Space Shuttle Landing Facility, Low Approach Runway 33

[Bunti]

I just uploaded a video of a low approach of the Space Shuttle Landing Facility in Florida.

I flew a few times over this remarkable airport and enjoyed it very much. This time I mounted an action camera at the tiedown-mount of my Mooney M20F and filmed the approach.

Groundspeed was about 140 knots during the overflight.

 

[kris_adams]

very cool.  No taxiways.  I guess the shuttle didn't need them lol.  Thanks for sharing. 

[jrwilson]

Do they have a shuttle still there as a display?

[Bunti]

On the right side at about middle of the runway,  you see a parked Shuttle. It looks real but I believe it is a mockup and not a real Space Shuttle. 

[HIghpockets]

I flew this low approach several years ago while attending a Mooney PPP in Melbourne. As I recall it's  15,000 feet of runway.

 

[Bunti]

15,000 feet plus an additional 1,000 feet at both ends as stopway.

[jaylw314]

30 minutes ago, Kris_Adams said:

very cool.  No taxiways.  I guess the shuttle didn't need them lol.  Thanks for sharing. 

Are you kidding?  It was landing on the single biggest and longest taxiway in the world!  

[Skates97]

This has been on my bucket list from the first time I saw someone's youtube video of it.

[Yetti]

SPS 34 back taxi one five

[fantom]

TF-104G doing some formation flying around Kennedy Space Center.

Buckle up and enjoy.....    https://theaviationgeekclub.com/cool-video-shows-starfighters-tf-104g-intercepting-gulfstream-g650er-business-jet-during-world-record-flight-one-more-orbit/

 

[bob865]

I didn't know this was a thing.  I flew right by all of this on my way back from FL when I had my tanks resealed.  I could see the VAB and all this in the distance.  Now that I've seen this, I regret I didn't swing by and do a fly over!

[MB65E]

Those F104s have Dynons installed!! So cool!

looks like a nice cockpit. Interested in the shuttle on the right side of the runway as well. 

-Matt

[N201MKTurbo]

Back in the 90s when the Air Force left Williams AFB, A friend of mine rented one of the hangars. We had almost unlimited access to everything the Air Force left behind. In the big center hangar there was an F104. It sat in there for quite a while. It was very complete, still had all the military avionics and such. Finally the owner started working on it and got it airworthy. He was doing a low pass at the Scottsdale Air Affair a year or so after that and accidentally went supersonic about 50 feet off the ground. I was there the day before but not that day. I hear the boom was spectacular!  

 

I hear the FAA just slapped his wrist and made him do 5 hours of training to learn to control his airspeed better. Considering the operating costs, that's about a $10,000 fine!

Edited August 25, 2019 by N201MKTurbo