LANDING on the SPACE SHUTTLE RUNWAY - Cessna 150
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- I landed the Cessna 150 Aerobat on the Space Shuttle runway! This can only be done with special permission from NASA and is a very rare occaison.
It was an amazing experience and a huge bucket list flight. I'm glad I could record it and share with you all.
Thanks for watching and please LIKE and SUBSCRIBE! :)
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“NASA tower, Cessna nine-zero PAPA PAPA”
Thank you all for watching! :)
*pApA*
FloridaFlying can u pls tell me the song name
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Bet you never thought you'd be calling NASA for approach and departure clearance. Great video and the camera positions were spot on!
It did feel pretty cool to say NASA tower...I’m glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for the comment :)
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Imagine working in the NASA Tower and doing nothing most of the days
Philipp Meyer actually the tower guys keep pretty busy. They have on average 400 aircraft operations a month, not to mention all the other testing activity taking place on/ near the runway that most people don’t know about.
Spacex 282 PapaPapa cleared for take off and clear skies to 1400000 ft
Bring your boss coffee
Philipp Meyer and imagine they get payed for it too xD
LT05- OFSWEDEN
As someone said before: great for retirement but horrible for training
The longest landing flare you will ever perform!!! Next time ask them if you can see how many takeoffs and landings you can perform on the 15,000 ft runway!! Start fly stop, start fly stop!
Haha I really should have tried to do as many touch n go’s as possible. The runway went on forever!
FloridaFlying my longest one was in Utapo Thailand. 13,000ft in my P-3 Super B Aircraft. It was designed for the B-52’s and launched the bombing missions for the Vietnam war. We performed a takeoff and landing and had about 2,000 feet left!! I don’t remember the width but it was wide too.. 1983!! Oh Thailand!!
God I miss Thailand. I had so so much fun there.
Jonathan Day - We we’re deployed deployed to Cubi Point in the Philippines for 6 months when I was attached to VP-4 Skinny Dragons. We spent 3 days in Thailand and we landed in Otapo but we actually stayed in Pattya Beach. I hope I’m spelling it correctly. What a great time in 1982. Oh to be young again and in Thailand with all that fun!!! Ohhhhhh!
next video: landing in area 51
SYT3 lol, 51 likes
With special permission from the us army
AbortedFetus correction U.S. Air Force
he's dead with this😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
VA Railfan “department of energy”
That runway is 15,000ft long
That’s half the height of the cruising altitude of jets
When you’re cruising at fl300 and look out the window and see just how far down the land is, half that is the length of that runway
And the shuttle travelled the whole length of that runway in 0.6 of a second while in space
You must be joking right? 0.6 fking seconds??? Maybe 6 seconds????
@@ramnepali6018 in space 0.6 is right when landing it was much slower but it was always fast because of it relative small wings compared to its mass. But in orbit yes it had around 8 km/s which is around 26246.7 ft/s which means yes in 0.6 is right.
@@technikchaot lmao i know im an aerospace major but the dude said it covered the runway in 0.6 seconds
@@ramnepali6018 the actually landing was slightly above 300 ft/s which means at this speed it would need 50 seconds of course it stopped at the end of the runway so it was on average much slower. And I'm not in the aerospace business and my english is far away from good so it can be that I misinterpreted something.
Ok a few clarifications, I meant 0.6 seconds at its orbital velocity
15,000ft is a big runway, most runways as you said are 9,000-12,000ft but rarely ever go much further above that.
Yes the longest is 18,000ft but this is still one of the longest in the world and is in the top 5 maybe 3 I can’t remember too well
Having just visited KSC last month for the first time, I got completely jealous watching you float above that massive runaway, work the assembly building in the background. Thanks for sharing your experience.
What an honor that must have been. This approach is definitely on the bucket list. Been a Cape Canaveral resident for 20yrs and cant tell you how many times I just wanted to request clearance there just because. Cool little Bat your club has. I took upset training in one through Dagmar Kress at KFXE back in '98. The original Aerobats are getting rare. Great Video...subscribed.
Damn - not too many people outside of the elite of the military and astronaut corps have landed on that runway. Tremendous opportunity!
Space Coast Airport, Titusville... I did my helicopter flight training there back in 2011. best time ever, I miss it. (I am from Germany...).
Thanks for this video.
Looks like you got a straight answer from NASA lol. Thanks for the great video!
They were super friendly! Glad you enjoyed the video :)
Outstanding and fun video . . . and it was great to come across another UCF alum!
Take care . . . John (79)
florida man lands in NASA’s private landing port without permission.
d a t g i o LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
( *with rocket he built himself* )
You cam ALWAYS do it ONCE...😄
Hi! Glad you didn't over shoot :-) BTW Love those Starship T-shirts I bought for me and my family.
