This foto shortchanges both Porto–container vessel at Howland Hook–and whatever aircraft flies above it. Which aircraft . . . you may wonder?
This one!! Or these ones.
Astride the Boeing’s shoulders is OV-101, the engineless shuttle that never entered space, escorted
by a T-38 chase plane.
They checked out the Bayonne Bridge and
scoped out progress on the still second-tallest building in Manhattan,
as closeup as they could . . .
and flew over Newark Liberty International before landing at Kennedy. The foto below is a clue to my special platform for these shots . . . to be revealed tomorrow.
Check out John Skelson’s fotos here. And great landing fotos here by John Huntington. Still more here by Mai Armstrong.
Ultimately,Enterprise will be barged upriver and be preserved as part of the Intrepid Sea, Air, and Space Museum. To make room for OV-101, the museum has sent three aircraft upriver, literally: MiG-15, a Douglas F-3D Skyknight, and a Supermarine Scimitar. To see them barging upriver to ESAM, be at the Waterford Flight of Five tomorrow.
And on the subject of preservation, a request . . . tug Pegasus and Lehigh Valley 79 need your vote to demonstrate the power of social media and, thereby, win a grant. Vote DAILY!!
Click on the logo below, register, scroll thru to find “Tug Pegasus and Waterfront Museum Barge,” and vote once a day through May 21. Ask your friends to vote too.
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April 28, 2012 at 10:18 am
walt
Will,
Thank you as usual: I was up on the GWB watching the Enterprise fly over the Bridge, up and back, then cranked into the city.
I can’t justify buying a digital camera, Iphone or cell phone, everything i see is already on the computer. I just wish the tourists on the Brooklyn bridge would by a nice picture postcard of same!
wss
April 29, 2012 at 3:25 pm
Ken
Colour me jealous.
April 30, 2012 at 12:29 pm
starbuck5250
Argh! I was in Buffalo and missed both ENTERPRISE and the planes coming up to ESAM 😦