Space Shuttle Enterprise On Its Way To New York City [flyover expected bet 9:30 & 11:30AM today!]

newyork.cbslocal.com ^ | April 27, 2012

[ETL]

NEW YORK (CBS-New York) -- Space shuttle Enterprise will soon begin its final voyage to its new home in New York City.

The shuttle is being airlifted on the back of a 747 from Washington’s Dulles Airport. It will then fly over New York City before landing at John F. Kennedy International Airport.

Enterprise was the first shuttle ever to be built by NASA. It never flew into space, but Enterprise paved the way for others that did. NASA engineers used the Enterprise to figure out how to land a shuttle, launching the glider from the back of a modified 747 in 1977.

After years at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, its new home will be on the deck of the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum. ..."

[FreeAtlanta]

Obama is making sure to get these birds into Museums and the vitals removed before the election.

He is a treasonous bastard.

[dead]

Just went to get a coffee in the break room, where CNN bleats out all day. They showed it live, flying over what looked like Elizabeth. So I walked outside to our parking deck and looked towards the Hudson.

Then I turned around and it was right behind me, flying over the Giants Stadium area. Got a great look as it banked over Bergen County and headed back over the Hudson.

Thanks for the heads up! Cool stuff.

[ETL]

You’re welcome. I went back to bed soon after posting and so missed it. I don’t if it would have been visible from my part of NY anyway. Guess I’ll have to wait for the pics to come out.

Yes, that is indeed a very funny Profile/Home page you have:
http://www.freerepublic.com/~dead/

[Texas Songwriter]

I am pleased that these flyovers were directed to those cities which developed and made these vehicles fly...like Houston, Cape Canaveral.....you know, showing their appreciation. Oh, excuse me...New York and Washington...they get that perk.

[conductor john]

I witnessed the flyover from the Steven’s Inst. of Tech overlook, high above Hoboken, NJ. There were THOUSANDS out for the flyover, and many, (including me!) shouted with excitement as the flight neared and passed over, accompanied by an F-18, I think. Maybe less than 2000ft, it seemed enormous and slow. Yet the feeling of national pride was palpable. ‘Never let an audience go quietly,’ I always say. I bicycled through the crowd, reminding everyone that OBAMA killed the space shuttle, and encouraged everyone to ‘be proud of America again’ and DEPORT OBAMA!

[GraceG]

[ Well, Obama does like those big planes flying over NY.... ]

As part of NASA Mooslimb outreach the space shuttle Enterprise will be glided into the Chrysler Building.

[mikrofon]

[dead]

I am pleased that these flyovers were directed to those cities which developed and made these vehicles fly...like Houston, Cape Canaveral.....you know, showing their appreciation.

Dude, I think you're missing the point of the flyover.

The shuttle flew in or out of Houston and Cape Canaveral all the time. What would be the point of another flyover of their home bases?

There has never been a shuttle in the sky around NYC before. That was what was interesting about it.