{"id":3041,"date":"2011-01-05T14:00:32","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T14:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=3041"},"modified":"2011-01-05T14:40:44","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T14:40:44","slug":"concorde-at-the-intrepid-museum-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/concorde-at-the-intrepid-museum-nyc\/","title":{"rendered":"Concorde at the Intrepid Museum, NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Standing rather forlornly on a barge at the end of a Manhattan jetty on New York’s west side is retired British Airways Concorde aircraft, number G-BOAD.<\/p>\n

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Although it’s unlikely to ever fly again, this is the plane that set a world speed record for passenger airliners on February 7, 1996, when it hurtled from New York to London in just 2 hours, 52 minutes and 59 seconds.<\/p>\n

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Concorde carried over 2.5 million passengers at supersonic speeds from 1976 until making \u00a0its last commercial flight from New York to London\u00a0on 24 October, 2003.<\/p>\n

In 1986,\u00a0the plane made its first round the world flight covering 28,238 miles in 29 hours 59 minutes.<\/p>\n

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As I’ve said before, there’s a lot of reasons why I should hate\u00a0Concorde\u00a0– it was, after all, a gas guzzling plaything for the rich and powerful – but I’ve always been won over by its sheer\u00a0elegance, futuristic lines and incredible engineering achievement.<\/p>\n

It’s a beautiful plane.<\/p>\n

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The\u00a0incredible\u00a0expanding craft<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to the official Concorde site<\/a>, the plane measured\u00a0204ft in length but – and this is the\u00a0amazing\u00a0bit – the plane stretched\u00a0between six and ten inches<\/em> further in-flight\u00a0due to the heating of the airframe.<\/p>\n

To stop all the paint peeling off , the clever clogs techie folks created\u00a0a special white paint that was super flexible.<\/p>\n

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Concorde’s wingspan is 83ft 8ins – much less than conventional subsonic aircraft – and the big slab of\u00a0supersonic\u00a0loveliness stands 37ft 1ins high.<\/p>\n

When you see it in the flesh it’s quite surprising how small it seems.<\/p>\n

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Concorde took off at a much faster speed than regular subsonic planes (220 knots\/250mph compared to 165 knots ) and cruised at around 1350mph – more than twice the speed of sound.<\/p>\n

The plane flew very high in the sky too, at an altitude of up to 60,000 ft (over 11 miles high).<\/p>\n

London to New York used to take just under three and a half hours as opposed to the eight hours or so you can expect in a ‘modern’ aircraft nowadays.<\/p>\n

Sadly, I never got to fly in Concorde, and I guess I never will.<\/p>\n

Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Concorde is one of the main exhibits at the \u00a0Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum on\u00a0Pier 86 at\u00a0W46th\/12th Ave.<\/p>\n

The museum covers military and maritime history museum, based around the World War II aircraft carrier USS Intrepid, with the\u00a0collection\u00a0including\u00a0the submarine USS Growler and a Lockheed A-12 supersonic reconnaissance plane.<\/p>\n

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Pricey – but free to walk about<\/strong><\/p>\n

There’s a hefty\u00a0admission\u00a0price to get into the museum, but there is an option to walk around the site and along the jetty for free.<\/p>\n

They don’t seem so keen on letting you do that, so you have to enter via the main paying gate, go through the\u00a0security\u00a0checks and then tell them that you’re a cheapskate and don’t want to pay.<\/p>\n

Seeing as Americans have been visiting our museums for free for years, we had no qualms about doing just that,\u00a0although\u00a0no admission paid = no look inside Concorde. The rotters!<\/p>\n

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The museum opened in 1982 after USS Intrepid was saved from the scrap heap in 1978. The ship was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1986.<\/p>\n

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That’s a cruise missile sticking out of the sub!<\/p>\n

[Museum location<\/a>] [urban75 New York photos<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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