OK campers,

What is this . . . the best I could come up with was a mounting point
on the many-tired trailer you occassionally see being used to move
orbiters around. But, why the note indicated which way goes up? I
mean between all the times its been done and the use of in hand
procedures . . . this seems a little silly.

The winner gets an "I miss Henry (and Rusty, et al) t-shirt.

OK campers,

What is this . . . the best I could come up with was a mounting point
on the many-tired trailer you occassionally see being used to move
orbiters around. But, why the note indicated which way goes up? I
mean between all the times its been done and the use of in hand
procedures . . . this seems a little silly.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/Shuttle_mounting_point.JPG

The winner gets an "I miss Henry (and Rusty, et al) t-shirt.

Take care . . .

John

It's a JOKE!  Yes, even aerospace workers have a sense of humor.

The winner gets an "I miss Henry (and Rusty, et al) t-shirt.

Henry is alive and well and posts regularly to the arocket e-mail list.  I
know, e-mail lists are antiquated, but they have several advantages.  

OK campers,

What is this . . . the best I could come up with was a mounting point
on the many-tired trailer you occassionally see being used to move
orbiters around. But, why the note indicated which way goes up? I
mean between all the times its been done and the use of in hand
procedures . . . this seems a little silly.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/Shuttle_mounting_point.JPG

The winner gets an "I miss Henry (and Rusty, et al) t-shirt.

Henry is alive and well and posts regularly to the arocket e-mail
list. I know, e-mail lists are antiquated, but they have several
advantages. One of which is you can ban trouble makers very easily,
which greatly increases the signal to noise ratio.

The only way I keep the signal to noise ratio down in the sci.space
groups is a liberal use of a killfile.

Another kook filter is to restrict messages cross-posted to more than
three newsgroups. Many such folk seem compelled to spew their dreck
as widely as possible, and most replies don't trim out irrelevant
groups, so I get to miss a lot of nonsense.

John <pelchat at (no spam) charter.net> wrote in
news:bb8e6e71-cc71-4b2b-b25d-e3d67ffd7365 at (no spam) t54g2000hsg.googlegroups.com:

OK campers,

What is this . . . the best I could come up with was a mounting point
on the many-tired trailer you occassionally see being used to move
orbiters around. But, why the note indicated which way goes up? I
mean between all the times its been done and the use of in hand
procedures . . . this seems a little silly.

It's an aft(?) mounting point on one of the converted 747 Shuttle carriers,
and yes, it's silly. More or less identical to the mounting points on
the External Tank and plugs into the same location on the orbiter. The
trailers probably have a similar mount.

Could it be possible . . . something as good as back in the day when
this place was haunt of Pad Rat and others? I for one, hope so

"John" <pelchat at (no spam) charter.net> wrote in message
news:bb8e6e71-cc71-4b2b-b25d-e3d67ffd7365 at (no spam) t54g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
OK campers,

What is this . . . the best I could come up with was a mounting point
on the many-tired trailer you occassionally see being used to move
orbiters around. But, why the note indicated which way goes up? I
mean between all the times its been done and the use of in hand
procedures . . . this seems a little silly.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/Shuttle_mounting_point.JPG

The winner gets an "I miss Henry (and Rusty, et al) t-shirt.


As Damon pointed out, this is on the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft. Yes, folks
there have a sense of humor.

I believe this photo was taken by our very own Jorge R. Frank. He's
provided several for use in Dennis Jenkin's book Space Shuttle.

I do wonder (and will leave it to Jorge to answer) if this photo is in fact
his, if this photo is in the public domain.

Greg D. Moore (Strider) wrote:
"John" <pelchat at (no spam) charter.net> wrote in message
news:bb8e6e71-cc71-4b2b-b25d-e3d67ffd7365 at (no spam) t54g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
OK campers,

What is this . . . the best I could come up with was a mounting point
on the many-tired trailer you occassionally see being used to move
orbiters around. But, why the note indicated which way goes up? I
mean between all the times its been done and the use of in hand
procedures . . . this seems a little silly.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/Shuttle_mounting_point.JPG

The winner gets an "I miss Henry (and Rusty, et al) t-shirt.


As Damon pointed out, this is on the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft. Yes, folks
there have a sense of humor.

I believe this photo was taken by our very own Jorge R. Frank. He's
provided several for use in Dennis Jenkin's book Space Shuttle.

I do wonder (and will leave it to Jorge to answer) if this photo is in fact
his, if this photo is in the public domain.

That photo is way too good to be anything I shot. Had to be Kim Keller.

On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 02:11:51 -0500, Damon Hill
damon1SIX1 at (no spam) comcast.netnet> wrote:


The other mount says "Lefty loosy, righty tighty".

Mary "Just a bit of humor"
--
Mary Shafer Retired aerospace research engineer
We didn't just do weird stuff at Dryden, we wrote reports about it.
reunite.gondwana at (no spam) gmail.com or miliff at (no spam) qnet.com
Visit my blog at http://thedigitalknitter.blogspot.com/

On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:22:55 -0500, "Jorge R. Frank"
jrfrank at (no spam) ibm-pc.borg> wrote:

Greg D. Moore (Strider) wrote:
"John" <pelchat at (no spam) charter.net> wrote in message
news:bb8e6e71-cc71-4b2b-b25d-e3d67ffd7365 at (no spam) t54g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
OK campers,

What is this . . . the best I could come up with was a mounting point
on the many-tired trailer you occassionally see being used to move
orbiters around. But, why the note indicated which way goes up? I
mean between all the times its been done and the use of in hand
procedures . . . this seems a little silly.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/Shuttle_mounting_point.JPG

The winner gets an "I miss Henry (and Rusty, et al) t-shirt.

As Damon pointed out, this is on the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft. Yes, folks
there have a sense of humor.

I believe this photo was taken by our very own Jorge R. Frank. He's
provided several for use in Dennis Jenkin's book Space Shuttle.

I do wonder (and will leave it to Jorge to answer) if this photo is in fact
his, if this photo is in the public domain.
That photo is way too good to be anything I shot. Had to be Kim Keller.

Maybe Tom Landers or someone else from the Dryden photo lab.

The SCA
lives at Dryden, after all.

Mary "You did remember that, didn't you?"

That photo is way too good to be anything I shot. Had to be Kim Keller.

On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:22:55 -0500, "Jorge R. Frank"
jrfrank at (no spam) ibm-pc.borg> wrote:

That photo is way too good to be anything I shot. Had to be Kim Keller.

Maybe Tom Landers or someone else from the Dryden photo lab. The SCA
lives at Dryden, after all.

Mary "You did remember that, didn't you?"

--
Mary Shafer Retired aerospace research engineer
We didn't just do weird stuff at Dryden, we wrote reports about it.
reunite.gondwana at (no spam) gmail.com or miliff at (no spam) qnet.com
Visit my blog at http://thedigitalknitter.blogspot.com/