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Shuttle Landing from the cockpit with HUD
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 01:23:25 -0800
________________________________________ From: bobr () bobrosenberg phoenix az us [bobr () bobrosenberg phoenix az us] Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 11:29 PM To: David Farber Subject: Shuttle Landing from the cockpit with HUD Dave Perhaps for IP. My son just sent this to me, and, altho I don't have a date for it, and it takes a few minutes, it's still very exciting to watch. It's a view most of us never see. Bob ---------- Forwarded message ---------- This lo-res 8.5MB (6min 45sec) video looks through the HUD (Heads Up Display) on the flight deck. You hear the flight deck audio of the three astronauts interacting. The video starts at about FL830 (83,000 ft), 260 Kts, Mach 2.5 velocity and 1.1 Gs. You'll hear the term HAC (Heading Alignment Cylinder) used a lot. It is the shuttle's version of a traffic pattern to line up with the runway centerline. It is a circular instead of rectangular pattern. http://www.wades.web.st/Video/atlantis_landing_comm.wmv -- Bob Rosenberg P.O. Box 33023 Phoenix, AZ 85067-3023 Mobile: 602-206-2856 LandLine: 602-274-3012 bob () bobrosenberg phoenix az us ************** "Civil government cannot let any group ride roughshod over others simply because their consciences tell them to do so." -- Robert H. Jackson While an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, Jackson was appointed Chief United States Prosecutor at the International War Crimes Tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany. "Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear." -- Harry S. Truman, message to Congress, August 8, 1950 ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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