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Matt Molnar
2008-08-15, 11:29 PM
This has to be one of the luckiest angles ever captured...a shuttle launch as seen from a passing Air Canada flight. It was uploaded last month, so possibly STS-124.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d64_1216914646
stuart schechter
2008-08-15, 11:42 PM
"Holy Smokes!"
Matt Molnar
2008-08-15, 11:45 PM
Yeah, I forgot to warn you the guy's commentary is annoying, so it's best if you lower the volume. :)
PHL Approach
2008-08-16, 01:14 AM
Think he was Canadian? If so, remind me never to sit next to a Canadian on a flight during a shuttle launch.
Mateo
2008-08-16, 01:39 AM
Heh. I saw Discovery on the pad at Canaveral from a DCA-FLL flight a couple weeks prior.
cancidas
2008-08-16, 02:05 AM
that is SOO cool!
lijk604
2008-08-16, 09:18 AM
One would think the TFR should have been wider. Even though there was distance there, I really dont like the fact that a commercial airliner was that close to a launch.
Mateo
2008-08-16, 10:17 AM
The launches go out over the ocean, so when there's something coming off the cape, traffic to South Florida is routed SAV J174 OMN (Ormond Beach), and then the STAR for the destination. Northbound traffic goes ORL CRG, so it's probably not as close as it looks. The guy has a BC accent, but the launch was on a Saturday evening, which is prime-time for Caribbean-Canada charters, so I can't quite trace the flight.

Had the video gone on about 10 more seconds, we would have seen SRB separation.
Lezam
2008-08-16, 09:46 PM
Thats got to be the most annoying Canadian ever. Holy smokes! lol
Matt Molnar
2008-08-17, 08:02 PM
Thats got to be the most annoying Canadian ever.
I think Dane Cook gets that prize. Actually maybe this IS Dane Cook.
PHL Approach
2008-08-18, 12:27 AM
Thats got to be the most annoying Canadian ever.
I think Dane Cook gets that prize. Actually maybe this IS Dane Cook.

Dane Cook is from Mass unless you New Yorkers count that as Canada...? :twisted:
Matt Molnar
2008-08-18, 12:35 AM
Well, I'm dumb. I don't know why I thought he was from Canada.
wunaladreamin
2008-08-19, 06:21 PM
Hey you clowns I'M CANADIAN!!!!! And that guy is one annoying asshat!

That's a wild video though, not a vantage point you see from everytime.
Nick
2008-08-20, 12:01 PM
Thats got to be the most annoying Canadian ever.
I think Dane Cook gets that prize. Actually maybe this IS Dane Cook.

Dane Cook is from Mass unless you New Yorkers count that as Canada...? :twisted: Wherever he's from, he's not funny. Cool video.
corellian21
2008-08-29, 11:27 AM
awesome
Jetinder
2008-08-30, 09:13 PM
Thats a brilliant video, what a privilage to be in the right place and time to see one take off.