I saw that eclipse thing from about 8,000 feet off Wallops Island VA in the late 60s or early 70s, where I flew down in my Aeronca 7AC to see totality. You had to be pretty far offshore to be out of the Wallops Island restricted zone. You could see non-totality in the distance.
More interesting was a rocket fired off from Wallops Island, just going to the attention grabbingness. They were after ionospheric measurements, I'd guess.
One of the beaches down there had a Piper J-3 Cub parked on it, another approach.
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I saw that eclipse thing from about 8,000 feet off Wallops Island VA in the late 60s or early 70s, where I flew down in my Aeronca 7AC to see totality. You had to be pretty far offshore to be out of the Wallops Island restricted zone. You could see non-totality in the distance.
More interesting was a rocket fired off from Wallops Island, just going to the attention grabbingness. They were after ionospheric measurements, I'd guess.
One of the beaches down there had a Piper J-3 Cub parked on it, another approach.
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