Before 9/11 and the TFR's, we used to fly down to the cape to shoot launches from the air. We'd fly down to Titusville and hang out until "T minus 9 minutes and counting." We would take off to the South and at T minutes 3 minutes and counting, we would turn North, keeping West of the Indian River (intracoastal waterway) 2500ft, and at T Zero, we would be abeam of the launch pads and get great pics of the launches. Back then, everything was shot with film. We flew a 177RG (no strut to get in the way) and we had photo windows installed in the glass, large enough to poke a 210mm lens through. Those were the days.
I still have video and pics of the John Glenn shuttle flight from a racetrack at 4000' over Titusville. Truly incredible how fast the shuttle went right through your altitude. Those were the days indeed!!
One of the shots we got. STS-47, September 1992. Fuji Velvia 100, pushed to 400, Nikon F4 35mm, Nikkor 80-200 F2.8 w/ 1.4x converter. This is about 10 miles away. The original pic look a lot better than this "pic of a pic" using my cell phone. Hopefully this link works: tinyurl.com/yc936x8r
Bartman I was an air traffic controller at Patrick approach from 86-95. If you were flying during launches during that time, it may have been me working. Those were some busy times!
I live in Orlando!!! I actually saw my house...Orlando is actually pretty close to cape canaveral! I also see the rocket launches from my balcony when I don't drive to them up close. Love this!!! and the music perfect
There's definitely a lot of training going on at KCOI. I got to do a low pass down the Shuttle Landing Strip a few years back which was really cool. Got permission to enter the area and was just told don't touch the runway. There was someone still the tower at Kennedy Space Center and they asked us to keep it too 100 feet but was still pretty cool to do.
Christmas came early! i wasn't exception an Aviation101 video til new years - Merry Christmas! Thank you for continuing to inspire the General Aviation community!
Good luck to Trevor and his endeavors to ERAU! I will definitely be picking up some merch. I'm a sophomore at the Daytona campus so if he has questions please send him my way!
Met Trevor at Oshkosh this year. It was the first time I've heard of his product. Simple concept that has done well for him.....congrats on your future endeavors.
Flying low passes at KTTS is the coolest thing I've done in an airplane. I got lucky back in November, tower was closed so no altitude restriction. Just started following the coast to coast flight, going to binge watch my afternoon away.
I remember doing this during my PPL training 18 years ago! Loved flying around Florida. Must come back and do it again someday. Thanks for the memory jogging! The autopilot kind of reminds me of the day job...
I did this exact same flight about 25 years ago as a passenger in an old 1930's Stinson radial engine aircraft; not sure if it was the Junior or Detroiter, but it had four seats and was bright yellow. We took off from Cocoa Beach Municipal airport, but great experience for sure.
Recognized most every thing in the flight from when I was stationed at Patrick AFB (Satellite Beach) back in ‘92. I was surprised at how easy it was to get clearance to over fly Kennedy.
You went to the wrong airport in Orlando. MCO is more fun to land a 172. It is so much fun to land behind some of the big boys! I came in from the south east and had to fly over the landing 737 and others to land past the point all of the big ones. I have done that twice, picking up or drop off people! Love the information! THANK YOU!
Great video Josh. I am looking forward to watching your trip to the West Coast! Hope you have a great time and thanks for taking us along on your adventure!
Very cool NASA runway overflight. Looking forward to the sortie videos to the west coast. My first commercial flight at 19 years old took me to San Diego’s Lindbergh Field for USN Boot Camp, 25-SEP-67 approximately 17:00 Zulu.
Josh! What great memories watching your video. I learned to fly at Patrick AFB and used Merritt Island airport many times. I also took as many people as I could on the “cape tour” at NASA. If nothing was going on, they would let me land and hang out for a while (being an air traffic controller has its perks). Thanks again for the memories!
I have been flying out of Executive since 1990 but never had such crystal clear views,and never got such great night vids. Great job. Playalinda Beach can offer great views as well.
This is awesome Josh! I have followed your VLOG since the beginning. I grew up in Merritt Island and live in Orlando, I know all three of these airports very well (Orlando Exec, NASA shuttle landing facility and Merritt Island-COI). I just became a flight instructor last month. To see this video and you visiting my home area.... Wow, just awesome, gives me goose bumps! Can't wait to follow the coast to coast!
