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EXES Teacher Associates Field Trip to Waco
 February 2000

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Wearing safety glasses,
standing near SOFIA

Another shot of group
near SOFIA

Hole cut open in
Section 46 as a test case
for the "real thing"


A view of SOFIA
and its supports
inside the hangar

Section 46 has acquired
a foam-core, cardboard
and foil telescope

Examining the inside
of the empty
SOFIA airplane


Jody Harkrider, Steve
Scott, MJ Tykoski,
and DavidTemple at
the console in the
SOFIA mock-up

Danny Lopez and Jason Law
at the mock-up console

Marsha Willis with our
SOFIA tour guide,
Doug Debrecht
 





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