astro soc meeting

[ving (David)]

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 (Mike)]

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 (David)]

sorry I had no idea how big it was...
thnx mike.

[MiG]

Originally posted by ving
...boing 474...

Boeing 747 perhaps?
Sorry, I can't let it slip. I'm working at Boeing.

[ving (David)]

that'd be the one!