How To Film a Shuttle launch

[Garry Russell]

Just study this...........and do the opposite

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4097LDOvsg&NR=1

[airboatr]

I'd say by the sound of his accent, he's not from the area mate.
momentarily disoriented was all.

.. I once took some great pictures in Chicago only to find out later I had taken them on magic disappearing film I bought by mistake.

[Garry Russell]

He's British and impatient too

The impatience probably stopped him setting it up properly

[airboatr]

He was located in the VIP viewing area.
I photographed a night launch of Shuttle from that area myself....
suffices to say ...there was no problem identifying which launch pad was being used.

[Garry Russell]

It must be hard though Joe

There are two launch pad side by side....but which one do you aim the camera at???

One is empty with the gantry swung back

The other has a deta winged spacecraft strapped to two huge boosters sitting on the side of an enormous browish-orange tank leaking vapour from various parts of it's anatomy

Easy mistake to make really

[FlyTexas]

Too funny!

Brian

[airboatr]

I got it Garry... It was probably a hot chic that walked by swinging her stuff... distracted him.

They've been know to make men drive straight into tress , poles, fences.. what ave ya.

[Garry Russell]

Is that why you get a Christmas card from the local body shop??

[airboatr]

If thats the case..
Thats probably why you don't have one , eh?

naughty man...

[steelsporran]

With a white-haired spokesman called Chester Whitehair I thought it was going to be a spoof. Then calling the Delta 2 explosion an "anomaly" didn't help.