Here's something you REALLY don't see every day

[slinkp]

Final flight of the shuttle Enterprise.
From the roof at work... Sorry  I don't have an optical zoom lens. It looked cooler to the naked eye.

[gweimer]

Someone I went to school with just posted a shot very similar from his rooftop on FB.  That has to be very cool to see live.

[Highlander]

Enterprise and her carrier did a flypast of London Heathrow once (I lived on the flightpath at the time) and then spent the night at Stanstead before going over to the Paris airshow way back when...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stuart166axe/2311179764/

a link to a page withminor details...

oh yeah, only other time I got lucky with seeing a "real" shuttle was attached to the ISS on one flypast, once...