Skydive Spaceland...my home DZ is located in Rosharon Texas. Several years back had a C172 fly right over the top of our DZ while I and several others where in free fall. Saw the aircraft and everyone started tracking away from it and I pitched the pilot chute at 4900' and was in the saddle at about 4200' with the plane roughly 1/8 mile away at the same altitude. Could have ended very badly for us and the pilot. Coast to Coast!!! now that will be an adventure. Start Safe, Stay Safe
Cool trip down Canaveral runway. I did my training down in Sanford, and we went up to shoot the shuttle approach on occasion. Think the thing that blew me away the most was how long it took to fly the length of that giant runway!
I work out at NASA KSC. Very cool to see this from the air. Big fan! Got my PPL last year, but haven't had time to do the shuttle landing approach yet....
I'm not back in the sky yet - finishing my EE degree first - but will be soon! Thanks for sharing your adventures and reminded us all of what is possible!
Especially good video because I've lived in Orlando for years. I did the water thing New Smyrna Beach, Florida to Laguna Beach, California on back to back days a while back by airline. Sounds a little silly but it was actually pretty cool. Also, had a buddy who worked at the Cape years ago, gave me tour of the VAB and runway. It was awesome, definitely come back and check it out. I'm at Orlando Executive often though I fly out of Leesburg. Your friends seem like really good people. Thanks for sharing the adventure !
I just got back from Houston, TX. My fiance and I went to the Houston Space Museum. I had to honor of being inside the building where NASA stores the last existing Saturn V rocket. The atmosphere inside of this building was could not be articulated. If you haven't already, I highly suggest visiting Houston Space Museum.
Space Center Houston is the visitor center and the facility is still NASA's Johnson Space Center and home to mission control. It is not a museum, at least not yet.
@@andrewarmstrong7310 While we were there, the first part you come up too is set up like a museum. They even have the old modified 747 that gave the shuttles rides back and forth. It still is an active facility, yes, especially where the Saturn V is. But the very first part of it is like a museum
@@amastri1 Apollo 17 flew on December 7, 1972, with Commander Eugene Cernan, Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans, and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt. Apollo 18 was cut and reused as Skylab, Apollo 19 and 20 were cut and never used. The Saturn V rocket on display in Houston is one out of three and the only one made up of entirely flight certified hardware.
Great advanture! Would love to see some discussion of the planning involved, especially altitude and crossing the mountains. Looking forward to seeing more of it.
Great video of the low flight over the Space Shuttle runway. Neat seeing all the lights at night and the night takeoff and landing. Have a Merry Christmas Josh and and Happy New Year.
This was great! I flew this very approach last April renting a plane from Titusville Spaceport Aviation. I came from Toronto to visit my cousin and introduce her to aviation at sun n Fun. On our way to Kennedy Space center , I got her to stop for a very special surprise first flight! We even checked out the alligators! It was extra special because she's such a huge Space fan. SpaceX landing barge was clearly visible as was the Antonov An224. Oh yeah... And we got to see a launch the next day!
How COOL.. I bought my wife a coffee mug of our home airport that they made for Christmas this year from Sportys.. It had the neat story on a paper inside the mug of how he started the business to fund his training.
When you dump the contents of the ocean water and sand, I recommend Dockweiler state beach in LA.... LAX is right there and the planes take off over the beach... that is if your going to LA... safe travels...
How cool! Josh I met you at Sun n Fun in 2015 when you were there and I have one of Teavor’s ties for South Jersey Airport in Mount Holly, NJ. Come up and visit some time to the great north east!
Great video Josh!!!! It was all CFI on the first take off and your eyes were so scanning the panel! Hope to see more videos of the trip!!!! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and your family!!!
When you make it out west got to go to the airport on Catalina island and try to see Edwards afb to there is space shuttle history there to was cool to see it land when I was stationed there just before it lands it made a double sonic boom
When you come to Sedona you will enjoy landing at the airport there. Up on a plateau. If you go to the Grand Canyon, take a side trip north of the canyon to Parker. From there you can go to slot canyon. It gets you close to the beauty of the canyon with a totally different experience. Come to San Diego and fly to Catalina Island. Land at the "Airport in the Sky", have a buffalo burger. Deposit your sand and water at the bay.
Josh, I work at Merritt Island airport for the flight school. Next time you come by say hi. I’m a fan and would love to meet you. Maybe do some special east coast flying and buzz the beaches.
So cool! I have always wanted to do a flyby down the shuttle runway. Enjoyed the video!
steveo1kinevo thanks buddy! I love flying around Florida. I need to come out there more often!
you guys should do a meet up! Josh flying the TBM and Steve flying the C172!
