Live tweets from Hollywood.
I sent out a tweet to correct the one that said it was F-16s escorting. I’m pretty sure it was a couple of Dryden’s F-18s (at least that’s what it looked like when it flew over the house).
Live tweets from Hollywood.
I sent out a tweet to correct the one that said it was F-16s escorting. I’m pretty sure it was a couple of Dryden’s F-18s (at least that’s what it looked like when it flew over the house).
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Those were F-18’s. Dryden has 2 F-18A single seat and 2 F-18B 2 seat aircraft, all ex-Navy.
Is Lance Bass clueless or too busy being professionally gay to read the news?
(that brings up a question, are there stars in Hollywood now who claim to be gay to keep their careers going, the same way they used to hide it?)
Oh, come on. Very few people know aircraft well enough to make that distinction. Lance Bass happens to love space, wants to travel there himself and is very much on our side, so if you need to correct him, don’t do it snidely. Do it as you would to someone who would be genuinely interested in the aircraft and their history.
Just read through the tweets. Wasn’t even Lance who made the mistake. All I can say though is that almost all of the folks there were excited and saying that the Shuttle and American Space flight really is important to them, if not part of their day to day existance and certainly not as part of their training. We need to reach these people and let them know the adventure has not ended: it is only beginning.
I must agree. That they could pull themselves away from their very self contained world to notice what was happening around them is very encouraging.
BTW, no surprise that Hanks was one of the tweets as he is almost as much of a space cadet as some of us here.
On a slightly different topic, what is your opinion of the Romney/Ryan space policy white paper that was released? I am surprised you haven’t posted a link here.
http://www.mittromney.com/blogs/mitts-view/2012/09/securing-leadership-space
Its interesting to see the campaigns dueling on space for once 🙂
I was at a baseball game in San Francisco yesterday; during the 7th inning stretch when they were playing “God Bless America” they showed clips of the shuttle’s overflight of San Francisco. Lots of applause from the fans–the shuttle seemed to be quite popular.
It looked like a single F-16 escorting the shuttle on its Bay Area overflight to me, but I didn’t get a very good look.