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The James Bond Film That Was Nearly ‘More Austin Powers Than Austin Powers’ (www.cracked.com)
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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It did happen during Enterprise's glide tests.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wait, did they actually fire the rockets during a 747 detach test flight?

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No, they didn't start the engines, but the shuttle did detach from the airplane. Which I'm pretty sure had an indicator light in the 747's cockpit for the orbiter detaching.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

Ah ok, that makes sense!