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Endeavour's Ames flyby
Fred J. McCall used his keyboard to write :
Snidely wrote: On Friday, Orval Fairbairn asserted: Rick Jones wrote: Now, here is a chase plane in NASA livery down at LAX, but it looks like an F/A-18 derivative? http://www.flickr.com/photos/bravo45...331045/in/pool -spaceshuttleendeavour/ F-18. It was also an F-18 when they landed at Edwards. What's an F-18? Who makes it? Who flies it? That would be F/A-18, unless you're Swiss. Indeed. [...] The paint makes me wonder if Dryden has the old Northrop YF-17 'in stock'. They painted them that way during the 'light fighter' fly-off. It was the 'land based' prototype that the F/A-18 was built off of. Interesting; there's no end of background material most of us will never know about. /dps -- Who, me? And what lacuna? |
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Peter Stickney explained on 9/22/2012 :
Rick Jones wrote: Now, here is a chase plane in NASA livery down at LAX, but it looks like an F/A-18 derivative? http://www.flickr.com/photos/bravo45...31045/in/pool- spaceshuttleendeavour/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bravo45...29539/in/pool- spaceshuttleendeavour/ Two chase: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lomara/8010555486/in/pool- spaceshuttleendeavour/ Sedan Model (2-seat) F-18, one of NASA's fleet. I didn't see the cahse planes land (they flew by on the SCA's landing, with instructions "don't initiate the climb until you're over the water"). Was I just not alert enough, or did they head back to Dryden, or on to a nearby military strip? /dps -- Who, me? And what lacuna? |
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Endeavour's Ames flyby
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Peter Stickney explained on 9/22/2012 : Rick Jones wrote: Now, here is a chase plane in NASA livery down at LAX, but it looks like an F/A-18 derivative? http://www.flickr.com/photos/bravo45...31045/in/pool- spaceshuttleendeavour/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bravo45...29539/in/pool- spaceshuttleendeavour/ Two chase: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lomara/8010555486/in/pool- spaceshuttleendeavour/ Sedan Model (2-seat) F-18, one of NASA's fleet. I didn't see the cahse planes land (they flew by on the SCA's landing, with instructions "don't initiate the climb until you're over the water"). Was I just not alert enough, or did they head back to Dryden, or on to a nearby military strip? Can't say, I'm on the other coast adn my glasses aren't strong enough. But the NASA F-18s are based at Dryden, so I'd assume they get back there at some point. -- Pete Stickney From the foothills of the Florida Alps |
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Endeavour's Ames flyby
Snidely wrote:
Fred J. McCall used his keyboard to write : Snidely wrote: On Friday, Orval Fairbairn asserted: Rick Jones wrote: Now, here is a chase plane in NASA livery down at LAX, but it looks like an F/A-18 derivative? http://www.flickr.com/photos/bravo45...331045/in/pool -spaceshuttleendeavour/ F-18. It was also an F-18 when they landed at Edwards. What's an F-18? Who makes it? Who flies it? That would be F/A-18, unless you're Swiss. Indeed. [...] The paint makes me wonder if Dryden has the old Northrop YF-17 'in stock'. They painted them that way during the 'light fighter' fly-off. It was the 'land based' prototype that the F/A-18 was built off of. Interesting; there's no end of background material most of us will never know about. I don't think the YF-17's still around. (These aren't - the F/A-18 has a bigger nose than the really pointy (essentially radar-less YF-17) But it is pretty close to the Northrop company scheme that the YF-17 carried - it's about the only way to make a Plastic Bug look good. (Plastic Bug is one of the unoffial names used by the operators, due to the fairly large amounts of composites in its construction, the Offical Popular Name (Hornet) and that with that long trailing link main gear set well aft, when it's in the landing approach, it looks like a hornet or wasp.) -- Pete Stickney From the foothills of the Florida Alps |
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Endeavour's Ames flyby
On Sep 22, 9:29*pm, Peter Stickney wrote:
Snidely wrote: Fred J. McCall used his keyboard to write : Snidely wrote: [...] The paint makes me wonder if Dryden has the old Northrop YF-17 'in stock'. *They painted them that way during the 'light fighter' fly-off. *It was the 'land based' prototype that the F/A-18 was built off of. Interesting; there's no end of background material most of us will never know about. I don't think the YF-17's still around. (These aren't - the F/A-18 has a bigger nose than the really pointy (essentially radar-less YF-17) YF-17 Aircraft on display YF-17 Cobra, s/n 72-1569, is on display at the Western Museum of Flight in Torrance, California.[8] YF-17 Cobra, s/n 72-1570 is on display at the Battleship Memorial Park in Mobile, Alabama.[9] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_YF-17 Only the pair were built. Andre |
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