Manhattan, NY – The Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum on Wednesday morning is moving three aircrafts from its flight deck to make room for the space shuttle Enterprise.
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The aircrafts will be hoisted by crane onto the pier and then a barge. They’ll be taken to the Empire State Aerosciences Museum in Glenville, N.Y.
They include a Supermarine Scimitar F.1 British Royal Navy fighter bomber, a Douglas F3D-2 (F-10) Skyknight and a Mikoyan Gurevich MIG-15 aircraft.
The Enterprise is scheduled to arrive at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport on Monday. It will be brought to the Intrepid by barge in June and subsequently go on public display in a temporary pavilion.
The Intrepid is working on the Enterprise’s permanent location.
Pitty it wasn’t there on chol hamoed
These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise….
The Enterprise once flew over NYC while on a 747. What a sight!!
The Enterprise didn’t actually fly in space. It was used to test the shuttle’s capabilities to glide after reentry into the atmosphere. It has been on display at the Smithsonian’s aeorspace museum branch at Dulles Airport near Washington, D.C. However, it has been replaced there by the Discovery — which did fly in space — which arrived here yesterday perched atop a 747 in a spectacular fly-by over the National Mall. I suspect that New York will get a similar show when the Enterprise flies into JFK.