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Space Shuttle Discovery might be coming to EDW!

Started by akradecki, September 09, 2009, 07:17:37 PM

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Now that I've had time to go thru the pics a little more leisurely, here are a few more. Two helos were supporting the effort, a Navy SAR SH-60F from China Lake and an Army UH-1H from Ft. Irwin. The G-2 is NASA's approach practice bird, which had been up evaluating the winds before the landing, and which did a low pass over the shuttle after it stopped on the runway - it's specially modified to fly with only the mains extended, so that drag is used to duplicate the Shuttle's approach profile.
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You would think that EDW would be able to handle the helo duty without any outside help.   Guess not....
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Quote from: phantomphan1974 on September 15, 2009, 09:15:06 PM
You would think that EDW would be able to handle the helo duty without any outside help.   Guess not....
As far as I know, they don't have any permanently stationed helo units there. (But of course, I reserve the right to be corrected!) VX-31's SAR unit handles rescue duties for the entire R-2508 complex, not just China Lake.
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I (in my opinion) don't think the U.S.A.F. has that many helicopter units. So, I don't think one is likely to be based at Edwards.
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Here's some APSoCal-ers (Jim Mumaw - aka gfydad, and Michael Darcy - sr-aeronut) during today's media visit with Discovery.
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A few of the pics from today (mostly re-runs to those of you who've already seen my Facebook album)
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Here's my bunch so far.  ;)

robin990

What ever happened to the Edwards base UH-1Ns ? The white and oranges ones ?

akradecki

Quote from: robin990 on September 17, 2009, 09:32:03 PM
What ever happened to the Edwards base UH-1Ns ? The white and oranges ones ?
How long ago was that? I haven't seen anything like those in the recent times I've been out there.
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