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Space Shuttle jumps 9-18 04

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Ummm -- excuse me, but as dz.com's official space shuttle programmer B|, I'll have to be invited so that I can help prepare the software load. It is a fly-by-wire vehicle, y'know :D

Ummm -- I expect to get a T-shirt out of this, too :D

Wendy





BWWAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!! Now that is FUNNY!!:D


* for those who don't get it...she's telling the truth. Yes...she is a rocket scientist:D
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Yeah, like we didn't consider this 20 years ago . . . LOL!

A good friend of mine did the test jumps on the "bail out pole" that was going to be installed into the shuttle after the first failure. The pole was installed in a Convair (an A/C that's still sitting up at Cal City) and in full astronaut gear he jumped it. While it worked okay during the tests it was never implemented.

Unfortunately, a year later, and before we knew anything about line twists and a brand new canopy called a Stiletto, Bruce Gilkey rode one into the ground trying to kick out of line twists at Hemet, Ca.

That day really sucked . . .

Nick
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I forgot to mention the location will be just outside of Moscow as I will be working there for the next few weeks taking apart things that go boom . I will have my private fleet of retirement jets at jumpers disposal to get them to the boogie on time . I will be flying the shuttles there later today if anyone wants to go with me .



OMG you mean the Russians stole a space shuttle?

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I forgot to mention the location will be just outside of Moscow as I will be working there for the next few weeks taking apart things that go boom . I will have my private fleet of retirement jets at jumpers disposal to get them to the boogie on time . I will be flying the shuttles there later today if anyone wants to go with me .



OMG you mean the Russians stole a space shuttle?



Me thinks the russians are getting rid of some ICBM's. Fly by wire? don't need to land the thing just two folks to turn the key for T.O.. Hope they have the time to take the nukes off before launch time.

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Dare I ask about this? I would LOVE to hear the claim...



Its kinda a long story and has become an inside joke for some of the old DZ.commers who have been around when all of this was going on a number of years ago.

Its pretty funny now, at the time it was too actually.

I'd say search for it and read for a couple of hours, but all of those old posts are gone.
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