Shuttle Atlantis arrived back at NASA shuttle Landing Facicity (TTS) today. I had been planning and hoping WX would kill off a shuttle arrival into TTS and it did. Since it flew into EDW a week days back I had been anticipating the photographic opportunitues that would come with a 747 Carrier arrival with the Shuttle. After several days of disappointing cancellations re-routings I finally got my shots.
The Route was as follows,
EDW, AMA, OFF, HOP, TTS
The NASA DC-9 was just as much of treat to get. I knew it would be coming and I was just as happy to get that as the 747.
When the 747 arrived he requested a low pass over runway 33 broke it off and then circled to runway 15. Luckily for me I was basically in the middle of its arcing flight path to the other side. A steep bank and high sink rate right put the carrier right onto centerline quite nicely with about 2-3 miles of on the final. He sunk it right in! Thanks for Steve and Rafal for for the assistance and periodic updates while I was in the field.
Dispite a yellow sun, 98% humidity and haze everything turned out pretty nicely.
These are quick edits. just pulled a few shots here and there.
Shuttle Atlantis (departure) shots from a few weeks ago taken at SFB)
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