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Mar 11^th, 2011 at 3:59pm

Strawberry Yogurt Offline
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Decided to do this because Discovery made her last voyage on Wednesday... Although the shuttle here is Atlantis! Grin

Anyway, I love the space program we have and I'm upset we're dumping it - although newer, more efficient ways have been developed, the shuttle is extremely neat and fun to watch. Here's my edit, I hope you like it.

I went outside once. The graphics weren't all that great.

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Reply #1 - Mar 11^th, 2011 at 9:29pm

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I was alive when the first astronauts blasted off...now that's sad Grin

Cool screenie! Cool

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Reply #2 - Mar 12^th, 2011 at 12:00pm

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Cool shot.

If God intended aircraft engines to have horizontally opposed engines, Pratt and Whitney would have made them that way.

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Reply #3 - Mar 12^th, 2011 at 12:57pm

Strawberry Yogurt Offline
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Thanks, both of you! I have a more edited version of the shot that looks 400 times better but it's like 8 MB... I would have to compress it A LOT! Grin

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Reply #4 - Mar 12^th, 2011 at 3:11pm

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Strawberry Yogurt wrote on Mar 12^th, 2011 at 12:57pm:

Thanks, both of you! I have a more edited version of the shot that looks 400 times better but it's like 8 MB... I would have to compress it A LOT! Grin

Upload it to ImageShack and just post the link.

If God intended aircraft engines to have horizontally opposed engines, Pratt and Whitney would have made them that way.

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Reply #5 - Mar 12^th, 2011 at 6:23pm

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Sounds good, I'll make a new thread later!

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Reply #6 - Mar 12^th, 2011 at 7:01pm

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Strawberry Yogurt wrote on Mar 12^th, 2011 at 6:23pm:

Sounds good, I'll make a new thread later!

You don't need a new thread, you can post the link here. It won't have any effect on the weight already here. You can post any number of shots as images as long as they are 1024 wide or less,
155kb max each, with a total of 650kb. Then you add links for others uploaded the same way but without the image tags.
For example purposes, I will use () instead of [].
(img)http://www.simviation.com/phpupload/uploads/1299893843.jpg(/img) which is your picture above. Then you would add the link by editing your first post or adding a new reply and put
http://www.simviation.com/phpupload/uploads/123456.jpg

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Reply #7 - Mar 12^th, 2011 at 7:48pm

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Alright, let me sign up to imageshack and I'll have the screenie on later. Thanks for the information, that stuff is valuable!

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Reply #8 - Mar 12^th, 2011 at 8:58pm

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I remember way, way back in November of 1981 when the first one touched down after its first trip up. What a wonderful day for America. Just imagine how much we have learned from all these flights, both in terms of new technology and new knowledge. Amazing...

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Reply #9 - Mar 12^th, 2011 at 10:57pm

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Okay, here we are... I gave patchz another one, for helping me out, and making me groan. Grin

http://img858.imageshack.us/i/cominghome2.jpg/

http://img856.imageshack.us/i/201131122338519.png/

Cheesy

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Reply #10 - Mar 14^th, 2011 at 9:06am

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Pretty cool stuff you got going on there strawberry!

FSX, we've come a long way baby! Skunk Works is an official alias for Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Development Programs (ADP), formerly called Lockheed Advanced Development Projects. Skunk Works is responsible for a number of famous aircraft designs, including the U-2, the SR-71 Blackbird, the F-117 Nighthawk, and the F-22 Raptor. Its largest current project is the F-35 Lightning II

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Reply #11 - Mar 14^th, 2011 at 1:21pm

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Very nice, both of them.

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Reply #12 - Mar 14^th, 2011 at 3:18pm

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Thanks, guys, glad you liked them. I personally like edits because they enhance the photo and make them look TONS better. Wink

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Reply #13 - Mar 20^th, 2011 at 11:31am

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Magnificent work Wink

That's incredible

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