Great video Josh.
steveo1kinevo Now I know where you got those socks 🤣
Before 9/11 and the TFR's, we used to fly down to the cape to shoot launches from the air. We'd fly down to Titusville and hang out until "T minus 9 minutes and counting." We would take off to the South and at T minutes 3 minutes and counting, we would turn North, keeping West of the Indian River (intracoastal waterway) 2500ft, and at T Zero, we would be abeam of the launch pads and get great pics of the launches. Back then, everything was shot with film. We flew a 177RG (no strut to get in the way) and we had photo windows installed in the glass, large enough to poke a 210mm lens through. Those were the days.
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I still have video and pics of the John Glenn shuttle flight from a racetrack at 4000' over Titusville. Truly incredible how fast the shuttle went right through your altitude. Those were the days indeed!!
One of the shots we got. STS-47, September 1992. Fuji Velvia 100, pushed to 400, Nikon F4 35mm, Nikkor 80-200 F2.8 w/ 1.4x converter. This is about 10 miles away. The original pic look a lot better than this "pic of a pic" using my cell phone. Hopefully this link works: tinyurl.com/yc936x8r
Bartman Incredible shot man, cant imagine what it would have been to see this in person! Thanks for sharing!
Bartman I was an air traffic controller at Patrick approach from 86-95. If you were flying during launches during that time, it may have been me working. Those were some busy times!
That's a well equipped 172!
Jeremy Zawodny yeah it is.
Has a 430. And a autopilot with a digital attitude indicator. A plane that would do well for IFR flying
Born in Melbourne. Father retired from KSC. Love the area. Nice video
My boy is all grown up... Brings a tear to my eye! Lol good video lads
YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN THERE, LEW.
sharp25033 ah Sharpie there was no room! I could have sat on the wing but I’d have to look at the POH to see if that’s allowed haha
LewDix and aviation101 in one video would be amazing. my 2 fav aviation channels haha
Spectacular views of the volcanoes and coast..Thank you
I live in Orlando!!! I actually saw my house...Orlando is actually pretty close to cape canaveral! I also see the rocket launches from my balcony when I don't drive to them up close. Love this!!! and the music perfect
There's definitely a lot of training going on at KCOI. I got to do a low pass down the Shuttle Landing Strip a few years back which was really cool. Got permission to enter the area and was just told don't touch the runway. There was someone still the tower at Kennedy Space Center and they asked us to keep it too 100 feet but was still pretty cool to do.
Love those shots of Orlando. Sure beats driving on I-4 downtown in all that glorious traffic.
Christmas came early! i wasn't exception an Aviation101 video til new years - Merry Christmas! Thank you for continuing to inspire the General Aviation community!
Good luck to Trevor and his endeavors to ERAU! I will definitely be picking up some merch. I'm a sophomore at the Daytona campus so if he has questions please send him my way!
Impressed with your ideas, Josh Flowers. A pleasure watching your growth as an aviator-filmmaker.
Just discovered your videos some days ago … awesome flight over Canaveral and so much history . We’ll done best regards from 🇫🇷
Met Trevor at Oshkosh this year. It was the first time I've heard of his product. Simple concept that has done well for him.....congrats on your future endeavors.
Flying low passes at KTTS is the coolest thing I've done in an airplane. I got lucky back in November, tower was closed so no altitude restriction. Just started following the coast to coast flight, going to binge watch my afternoon away.
I remember doing this during my PPL training 18 years ago! Loved flying around Florida. Must come back and do it again someday. Thanks for the memory jogging! The autopilot kind of reminds me of the day job...
I did this exact same flight about 25 years ago as a passenger in an old 1930's Stinson radial engine aircraft; not sure if it was the Junior or Detroiter, but it had four seats and was bright yellow. We took off from Cocoa Beach Municipal airport, but great experience for sure.
Love it. My backyard beach. KSC is an amazing place to visit. Thanks Josh.
Looking forward to the rest of the series.
Ksc you say? Hmmm #kerbalspaceprogram
Good video dear
KORL, Rwy 7, a nice 172, good people, and great video work - Perfect. Another great video!
Recognized most every thing in the flight from when I was stationed at Patrick AFB (Satellite Beach) back in ‘92. I was surprised at how easy it was to get clearance to over fly Kennedy.
Did a lot of flying in/out of KCOI while doing my IFR from PAFB. Nice night shot of the city beautiful. Thanks
You went to the wrong airport in Orlando. MCO is more fun to land a 172. It is so much fun to land behind some of the big boys! I came in from the south east and had to fly over the landing 737 and others to land past the point all of the big ones. I have done that twice, picking up or drop off people! Love the information! THANK YOU!
Forget Netflix. I am watchng this channel 2 hrs everyday.
Nice flight boys
Great video Josh. I am looking forward to watching your trip to the West Coast! Hope you have a great time and thanks for taking us along on your adventure!
