Both WB-57Fs to go eclipse chasing!

Kinja'd!!! by "RallyWrench" (rndlitebmw)
Published 08/03/2017 at 12:38

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I love me some Canberra, I love me some space agency, I love me some eclipse. How cool is this? Tax money well spent, if you ask me.  

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Kinja'd!!! "CaptDale - is secretly British" (captdale)
08/03/2017 at 12:42, STARS: 2

FUCK that is awesome!!!!

Kinja'd!!! "ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
08/03/2017 at 12:56, STARS: 4

First flight of the B-57 was 64 years ago. Now that’s bang for your buck.

Kinja'd!!! "RallyWrench" (rndlitebmw)
08/03/2017 at 13:11, STARS: 1

Gotta love a paid-for airplane still doing important work. Love these things.

Kinja'd!!! "RallyWrench" (rndlitebmw)
08/03/2017 at 13:12, STARS: 2

Isn’t it? Happy news in a world of shit.

Kinja'd!!! "CaptDale - is secretly British" (captdale)
08/03/2017 at 13:21, STARS: 0

Yeah seriously! I really want to be in those jets

Kinja'd!!! "OPPOsaurus WRX" (opposaurus)
08/03/2017 at 14:17, STARS: 2

they should use something a little faster to stretch out the time in totality

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I hear these are fast. Maybe they should test fly one to get a ground speed check.

Kinja'd!!! "RallyWrench" (rndlitebmw)
08/03/2017 at 14:23, STARS: 0

Perhaps the RSO could flame the Canberras on the radio... they’d have to fly inverted to get the neat pictures though.

Kinja'd!!! "MarquetteLa" (marquettela)
08/03/2017 at 14:53, STARS: 1

This was done in a Concorde in 1973: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8q8qwk/the-concorde-and-the-longest-solar-eclipse