Posted on 05/08/2012 9:26:57 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Explanation: What's that in the background? Two famous New York City icons stand tall in the above photo taken last week. On the left looms the Statue of Liberty, a universal symbol of freedom, while on the right rises the Empire State Building, now the second largest building in the city. What's unique about this once-in-a-lifetime photograph, though, is the third icon that appears to Lady Liberty's left. High in the air and far in the background flies the space shuttle Enterprise -- perched atop a 747 jet -- on the way to its new home. New Yorkers and visitors to the Big Apple can visit the test space shuttle at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum on the West Side of Manhattan starting July 19.
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[Credit: NASA, Bill Ingalls]
Gee, the Astronomy pic. of the day seems less then astronomical.
That’s creepy. It looks like it’s going to fly up Lady Liberty’s butt!!
That’s creepy. It looks like it’s going to fly up Lady Liberty’s butt!!
That’s kind of surrealistic looking. Nice pic though.
The administration that saw fit to end NASA also saw fit to send our orbiters to blue states and snub HOUSTON.
Houston, we have a problem.
Checked it out with Google Earth. You can’t acutally reproduce this image, even approximately, because GE doesn’t have a zoom capability. What they refer to as zoom is moving your POV closer, which is not the same thing as a camera zoom. Kind of ironic I guess because the name is predicated on the similarity of a camera zoom to actually “zooming” in closer, which is what GE does. When you try it though, all the angles change, as the various buidlings, and The Statue of Liberty of course, are at different distances. What you can do is “zoom” ( i.e. move, in simulation ) back, keeping the SoL in position, and in this way discover the probable camera position, which is at the end of a huge pier in Bayonne. BTW that reddish building to the right is in Brooklyn.
Interesting photo! I like it.
Thanks very much!
Thanks. Interesting to think of all of the history that Lady Liberty has “seen” over the years.
OBAMA PLANE PHOTO OP STARTLES NEW YORKERS
By DAVID SEIFMAN, MURRAY WEISS and JEREMY OLSHAN
April 27, 2009
A jumbo jet being chased by a F-16 fighter jets buzzed Lower Manhattan this morning, panicking New Yorkers, many of whom were forced to evacuate their office buildings.
It was not a terrorist attack, however, but a photo opportunity for Air Force One, sources told the Post.
OBAMA PLANE PHOTO OP STARTLES NEW YORKERS (2009)
http://www.nypost.com/seven/04272009/news/regionalnews/obama_plane_photo_op_startles_new_yorker_166470.htm
Photo not complete without tourist guy.
What is that white streak (spot? artifact?) above and slightly to the left of the shuttle and plane?
Probably a fighter jet escort.
Shuttle Enterprise's first piggyback voyage, 1977
Oooh! Thanks!
Turns out there were 2 fighter jet escorts. They were very difficult to see on other pics and vids I checked.
Sending two escorts must be SOP.
Here's a pic of the April 2012 flyover with one of the escorts:
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