Just starting this but you ought to do this now on a motorcycle!! No hotels - camping only..
Another enjoyable viewing - look forward to the planned coast-to-coast adventure series.
What a great way to see the country, with a transcon flight. Can't wait to see the rest of your journey! Fly safe!!
Very cool NASA runway overflight. Looking forward to the sortie videos to the west coast. My first commercial flight at 19 years old took me to San Diego’s Lindbergh Field for USN Boot Camp, 25-SEP-67 approximately 17:00 Zulu.
Such a chill video ! Good Job Josh
Josh! What great memories watching your video. I learned to fly at Patrick AFB and used Merritt Island airport many times. I also took as many people as I could on the “cape tour” at NASA. If nothing was going on, they would let me land and hang out for a while (being an air traffic controller has its perks). Thanks again for the memories!
I almost guarantee that everyone in the Riddle aircraft recognized you! 9:37 Thanks for sharing.
Really looking forward to following along on this adventure.
Flew past Kennedy today as the rocket was launching, I am always amazed everytime flying past! Nice video!
I have been flying out of Executive since 1990 but never had such crystal clear views,and never got such great night vids. Great job. Playalinda Beach can offer great views as well.
I'm living vicariously through this channel as I grind away at ground school.
Hey Merritt Island! That's where I started my training! Ya'll are right, it IS a madhouse though XD
What a great afternoon of flying!
Awesome flight. We did this flight as well. But we were cleared to 200ft over the runway.
I've known Arnaldo since 2000 or so, great guy. Looking forward to the rest of your joint adventure.
First time I ever went to Florida, was to Coco Beach. Love it there. But, I’m sure it was much less congested back in the early 80s. Great video !
This is awesome Josh! I have followed your VLOG since the beginning. I grew up in Merritt Island and live in Orlando, I know all three of these airports very well (Orlando Exec, NASA shuttle landing facility and Merritt Island-COI). I just became a flight instructor last month. To see this video and you visiting my home area.... Wow, just awesome, gives me goose bumps! Can't wait to follow the coast to coast!
Thank you for doing this from my home town. I am currently planning a VFR from Bartow and am learning a lot from this set of videos.
Skydive Spaceland...my home DZ is located in Rosharon Texas. Several years back had a C172 fly right over the top of our DZ while I and several others where in free fall. Saw the aircraft and everyone started tracking away from it and I pitched the pilot chute at 4900' and was in the saddle at about 4200' with the plane roughly 1/8 mile away at the same altitude. Could have ended very badly for us and the pilot. Coast to Coast!!! now that will be an adventure. Start Safe, Stay Safe
What a great video....love the music throughout....
The start of a great adventure, looking fwd to riding along :) Merry Christmas to you and yours and followers et al.
Cool trip down Canaveral runway. I did my training down in Sanford, and we went up to shoot the shuttle approach on occasion. Think the thing that blew me away the most was how long it took to fly the length of that giant runway!
I work out at NASA KSC. Very cool to see this from the air. Big fan! Got my PPL last year, but haven't had time to do the shuttle landing approach yet....
I'm not back in the sky yet - finishing my EE degree first - but will be soon! Thanks for sharing your adventures and reminded us all of what is possible!
You were right by me!! Can't wait for the rest of the videos! Fly safe!
Great video Josh!
Trained by the one and only lewdix aviation!
Legend
I just went to Kennedy Space Center and the fact that you got to land at the shuttle landing facility is amazing!
Well there is something to add to my Florida bucket list...well done....!
Especially good video because I've lived in Orlando for years. I did the water thing New Smyrna Beach, Florida to Laguna Beach, California on back to back days a while back by airline. Sounds a little silly but it was actually pretty cool. Also, had a buddy who worked at the Cape years ago, gave me tour of the VAB and runway. It was awesome, definitely come back and check it out. I'm at Orlando Executive often though I fly out of Leesburg. Your friends seem like really good people. Thanks for sharing the adventure !
This is so amazing! Thank you for your videos.
I just got back from Houston, TX. My fiance and I went to the Houston Space Museum. I had to honor of being inside the building where NASA stores the last existing Saturn V rocket. The atmosphere inside of this building was could not be articulated. If you haven't already, I highly suggest visiting Houston Space Museum.
Space Center Houston is the visitor center and the facility is still NASA's Johnson Space Center and home to mission control. It is not a museum, at least not yet.
