Space Shuttle at the NAS JRB in Ft Worth

[pjt72611]

The space shuttle landed at the NAS JRB in west Fort Worth today at around 14:45. Not sure if this is an overnight or a refueling stop. If you get a chance grab your camera and head to the JRB. I am out of luck, no camera with me.

[MikeyG1965]

Darnit...I thought I saw it in the air but my wife said I was crazy :(

[ChristopherCoy]

We are in the landing path, and I never heard a thing....

[digitaldude400d]

Grrrrrrrrr I hate that I misssed it. I was lucky enough to catch a few shots of it last year when it made a unplanned landing.

[groovyone]

Suuure, didn't come to Houston to see those of us that have done work for it...

[toverman]

From the very little info I can find online (someone updated Wikipedia for Sept. 20, 2009), the landing in FW was just a refueling stop and the bird has already flown off. I camped out for about an hour with about 40 other people at a park north of the base last January and it flew right over our heads. Awesome opportunity, and besides the sun washing out the blue sky as it left the runway, got some pretty decent shots.

[dbphotos]

Where's Captain Tom?

[toverman]

Originally Posted by dbphotos

Where's Captain Tom?

The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported that a gray-haired man with a ton of camera gear was arrested after he ran onto the runway to try to get photos of the shuttle.

[CaptainTom]

It wasn't me I swear. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

I was at TPPA until 1pm when I drove back to Ft. Worth and spent the day grocery shopping. Never saw or heard anything.

I was here on its last visit, so this is probably what it looked like.

[Imagebuffet]

I was able to confirm on the KDAF website that the Space Shuttle landed for only 2 hours in Ft. Worth, before flying to Shreveport, where it will spend the night.

http://www.the33tv.com/news/kdaf-spa...0,959239.story

http://www.the33tv.com/news/sns-ap-u...,4218492.story

[dmora]

Originally Posted by ChristopherCoy

We are in the landing path, and I never heard a thing....

its a glider when it re-enters from orbit.

dmora added 1 Minutes and 51 Seconds later...Double Post Merged Below

Damn i think its so cool that an old 747 can lift that huge thing.

[ChristopherCoy]

Originally Posted by dmora

its a glider when it re-enters from orbit.

Right, but we can hear cessnas landing, so I'm sure we would have heard the 747 carrying it.

[dmora]

Originally Posted by ChristopherCoy

Right, but we can hear cessnas landing, so I'm sure we would have heard the 747 carrying it.

Yea i didnt realize that it was on piggyback mode.

[johnastovall]

Originally Posted by dmora

its a glider when it re-enters from orbit.

dmora added 1 Minutes and 51 Seconds later...Double Post Merged Below

Damn i think its so cool that an old 747 can lift that huge thing.

It's not a big deal for the 747-100

• Crew: 4: pilot, co-pilot, 2 flight engineers (1 flight engineer when not carrying Shuttle)
• Length: 231 ft 4 in (70.5 m)
• Wingspan: 195 ft 8 in (59.7 m)
• Height: 63 ft 5 in (19.3 m)
• Wing area: 5,500 ft² (510 m²)
• Empty weight: 318,000 lb (144,200 kg)
• Max takeoff weight: 710,000 lb (322,000 kg)
• Powerplant: 4× P&W JT9D-7J turbofans, 50,000 lbf (222 kN) each

And empty shuttle is about 165,000 pounds and the max take off weight for the 747-100 is 710,00 so you have 545,000 pounds extra lift there.

[dmora]

Originally Posted by johnastovall

It's not a big deal for the 747-100

• Crew: 4: pilot, co-pilot, 2 flight engineers (1 flight engineer when not carrying Shuttle)
• Length: 231 ft 4 in (70.5 m)
• Wingspan: 195 ft 8 in (59.7 m)
• Height: 63 ft 5 in (19.3 m)
• Wing area: 5,500 ft² (510 m²)
• Empty weight: 318,000 lb (144,200 kg)
• Max takeoff weight: 710,000 lb (322,000 kg)
• Powerplant: 4× P&W JT9D-7J turbofans, 50,000 lbf (222 kN) each

And empty shuttle is about 165,000 pounds and the max take off weight for the 747-100 is 710,00 so you have 545,000 pounds extra lift there.

Its a hoss.