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<blockquote data-quote="gtkisaru" data-source="post: 10185581" data-attributes="member: 68721"><p><span style="font-size: 15px">මැයි 16 වෙනිදා</span><span style="font-size: 15px"> එන්ඩේවර් Rocket යානය ගුවන් ගත කරනකොට. ඒ අසලින් ගිය ගුවන් යානයක සිටි "ලෝරි බර්ඩ්"(</span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/lorriebird" target="_blank">Lorrie 'Bird' LeBlanc</a> )<span style="font-size: 15px"> කියලා කාන්තාවක් අහම්බයෙන් මේක දැකලා එයා පින්තූර අරන් තියනවා.. බලන්න කොච්චර ලස්සනද කියලා...</span><img src="http://www.elakiri.com/forum/images/icons/sq/3.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">කොච්චර යානා අභයවකාශයට ගියත් මේ වගෙ පින්තූර ලෝකයාට දැක ගන්න ලැබිච්ච පලවෙනි වතාවලු...</span> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><em>Add +reps if you like my post...</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><em></em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><em>free to share with your friends...</em></span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://blog.geocaching.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Shuttle-16.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://blog.geocaching.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Shuttle-16.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>Courtesy: Lorriebird</p><p></p><p style="text-align: left">You never know where you’ll find a geocacher. Avid geocacher Lorrie LeBlanc (<a href="http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?guid=65c481da-089a-499f-adcf-cb7042f786c0" target="_blank">Lorriebird</a>) was piloting an airliner over Florida just as the space shuttle Endeavour launched through the clouds this week. She snapped these pictures. Her pictures went viral, even posting on <a href="http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-608206" target="_blank">CNN.com</a>. Here’s her story.</p><p><a href="http://blog.geocaching.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Shuttle-17.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://blog.geocaching.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Shuttle-17-1024x765.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p></p><p> Lorriebird writes, “I was flying a route from Miami to Montreal on Monday, May 16th. I hadn’t paid much attention to the shuttle launch because I knew I would be working at the time and would miss it. We were cruising at 37,000 feet, and the chatter began on the Jacksonville radio frequency about the launch. Other aircraft started asking for permission to turn toward the launch, but they were denied.</p><p style="text-align: left">“Then we received a message that the Endeavour was launching in one minute. I started looking at our position relative to the launch site and realized that we were VERY close at only about 40 nautical miles away. I told the Captain that I was flying with that we were the closest plane to this thing! I started looking for it and at that very moment the Endeavour punched up through the clouds in perfect position outside my window! The frequency erupted with questions….JAX center and other planes started asking us what we could see…but I was too busy taking photos to answer them! I mean, if I could have snapped my fingers to re-position our aircraft anywhere else, I wouldn’t have moved it! We absolutely lucked out and were in the right place at the perfect time.</p><p><a href="http://blog.geocaching.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Shuttle-15.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://blog.geocaching.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Shuttle-15-765x1024.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>Courtesy: Lorriebird</p><p></p><p> “I cannot write what I was saying out loud at the time. But all the while I was shooting, I just kept thinking that we were watching history being made. I really cannot describe the feeling properly, because words like amazing and incredible truly don’t cut it for trying to describe that thrill. It took quite a while for the adrenaline rush to cut me some slack! The other pilot and I just looked at one another….did we REALLY just see that????”</p><p> Check out even more of her photos <a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2123299924765.130827.1313868558&l=391dcb9a79" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p> <a href="http://blog.geocaching.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Shuttle-141.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://blog.geocaching.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Shuttle-141-765x1024.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p>Courtesy: Lorriebird</p><p></p><p><em>Add+s if you like my post</em> .</p><p></p><p><em>free to share this with your friends.</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gtkisaru, post: 10185581, member: 68721"] [SIZE=4]මැයි 16 වෙනිදා[/SIZE][SIZE=4] එන්ඩේවර් Rocket යානය ගුවන් ගත කරනකොට. ඒ අසලින් ගිය ගුවන් යානයක සිටි "ලෝරි බර්ඩ්"([/SIZE][URL="http://www.facebook.com/lorriebird"]Lorrie 'Bird' LeBlanc[/URL] )[SIZE=4] කියලා කාන්තාවක් අහම්බයෙන් මේක දැකලා එයා පින්තූර අරන් තියනවා.. බලන්න කොච්චර ලස්සනද කියලා...[/SIZE][IMG]http://www.elakiri.com/forum/images/icons/sq/3.gif[/IMG] [SIZE=4] කොච්චර යානා අභයවකාශයට ගියත් මේ වගෙ පින්තූර ලෝකයාට දැක ගන්න ලැබිච්ච පලවෙනි වතාවලු...[/SIZE] [SIZE=3][I]Add +reps if you like my post... free to share with your friends...[/I][/SIZE] [URL="http://blog.geocaching.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Shuttle-16.jpg"][IMG]http://blog.geocaching.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Shuttle-16.jpg[/IMG][/URL]Courtesy: Lorriebird [LEFT]You never know where you’ll find a geocacher. Avid geocacher Lorrie LeBlanc ([URL="http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?guid=65c481da-089a-499f-adcf-cb7042f786c0"]Lorriebird[/URL]) was piloting an airliner over Florida just as the space shuttle Endeavour launched through the clouds this week. She snapped these pictures. Her pictures went viral, even posting on [URL="http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-608206"]CNN.com[/URL]. Here’s her story.[/LEFT] [URL="http://blog.geocaching.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Shuttle-17.jpg"][IMG]http://blog.geocaching.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Shuttle-17-1024x765.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Lorriebird writes, “I was flying a route from Miami to Montreal on Monday, May 16th. I hadn’t paid much attention to the shuttle launch because I knew I would be working at the time and would miss it. We were cruising at 37,000 feet, and the chatter began on the Jacksonville radio frequency about the launch. Other aircraft started asking for permission to turn toward the launch, but they were denied. [LEFT]“Then we received a message that the Endeavour was launching in one minute. I started looking at our position relative to the launch site and realized that we were VERY close at only about 40 nautical miles away. I told the Captain that I was flying with that we were the closest plane to this thing! I started looking for it and at that very moment the Endeavour punched up through the clouds in perfect position outside my window! The frequency erupted with questions….JAX center and other planes started asking us what we could see…but I was too busy taking photos to answer them! I mean, if I could have snapped my fingers to re-position our aircraft anywhere else, I wouldn’t have moved it! We absolutely lucked out and were in the right place at the perfect time.[/LEFT] [URL="http://blog.geocaching.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Shuttle-15.jpg"][IMG]http://blog.geocaching.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Shuttle-15-765x1024.jpg[/IMG][/URL]Courtesy: Lorriebird “I cannot write what I was saying out loud at the time. But all the while I was shooting, I just kept thinking that we were watching history being made. I really cannot describe the feeling properly, because words like amazing and incredible truly don’t cut it for trying to describe that thrill. It took quite a while for the adrenaline rush to cut me some slack! The other pilot and I just looked at one another….did we REALLY just see that????” Check out even more of her photos [URL="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2123299924765.130827.1313868558&l=391dcb9a79"]here[/URL]. [URL="http://blog.geocaching.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Shuttle-141.jpg"][IMG]http://blog.geocaching.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Shuttle-141-765x1024.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Courtesy: Lorriebird [I]Add+s if you like my post[/I] . [I]free to share this with your friends.[/I] [/QUOTE]
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