It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the There's nothing like being prepared. -- Dave GS 850 x2 / SE 6a SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3 FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10
It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "Steve Parry" Nope. 'Tis the stuff it hits can be. A mere side effect of living in an oxygen environment. -- Dave GS 850 x2 / SE 6a SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3 FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10
It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember (The Older Gentleman) saying something like: One. Just refreshed my memory - seems there were no officially designated craft between Ap1 and Ap4. 2 and 3 were probably used as test vehicles until they ironed out the problem of crispy crews. -- Dave GS 850 x2 / SE 6a SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3 FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10
It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the Well, no. Strictly speaking it isn't. Doesn't mean I'd run down the street towards the scen of the crash though. Especially not if I happened to be clutching a hot coal. -- Dave GS 850 x2 / SE 6a SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3 FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10
It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the Goes without saying. Followed by running like **** t'other direction. -- Dave GS 850 x2 / SE 6a SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3 FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10
Grimly Curmudgeon wrote something that forced Chris to don his anorak: And Apollo 1 was called Apollo/Saturn 204 until after the event when it was named one in honour of the dead crew.
It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "Chris H" Ah yes. I remember that anomaly - at the time I don't recall it being referred to as Apollo One or anything memorable. Most of the pre-accident hype centred round the big firecracker under it. -- Dave GS 850 x2 / SE 6a SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3 FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10
At 15 tons of fuel a second on the later 'block 2[1]' first stages I would loved to have seen one take off 'live[2]'. But not pay for the fuel bill. [1] The ones that went to the moon with lunar rovers attached. [2] From a safe distance. I'm told with the Apollos and to a lesser extent with the shuttle all wild life especially birds drop dead within half a click of the launch table. Not normally mentioned as its in the middle of a wild life sanctuary.
The noise level. It's powerful stuff. I've got some video of an Ariane 5 taking off. It was shot from a helicopter some distance away with a *big* telephoto lens. According to the pilot who I was drinking with afterwards, he hadn't noticed he was in line with one of the flame ducts. The noise when it hit his helicopter main rotor had the effect of loosing a large amount of his lift. He said he had the camera man hollering over the intercom to keep it still and he was trying hard to keep it in the air.
