On a side note: the last flying aircraft, N905NA, was relocated to Ellington Airfield in Houston,TX in late October 2012. It is expected that this will be her final retirement location. Her engines will be shipped back via land to Palmdale and NASA SOFIA (if nothing else changes).
HaveBlue From United States of America, joined Jan 2004, 2073 posts, RR: 1 Reply 2, posted (6 months 3 weeks 3 days 9 hours ago) and read 3258 times:
Eksath thanks for sharing. I won't have time to read them until later this week, but I'm looking forward to it. I was there for the last 2 flights, as well as others previously, and I will miss seeing them.
eksath From United States of America, joined Aug 2004, 1154 posts, RR: 27 Reply 3, posted (6 months 3 weeks 2 days 4 hours ago) and read 3131 times:
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Quoting HaveBlue (Reply 2): Eksath thanks for sharing. I won't have time to read them until later this week, but I'm looking forward to it. I was there for the last 2 flights, as well as others previously, and I will miss seeing them.
Not a problem. Part III will come out early next week.
unattendedbag From United States of America, joined Oct 2003, 2243 posts, RR: 1 Reply 5, posted (6 months 2 weeks 2 days 11 hours ago) and read 2765 times:
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Quoting unattendedbag (Reply 5): All very interesting! Can't wait for the next installment!
Thank you John.
The slight delay in the final part is due to a rewrite that I am doing. I have been having a long post mission debrief with some of the flight crew on the last two ferry hence I feel that that the story won't be complete without the added information and anecdotes.
I promise some of the details will be not be seen anywhere but in the last part.