Haha, you know while I was at NASA they said an F-104 actually overshot the runway if you can believe that. Did you receive the shirts yet? Let me know if you are satisfied with the quality
@@FloridaFlying Yep! They are here in Sweden and also been washed with good result.
Overshoot with F-104.... or any aircraft How is that possible? The F-104 is of one the aircraft that they said about it: "No visible means of support"
Rudolf Abelin Bor du i Sverige? 🇸🇪
@@kenoii4449 Jajamensan!
Rudolf Abelin Gött:)
A real Florida Man.
I’ve been trying to give Florida men a good reputation
@@FloridaFlying >>> Hey, we ALREADY have one!
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this is dadda dadda papi coming in at angle 69 lowering to 420 feet
Thats pretty awesome. A bucketlist item for me. I have done a whole bunch of low passes there but always "the wheels can not touch the ground"
Nice experience and great fun! Thanks.
i wouldve laughed if he said backtrack runway 33 turn around 15 let us know when your ready
There was a slight tailwind and I said to my brother “there’s no way they’re going to make us back taxi...right?” Haha
Such nice memories on the days I did my PPL in 150 and 152 planes here in South Africa. Must be an experience to land on that enormous runway. Need at least a 150 to get from one end to the other.
I punched the air for you at 9:47 - Excellent !
At 11:22, in the upper part of the screen, you can see the rail line that was once used to bring in the solid rocket booster segments. It's an extremely narrow rail that goes across the river.
So cool. I had forgotten they use to bring them by train
What a cool experience for you guys!
All I hear is bla bla bla bla pappa pappa bla bla bla bla pappa pappa. 😂😂
Thanks for the virtual experience
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A friend of mine got his father's large Cadillac and we drove down the shuttle landing strip soon after it was finished. This was before the shuttles started landing on it.They had had an open house that day. Sometimes gators would get on the strip.
That F-104 is SWEET!
Brought me back to the good old days flying in FL. Used to be cleared for low approach only by NASA
Nice video! I love it.
Controller sounds so nice! 😃
Heck a C150 could almost land across that runway and never touch the grass! 😂. Cool flight and thanks for sharing.
That left drift tho:) BUT that lannnnnnnnnddddiiinggggg tho!
That was really great to watch really interesting..
SUPER COOL
hi PP from FPR what was the special occasion ? awesome video thanks let me know if u come to fpr thanks
I've done several "cape tours" low approaches. Always felt strange looking up at the top of the VAB.
2:21 wtf was that
10:53
Idk 😂
uWu
and idk
Hahahahahahahaha
That was funny
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This is good stuff! Thanks for posting it.
I’m glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for the comment
The amount of times i heard papa
You're two lucky guys, landing there is a dream of mine.
Fun fact: That "aggressive" pull up on take off, here in Brazil is called American Takeoff (Decolagem Americana)... no idea why...
Do you actually have to say that youre lined up and waiting? I thought the tower would just say cleared for takeoff when the runway is clear
You might be right. Although I couldn’t see the tower so I thought I’d give them a heads up
it's mostly a formality to keep the pilots used to hearing atc comms
The ground cleared him to line up and wait, so the report from the pilot is kinda expected. Obviously the tower wouldn't let him waiting all day if he didn't reported he was lined up and waiting...
Do pilots always have to have a co pilot? Can you fly solo?
Yes I think all single engine airplanes only need 1 pilot. I just brought my brother for fun
Yes one of the first things pilots learn to do before getting their private pilots license is learn to fly solo, I'm working up to my first solo flight soon
It really depends, but private planes never need 2 pilots, I always fly a Cessna solo
Jets and airplanes weighing over 12,500 lbs gross weight require two pilots. Single engine planes like this can be flown solo.
@Agent J never heard of that. Certainly airliners will never be flown single pilot. Even most single pilot rated business jets are typically flown with two pilots for insurance reasons.
Cool! This was a fun video to watch
Watching the start of this video, and hoping to see you configure the aircraft for final approach like the shuttle would be in -- high altitude, no (idle) power, and full flaps on short final 😊
Nice!
Brilliant video
Thank you!
I always thought landing at Chicago Midway was cool......until watching this video.👍🏻👍🏻
Can I get a tl;dr on how to do this? I was just doing touch and goes at KCOI and I was admiring the VAB all day today. I know it was a special occasion, but how did you find out about the chance?
TheCptCoy the airfield ARFF did aircraft familiarization training, and invited some local folks to bring aircraft in.
Now that is a runway.
6:52 why is that space shuttle standing in open. ? Is that real one? What's the name?
THIS RUNWAY gives the term _"Landing Long"_ a *new* meaning.
