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    The forgotten Shuttle...

    Just came across this a few minutes ago. Now this is cool. Wow.

    http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-062512a.html

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    http://englishrussia.com/2006/09/14/...ssian-shuttle/

    http://englishrussia.com/2007/08/30/...space-shuttle/



    for a second I thought you were referring to this '' forgotten shuttle''
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    Amazing. I never heard of this mock-up. Sort of reminds me of those Concorde prototypes which had been forgotten. We must remember, without the original mock-ups no Shuttle or Concordes would have ever flown. Wonder if there is a 747 mock-up in existence.

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    The Buran will be ferried to JFK on top of the Antonov carrier for display next to the Enterprise at Intrepid!
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    Manny you don't know how badly I needed that laugh, thanks bro

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    Don't we all wish. Well, the joke used to be when someone went to the bathroom: "What did I miss?" the silly spotter would ask the rest of the crew. "The Space Shuttle escorted by a pair of SR-71s" or something along those lines.

    Now we will have to use "The Buran on top of the Antonov mother ship" since the Shuttle ACTUALLY came to JFK!!! lol
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    Ha, that was the best part about Enterprise coming here. It was THE "you missed it" joke for as long as I remember....and it actually happened!

    Oh. And I missed it. haha
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    Quote Originally Posted by Speedbird1 View Post
    Amazing. I never heard of this mock-up. Sort of reminds me of those Concorde prototypes which had been forgotten. We must remember, without the original mock-ups no Shuttle or Concordes would have ever flown. Wonder if there is a 747 mock-up in existence.
    Don't know about 747 mock-ups, but there is the cockpit of the Boeing 2707 SST prototype at the Hiller Museum (at SQL, one airport south of SFO). I can't find the pictures in my online photos, but they had it open at open cockpit day awhile back.

    http://www.hiller.org/sst.shtml

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