Posted Apr 27, 2012, 9:33 AM
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Fri Forecast: It’s A Bird! It’s A Plane! It’s A Space Shuttle!
April 26, 2012 by A. Staff
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■As it first approaches the area, the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) flies up the Hudson River past the west side of Manhattan at 1,500 feet, and then climbs to 3,000 after it passes the George Washington Bridge.
■SCA will then make a left-handed U-turn when it reaches the Tappan Zee Bridge to fly down the Hudson, descending back to 1,500 ft when it reaches the Alpine radio tower near the New York/New Jersey border.
■SCA continues past Manhattan down to the Verrazano Narrows Bridge.
■Once it passes south of the Verrazano, the next part of SCA’s itinerary depends on which runways are in use at Newark Airport.
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http://www.nycaviation.com/where-to-...e-in-new-york/
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Enroute to its new home at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, Space Shuttle Enterprise is tentatively scheduled to fly to New York on Friday, April 27, between 10:30am and 11:30am, riding piggyback on a Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft.
This once-in-a-lifetime flight will be visible to millions of people as the Shuttle/Carrier combo fly over much of the New York City area at low altitude (1000-3000 ft) before landing at John F. Kennedy International Airport. The five boroughs will see the most action, but areas as far north as Tarrytown and Nyack, NY, and as far east as Westbury, NY, will get some shuttle love as well.
On the map above, the blue line represents an approximation of the planned path, green thumbtacks mark the best spots to spot the action, and the white diamonds mark key landmarks on the path.
Based on an FAA flight itinerary we’ve obtained, here are 17 spots in Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Staten Island, Long Island, New Jersey and Westchester where we think you’re most likely to get a good view.
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http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/s...RBbOWYyyKMF99L
Spaceshipped
Shuttle to buzz NYC today
By BILL SANDERSON
April 27, 2012
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Everyone in the metro New York area will have a front-row seat today for the space shuttle Enterprise’s low-altitude grand tour of the region — on a journey leading eventually to its new home on the USS Intrepid. “This will be just about the most exciting plane-spotting event for New Yorkers ever,” said Matt Molnar, editor of the aviation-enthusiast Web site NYCAviation.com. The shuttle — piggybacked atop a Boeing 747 — will take off from Dulles Airport near Washington at about 9:30 a.m. and is expected to arrive over the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge at about 10:30.
The plane will land on Kennedy Airport’s 14,572-foot-long Runway 31L. The shuttle will be taken off the 747 in the next few weeks. In June, it’s expected to be transferred to a barge and floated back up the Hudson River to the Intrepid Museum, where it’s expected to draw 1.3 million visitors per year. The museum expects to open the shuttle to the public in July.
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It will look fantastic when its new home is built.
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Originally Posted by yankeesfan1000
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