Wednesday October 17, 2012

 

 

Intrepid & Enterprise

World War II Battle Ship & Space Shuttle

As we approached the Intrepid, I noticed a cruise ship in the background and remembered seeing the airplanes on the flight deck of this vessel when we left on our cruise in January. Back then I didn’t realize it was the Intrepid.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I suppose there are much larger ships, but it looked huge to me.

 

 

The flight deck of the ship holds many airplanes and the space shuttle.

 

 

Lockheed A-12 Blackbird

These performed sensitive intelligence gathering missions beginning in 1962 with a maximum speed of 2,210 mph at 75,000 ft. (that’s three times the speed of sound).

 

 

If was fun seeing one of these up close.

 

 

Intrepid Museum is proud to be one of the few places in the world to provide the opportunity for visitors to get an up close view of a space shuttle – inside the balloon-shaped pavilion.

 

 

 

 

My first words were, “Oh, wow!” as I saw how huge it was.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Flying over Central Park as the Enterprise arrived in New York City in early June.

This is one of the pictures I saw on TV that day, causing me to want to see it up close. 

I was not disappointed.