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Shuttle Endeavour: Disneyland, Getty on tap for L.A. flyover
Officials have revealed some details of space shuttle Endeavour's aerial tour of California, a final flight that is to include low-level passes over the state Capitol, San Francisco and several Los Angeles landmarks. Riding piggyback on a modified 747 aircraft, the retired shuttle will depart Edwards Air Force Base about 7:15 a.m. Friday and will fly low over Palmdale, Lancaster, Rosamond and Mojave before heading north to Sacramento, NASA officials said. There, Endeavour will fly over the… (latimesblogs.latimes.com) Más...Fly Shuttle, Fly!!!
Troy - There are no flights filed today between KTTS and KEFD. Therefore, the flight was again delayed by weather or has been exempted from flight tracking.
Latest word is for departure from Florida to Houston to occur tomorrow morning. https://twitter.com/NASAKennedy/status/248103634385129472
I was playing golf in Wilcox, AZ a while back and I heard what I thought was just a loud jet airliner passing by and none of us bothered to turn around to look at it. Found out later it was the Shuttle-747 combo making it's way back to Florida from Edwards AFB. Still kicking myself about that.
Watched the flyover at Patrick AFB, Florida this AM, a sight to remember.
www.ABC.com to find out which L.A. Landmarks it will fly over on Friday & when. (L.A. drivers warned not to stop or pull over or get distracted & take eyes off road while shuttle makes its low flyover. Good luck with that one.)