SAME for *_"Back Taxi"._*
😄😄😄😄
“I promise I’m not gonna roll it”
“This thing would be so easy to roll”
That f-105 starfight aka the widow maker is badass
F-104
Way cool!!
This video boutta blow up
Haha, I sure hope so
Wow, you buttered that landing on the return flight
E-P-I-C !!! Such a tremendous opportunity you had ! Thanks for sharing the video PS: you should do some aerobatic on that C150 and do some videos ! Saludos from chile :D
Thank you for the kind words! I’m already planning on doing some aerobatics in it, I will definitely share the video. Saludos hermano :)
So i didnt get it in the video. How were you able to land there??
The owner of the school I rent from works for NASA so when the fire department was holding a special event he got his planes on a pre-approved list to land there
@floridaflying that is amazing how did you manage to do this? Also do you go to Ucf?
Hey. What camera(s)/equipment(s) did you use to put on your Cessna? Great video btw.
That is the longest butter I've ever seen.
YES!!!
Nice location for some pattern training.
You can do a cross country and pattern work at the same time 😄
I lived in Titusville and worked at the VAB from 1966 to 1971. Of course the runway wasn't built until after I left. It was real a treat to ride with you guys. Lots of fun except for the god awful music you played for the whole trip. Why did you mess up some wonderful engine sounds and ATC calls with that crap? Anyway, thanks for the ride.
On such a special runway. Even for a Cessna 150, landing fees and handling charges must have been expensive, I would imagine.
In this case, it was totally free
And you can do something NO SHUTTLE can POSSIBLY do -- a go-around !!!
Who is the guy next to you? He looks like Luigi Datome!
He mentioned that it was his brother Nico
Alex Vertikov did not get the joke 🙄
circles space shuttle
me: that’s a Boeing 747 xd
Your video came in my recommended, GO KNIGHTS
CHARGE ON!
I would like to go for a plane ride looks fun
Landing my Comanche 180 at DFW I flew almost the entire runway length as controller asked me to keep up my speed. Taxied to general avaition.
Great video! Nice to meet your brother...what is his piloting story?
Thank you! I’ll be doing a video about him and his plane in the near future
The Cessna could almost take off going across the runway!
I like Aerobat painted upside down. I think I would have rolled it.
NASA no longer manages the Landing Facility, Space Florida now manages and operates the Landing Facility and is developing it as a commercial spaceport.
Lots of runway
hello i have question im living in korea and i m student pilot in korea & studying ppl curriculum do usa aviation student have also aviation slump and instructor shout to student frequently? (in korea shout to student is frequent)
ᄋᄋ depends on the instructor, our batch instructor was chill however the other instructor for the other batch was very strict and shouted a lot
Me and the bois raiding Nasa and coming back with an orbiter
UCF!!! GO KNIGHTS !!!
There is s star fighter in Norway but the explosive in the seats are out of date so they can’t fly it in shows
Problemx3
Hold on, did you just say Norway? Like in Norge ??
Ja
An OV-1D Mohawk had a fatal accident recently and had cold seats due to the same logistical issue. The pilot would have survived if his seats were hot and armed. Definitely a good call on althe authorities there.
Are you not able to retract the landing gears?
Zane Seegers most light general aviation airplanes have fixed gear.
Ok real question, how can I get a ride along with you?
What state?
6:50 *mockup space shuttle
Whats the back ground sound
You are flying with Spaceport aviation?
Yep!
I thought that the runway was rarely used
Imagine and people who work at NASA likes your Cessna and wants to go on for a ride
It’s not actually as “impossible” to land here as you say it is. In fact it’s becoming easier by the day seems like.
No not impossible, but pretty rare. It would be nice if they open it up to more pilots. You could get about 10 touch n goes in the same pattern!
Were is that NASA building at?
Kennedy space center, where they assembled the shuttle and Saturn V
That must have been the easiest landing ever. Landing a Cessna 150 on a runway that’s 15,000 feet long. Considering that even larger jets, such as the Boeing 747, the Airbus A380 and even the Antonov AN-225, land on much shorter runways.
6:55 wiggly wiggly
What is the song at 8:10
What type of aircraft does your brother fly?
Glasair 1 taildragger. I’ll make a video all about his plane
Land at Area 51 next time :)))
9.0 popa popaaaa
What did he mean "catch you tomorrow"?
This was a 3 day event, so maybe he thought I’d be there the next day
Bacteria landed on NASA's runway !
what i would give to fly that f104 star fighter
WHY IS THE DOOR STICKER UPSIDE DOWN
Hg Dd it’s the aerobatic Version of the 150 so it can go inverted and the like. Seems like someone had some fun with that and decided the put it upside down.
Did u guys see the other plane
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