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Cool Proton launch pictures.
There's launching into a low overcast; and then there's this:
http://spaceflightnow.com/proton/exp...tonliftoff.jpg http://spaceflightnow.com/proton/exp...rotoncloud.jpg I think this would be outside spec for a Shuttle. I would be interesting to see what effect the Proton's motor exhaust had on the cloud. Pat |
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Cool Proton launch pictures.
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 03:27:41 -0600, Pat Flannery
wrote: There's launching into a low overcast; and then there's this: http://spaceflightnow.com/proton/exp...tonliftoff.jpg http://spaceflightnow.com/proton/exp...rotoncloud.jpg I think this would be outside spec for a Shuttle. I would be interesting to see what effect the Proton's motor exhaust had on the cloud. Pat Why is it the good photos are always at dinky resolution? |
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Cool Proton launch pictures.
Scott Ferrin wrote: Why is it the good photos are always at dinky resolution? In this case they are stills from a video...with luck, maybe someone got some actual photos of the launch. Pat |
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Cool Proton launch pictures.
Pat Flannery wrote: I would be interesting to see what effect the Proton's motor exhaust had on the cloud. Pat I've seen rising air from bonfires become whirl winds. Does that ever happen with the air heated by a rocket? -- Hop David http://clowder.net/hop/index.html |
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Hop David wrote: I've seen rising air from bonfires become whirl winds. Does that ever happen with the air heated by a rocket? What you would expect here is a terrific downwash of air due to the supersonic exhaust of the motors sucking all the air in the vicinity downwards as they pass through it; combined with a clearing of the air as the heat of the motor exhausts raise it to well above dew point- the thing should literally tunnel out a clear area though the clouds as it ascends. Pat |
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Cool Proton launch pictures.
Very cool photos! Thanks for posting the links.
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Cool Proton launch pictures.
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says... There's launching into a low overcast; and then there's this: http://www.graflex.org/articles/expe...d/apollo1.html I found that photo while doing some research on a long extinct camera. It was old-tech in 1910, but it was (according to the web site) used to photograph the first Saturn V as it punched through the clouds. -- Kevin Willoughby lid Imagine that, a FROG ON-OFF switch, hardly the work for test pilots. -- Mike Collins |
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Cool Proton launch pictures.
Kevin Willoughby wrote:
In article , says... There's launching into a low overcast; and then there's this: http://www.graflex.org/articles/expe...d/apollo1.html I found that photo while doing some research on a long extinct camera. It was old-tech in 1910, but it was (according to the web site) used to photograph the first Saturn V as it punched through the clouds. The Graflex is a perfectly good camera - in fact, with skill and a decent lens, it will make technically superior pictures to any 35 MM or digital camera. I wouldn't want to try to shoot a basketball game with it, but anything that's quasi-static is just fine. Brett |
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