label flight. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flight. Show all posts

Friday, September 25, 2009

Zero G or Bust!



Bye everyone, we are off to fly the Weightless Flight of Discovery on Tuesday! Here’s a website that tells a little more about it, if you are interested … our exact flight begins at 11 AM.  Think of us!!!

Wednesday, July 01, 2009

Cool.

This widely circulated new photo shows a Air Force F-22 Raptor aircraft participating in an exercise in the Gulf of Alaska June 22, 2009 as it executes a supersonic flyby over the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis.

The visual phenomenon, which sometimes but not always accompanies the breaking of the sound barrier, has also been seen with nuclear blasts and just after space shuttles launches, too. A vapor cone was photographed as the Apollo 11 moon-landing mission rocketed skyward in 1969.


Read the whole story here.