I missed a shuttle launch due to weather. I read that the Apollo launches rattled windows miles away. That would have been a sight to feel... The 'incidents' have to be kind of frightening and exciting all at once.
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I missed a shuttle launch due to weather. I read that the Apollo launches rattled windows miles away. That would have been a sight to feel... The 'incidents' have to be kind of frightening and exciting all at once.
The photo was taken across the street from my house, 40 miles from the launch. Watched live TV on my phone to make sure I wasn't standing in the dark waiting for a launch scratched in the last minute. Got to the final countdown 10...9... I look and it is clearing the trees before the TV told me it launched! Love night launches and debated on driving over where can get a clear view across the river, 5 miles away. Actually watched John Glenn's second return to space from there.
The photo posted with the stage separation returning to earth and the capsule proceeding on was one of the last I took. As I reached my home, began hearing the rumble of the initial launch as the sound finally made it the 40 miles.
You can hear a sonic boom as the booster re-enters the atmosphere, but what really rattle windows was the twin sonic booms when the shuttle returned...and many times could see it overhead as approach was from the Gulf and across the State, directly over Orlando metro area. Most memorable was one time when not even aware that was returning, walked across the parking lot to my car, got in, turned key in the ignition and BOOM...BOOM. Freaked me out! Had to touch myself to assure that I was still alive.
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Hah! Yeah, my mom lived in the approach for an alternate airport for the Concorde, and was always surprised when it came in. It taking off was worse, she said, because those engines weren't very quiet. Stuff used to fall off shelves all over the house. I can only imagine how bad it was. A local startup flew DC-9-50's out of the airport miles away from here, and that plane would rattle the damn windows. They stopped flying them probably because of the incredible noise. There was a cargo carrier that flew C-130's in and out, and they were nothing compared to that carriers DC-9's. Holy Poop!!! I HATED those things. I grew up on a military base and got used to loud planes, and for some reason their DC (Mad Dog?) took the awards. It obviously didn't have a hush kit, or something... (Back then, we had a C-130 miss the roof of our apartment complex by literal FEET! There was a lot of brush that had to be cleared up in the yards and parking lot. The plane supposedly didn't make the approach end of the runway and crashed in a swamp. I can't remember anyone specifically saying what happened to the plane. I imagine it wasn't survivable, and seems odd I can't remember it being an issue. Weird, but I was pretty young then)
A friend tried to catch a shuttle launch, but every time he was down there, the damn launches were cancelled. Once, he flew down, missed the launch from the plane, drove over there twice, and each time it was cancelled, and it was cancelled on the way out on his flight home. It finally did launch. People complained about how the launches were so unpredictable. Getting down to the final seconds, and scrubbing. I'm surprised there weren't more accidents, sad to say. Still would have loved to see one launch, FEEL one launch)
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I used to go a computer store in a strip mall in Simi Valley. One day I heard this tremendous roar and the glass windows were shaking. He said the Rocketdyne had a test bed for the shuttle engines and that it would only last for 10-15 seconds, well it lasted about a minute to 2 minutes. We could see the steam and smoke clearly. I can only imagine what 3 engines would sound like.
Green houses, purple doors and red bougainvillea
Love the door, love the doorway.
While on holiday in Italy, I was the one taking pictures of all the just freaking amazing doors! So amazing!!!
I probably posted it in POTD as is one of my favorites from 5 years ago, but not in Photo Association. Easy to remember date as daughter was in pre-labor, delivering the next day our now 5y/o grandson. During our trip this year, returned to Romainmontier but the house was just not the same. They ruined it by cleaning it up. And the coffeeshop inside the old walled city was a letdown to. Sitting in the courtyard was OK, but they didn't have the big spread layout to choose from. I think we got the last two or three of the solo offering.
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Colourful storefronts, village mall ... purples, oranges, et al.
Primate carving on the porch above…..
Primate enjoying her lunch….
Primate enjoying her lunch….
It got a bit quiet in this thread.
Old logs and fruit are the associated items from the last photo.
Old logs and fruit are the associated items from the last photo.
What happens when you leave that wood pile all alone, in the dark... YIKES!!! Indiscriminate breeding!
Wood exterior, wood burning stove inside -- winter warming hut in Manning Park, BC.
Sign greeting customers entering the restaurant/pub at the 'Sasquatch Inn', Harrison Mills, BC, when we dropped by earlier this year.
