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ving
23-02-2005, 01:51 PM
Hi pplz,
Just thought I'd share with yas something interesting happened at my astro socs meeting on monday night...

We always have a guest speaker and this nights was really interesting. Peter Elston of Qantas came in to tell us about his experience in solar eclipse chasing. In 2003 He piloted a Qantas boing 474 full of eclipse chasing passengers down to the antarctic so they could stay in the shadow of the eclipse for about 3 mins....
He showed a dvd on the journey and heaps of pics. Really was and interesting talk. some of the pics he showed us were really eyepoping!

the seats were up to $11k each!

http://www.eurospacecenter.be/conf281103moon.jpg

just thought I'd share :)

iceman
23-02-2005, 02:00 PM
Sounds awesome Ving!

Unfortunately I had to edit your post and remove the link to the 1.2meg image you posted!

Please resize/save as smaller file and repost if you want :)

ving
23-02-2005, 02:01 PM
sorry I had no idea how big it was... :confused:
thnx mike.

MiG
23-02-2005, 05:02 PM
Boeing 747 perhaps? :P
Sorry, I can't let it slip. I'm working at Boeing.

ving
23-02-2005, 06:06 PM
that'd be the one! :P