{"id":153,"date":"2007-06-30T00:43:55","date_gmt":"2007-06-29T16:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/?p=153"},"modified":"2007-06-30T00:54:58","modified_gmt":"2007-06-29T16:54:58","slug":"flashback-wince-winter-cloud-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/?p=153","title":{"rendered":"Flashback: WINCE (WINter Cloud Experiment)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/takeoff0.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After seeing the NASA ER-2 708 in the hangar, I learned that the mission scheduled for\u00a0the next day, Feb 8, 1997,\u00a0was a &#8220;GO&#8221;.\u00a0 So I drove to Dane County Airport in the morining and waited in the heated passenger terminal.\u00a0 It was not only because it&#8217;s warm inside (hey, it&#8217;s Wisconsin), but also because I thought the ER-2 would take off from Runway 18\/36, which\u00a0is the runway normally used by\u00a0commercial airliners and is closer to the terminal.\u00a0 Inside the terminal and to my surprise, I ran into a Meteorology student who also went to see the ER-2 the previous day.<\/p>\n<p>I was very excited then because it was my first time to see a U-2 fly.\u00a0 But the ER-2 took off from the much shorter Runway 14\/32, which is quite far away from the terminal.\u00a0 Even worse was that it did not use much of the runway before it rotated.\u00a0 I did not have big lens then (not now either), thus the grainy pictures here.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/takeoff1.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">This is a blowup of the first picture.\u00a0 Did you see anything special about this aircraft?\u00a0 If not, that&#8217;s ok, because I did not find out until ten years later, when I scanned the photos for the blog.<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/takeoff2.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">It&#8217;s retracting the landing gear.\u00a0 I was surprised to see the black smoke.\u00a0 I wonder if the new engine has the same problem.<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/takeoff3.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/takeoff4.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/takeoff5.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">Adios!<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After seeing the NASA ER-2 708 in the hangar, I learned that the mission scheduled for\u00a0the next day, Feb 8, 1997,\u00a0was a &#8220;GO&#8221;.\u00a0 So I drove to Dane County Airport in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}