@@andrewarmstrong7310 While we were there, the first part you come up too is set up like a museum. They even have the old modified 747 that gave the shuttles rides back and forth. It still is an active facility, yes, especially where the Saturn V is. But the very first part of it is like a museum
There is a Saturn V at the Kennedy space center from apollo 17 that never flew because of budget cuts
@@amastri1 Apollo 17 flew on December 7, 1972, with Commander Eugene Cernan, Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans, and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt. Apollo 18 was cut and reused as Skylab, Apollo 19 and 20 were cut and never used. The Saturn V rocket on display in Houston is one out of three and the only one made up of entirely flight certified hardware.
@@thebearded_guardian3671 Mesuem makes me cringe. I prefer to call it an exhibit.
You’re a frickin’ genius!!
We live in Cocoa, 5 miles from the Cape.....go to Merritt Island all the time for shopping. Aircraft always in the pattern there! Nice video!
Looking forward to the trip. Safe travels and Merry Christmas!
Great advanture! Would love to see some discussion of the planning involved, especially altitude and crossing the mountains. Looking forward to seeing more of it.
Great video of the low flight over the Space Shuttle runway. Neat seeing all the lights at night and the night takeoff and landing. Have a Merry Christmas Josh and and Happy New Year.
Recognized Arnaldo from LewDix Aviation. It's a small world of aviation out there; happy flying!
Arnaldo! Dude! 20 seconds in and Im thinking hey!! Thats Lewdix's boy Arnaldo. Good to see you again man. (resumes video)
I waited for him to say "welcome to the sky"...
@@brianpreblich5123 That would have been funny!
Beautiful video.
Did you notice what was on Trevor’s t-shirt? Very cool!
Another great video. Looking forward to Coast to Coast. Bring it on!
How awesome are you guys!! Merry Christmas Josh, hope it's a great time for you. I'll be watching the new adventure!
This is going to be epic! Thanks, Mr. Flowers.
This was great! I flew this very approach last April renting a plane from Titusville Spaceport Aviation. I came from Toronto to visit my cousin and introduce her to aviation at sun n Fun. On our way to Kennedy Space center , I got her to stop for a very special surprise first flight! We even checked out the alligators! It was extra special because she's such a huge Space fan. SpaceX landing barge was clearly visible as was the Antonov An224. Oh yeah... And we got to see a launch the next day!
really like your editing and music... always love watching your night flights
Love the song playing at the end
Love the song at the end
Great video, Josh as usual.
Very cool. Got chartitall stuff ordered! Too cool.
How COOL.. I bought my wife a coffee mug of our home airport that they made for Christmas this year from Sportys.. It had the neat story on a paper inside the mug of how he started the business to fund his training.
I was born at Cape Canaveral. Very cool!
When you dump the contents of the ocean water and sand, I recommend Dockweiler state beach in LA.... LAX is right there and the planes take off over the beach... that is if your going to LA... safe travels...
Well done sir. Looking forward to your other videos
How cool! Josh I met you at Sun n Fun in 2015 when you were there and I have one of Teavor’s ties for South Jersey Airport in Mount Holly, NJ. Come up and visit some time to the great north east!
Man that was awesome
Very nice.
Great video Josh!!!! It was all CFI on the first take off and your eyes were so scanning the panel! Hope to see more videos of the trip!!!! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and your family!!!
So close to me. I’m at Sanford now.
Always good videos Josh. And love finishing up the video with the Mooney in the background!!!!:)
Your friends sectional shirt is amazing.
Thanks for the video, Very nice camera work.
wow, I'm impressed by that quality!
Great video, thanks for sharing
When you make it out west got to go to the airport on Catalina island and try to see Edwards afb to there is space shuttle history there to was cool to see it land when I was stationed there just before it lands it made a double sonic boom
That is so awesome! Used to spend holidays in Cocoa Beach a lot when I was little ;-)
Great video!
When you come to Sedona you will enjoy landing at the airport there. Up on a plateau. If you go to the Grand Canyon, take a side trip north of the canyon to Parker. From there you can go to slot canyon. It gets you close to the beauty of the canyon with a totally different experience. Come to San Diego and fly to Catalina Island. Land at the "Airport in the Sky", have a buffalo burger. Deposit your sand and water at the bay.
Another great video Josh. Have a great Christmas and a great New Year. Look forward to seeing much more in 2019.
Great video!!! Can't wait to see the rest of the videos for this trip
looking forwards to this epic journey
What a great idea... I need to try this next time I am down to FL. BTW, great avionics setup in your 172!
Josh, I work at Merritt Island airport for the flight school. Next time you come by say hi. I’m a fan and would love to meet you. Maybe do some special east coast flying and buzz the beaches.
Great video!!! Can you share the airports you are planning to stop at on the way over and back?
It’s KORL love flying there and doing close traffic
Merry Christmas from Longview, TX.