Heads up - WB-57 ascent imagery coming up on NASA-TV ASAP

Here you go, Pat. Scheduled to start right about now, per the PAO
voiceover guy.

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On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 15:45:56 -0500, Herb Schaltegger wrote
(in article ):

Here you go, Pat. Scheduled to start right about now, per the PAO
voiceover guy.



Alright - these were less than impressive videos, at least as seen over
a mid-rate 'net connection. Too jittery, too blurry to be more than a
curiosity, it would seem. I'd very much like to see the raw video
collected, however, before it was transcoded however many times and
dumped out in craptacular RealVideo format.

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I saw it on the satellite feed. Very jittery and low contrast, but maybe
useful on a frame-by-frame basis. I think I would have risked flying closer
to the ascent.
Cole


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On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 15:45:56 -0500, Herb Schaltegger wrote
(in article ):

Here you go, Pat. Scheduled to start right about now, per the PAO
voiceover guy.



Alright - these were less than impressive videos, at least as seen over
a mid-rate 'net connection. Too jittery, too blurry to be more than a
curiosity, it would seem. I'd very much like to see the raw video
collected, however, before it was transcoded however many times and
dumped out in craptacular RealVideo format.

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Does JSC have any problems maintaining the two Canberras, since they're so
old and spare parts aren't plentiful?

On 2005-07-27, Neil Gerace wrote:
Does JSC have any problems maintaining the two Canberras, since they're so
old and spare parts aren't plentiful?

The RAF still operates about ten - No.39 Squadron out of Marham - for
reconnaisance purposes. I think they're the only current military
operator - though it wouldn't surprise me if Chile or somewhere still
has one or two in service - but presumably if they keep a number in
service they must have a supply of spare parts.

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On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 11:03:59 +0800, "Neil Gerace"
wrote:

Does JSC have any problems maintaining the two Canberras, since they're so
old and spare parts aren't plentiful?

There are a lot of parts available at Davis-Monthan and the engines
stayed in use after the airframes were mothballed, so there's a good
supply available.

Older aircraft like that are easier to maintain because it's possible
to make a replacement part in the machine shop; that's part of how we
kept the F-104s flying so long.

Mary

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