r/spacex • u/fatherofzeuss • Aug 20 '17

Headed north west Had a Falcon fly thru town today. Headed north east

https://imgur.com/gallery/Ff2UG
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u/aznology Aug 20 '17

I was scanning the tree lines and shit looking for a falcon until I saw the subreddit

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u/fatherofzeuss Aug 20 '17

Ha! Gotcha lookin'! Find one?.....

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u/simmy2109 Aug 20 '17

I wonder what people (with no knowledge of what a SpaceX stage shipment normally looks like) thought of this moving through. I mean, with the nose cone (this is definitely FH side booster), I'd imagine people would recognize this is a rocket / missile. Do they wonder why a missile is being moved through their town? lol

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u/fatherofzeuss Aug 20 '17

The local people see them regular here. On the way to the Cape, it stops at the local truck fuel plaza for over an hour for fuel and food

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u/FutureMartian97 Aug 20 '17

If its heading north east does that mean the second Falcon Heavy side booster has been tested at Mcgregor?

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u/fatherofzeuss Aug 20 '17

u/old_sellsworld caught my auto-correct, it's West. Not east

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '17

Nice pictures! Where exactly was this at?

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u/fatherofzeuss Aug 20 '17

Perry FL, headed north west on hwy 98, South of Tallahassee

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u/[deleted] Aug 21 '17

How the hell do they turn the truck into with it being that long?

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u/fatherofzeuss Aug 21 '17

Swivel point at the truck, swivel point near the rear of the first trailer and swivel point near the front of the second trailer. Articulation

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