Off subject but one of the most awesome aviation things I ever witnessed was back in the ‘80s when my daughters were little. The space shuttle made a loop around the DC beltway on a Sunday morning on the back of a 747. There is a bike trail that bridges the Washington beltway very near where we lived. The whole fam went up there but the bike bridge was too crowded so we stood on a hillside next to a soccer field. Soon it came out from behind the trees, so big, so low, so slow and so quiet that it gave me goose bumps. Didn’t take a picture but years later they were transporting one of the shuttles to its final resting place at Dulles and it flew right over where I worked (very near National Airport). Did get a picture that day but for some reason it wasn’t near as impressive that time.
