Space Shuttle Endeavour Flyover – Smiling Pilot. NASA Ames Moffett Field, California. September 21, 2012. © Copyright 2012 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
A smiling pilot is visible through the cockpit window of the space shuttle Endeavour during its flyover of the NASA Ames Moffett Field.
Just for fun… this is a 100% magnification crop of a section of one of my photographs of the flyover by space shuttle Endeavour, mounted on its 747 transport aircraft. I made the photograph on September 21, 2012 as it flew over the NASA Ames Moffett Field in the San Francisco Bay Area. While working on the original photograph I was looking closely at it when I realized that the face of the pilot (co-pilot?) is visible in the cockpit window… and I swear he is grinning! :-)
(Since I know some will ask… Canon 5D2 with Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 L IS, handheld.)
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer whose subjects include the Pacific coast, redwood forests, central California oak/grasslands, the Sierra Nevada, California deserts, urban landscapes, night photography, and more.
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It’s not the cockpit window of the shuttle but the Boeing.
Of course he is smiling, must be such an experience to fly the 747 with a shuttle on top of it ! Also he is sitting in the left hand seat so he should be the captain.
Fred:
Dang! I wondered whether the fellow might be a co-pilot or navigator or some sort of hanger-on. But still, I love the shot and love the barely visible expression on his face as he looks into the morning sun and surveys what must have been quite a sight below.
Dan