re: Pictures from days gone by....

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Check out the guy’s expression in the lower left corner.

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That is the clinical definition of “admiration’.

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It's seems crazy to me that this very odd thing still flies carrying large cargo and has a full time crew.

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why do you find that odd, baw?

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why do you find that odd, baw?

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Because it's such a freaky looking prop plane that's been flying since 1965. My mind keeps thinking there would be a newer model that looks less like it has down syndrome

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just an old freighter converted to haul aircraft fuselage parts from where they’re built to where they’ll be assembled

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A few weeks ago I woke up and watched a documentry about the super guppy flying freight. A cockpit window shattered in flight and they had trouble finding a replacement. That program is the only reason I even recognized the plane in the pic you posted.

It kind of blew my mind that the entire front end opens to load cargo and to do so they have to unhook all the connections for controls. It's bizarre as hell

I worked for bfgoodwrench aerospace building thrust reversers and inlet cowls for 737-300's as my first job back in the 90s so I find that kind of stuff interesting

I took that photo at Wallops Island in VA while there conducting assessment interviews. The Guppy was practicing "touch-and-go's" there that day. Again, just lucky timing to be there on the same day.

I have all sorts of NASA photos I have taken. As noted earlier, I have been fortunate enough to be in the right spot at times, and in places where the public normally doesn't have access. Like...

-- The vacuum dome at Plum Brook that used 80% of the aluminum in the USA one year.
-- The special gravel on the track paths at Cape Canaveral.
-- The mountain of glass at Promontory Point.
-- The wind tunnels at Glenn.
-- The million dollar space shuttle model to scale at Langley.
-- The radar at Wallops Island taken from Chincoteaque Island.
-- Range Control self-destruct switches.
-- The zip line down from the 39B launch gantry.
-- A launch pad tour two days before the very last shuttle launch.
-- Engine testing at Stennis.
-- Plenty of launches.

So on and so forth, where each has a unique story. You guys let me know if you ever want to see NASA photos and stories to match. They won't be as old as some of the photos posted on this topic thread, but they would certainly qualify as "days gone by" since the shuttle program is over and packed up.

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Markie Post in some sci-fi show

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My guess is Buck Rodgers

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Also, I'm old-- moved here in Summer 1972 when I was 7. Remember watching it go up; bugged my then-stepfather to drive around to see the site once construction was underway.

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My dad’s firm was marginally involved only with the 5 projection screens that were mounted on a gondola that could be raised or lowered from the floor to the ceiling.

Right before the building opened, he rode the gondola apparatus on a complete down-up-down cycle.

He was Airborne in WWII so heights weren’t a problem for him.

tl/dr: no pics csb Superdome gondola rider dad