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Experienced a Concorde, nuclear submarine & more at the Intrepid Museum

19th June 2023, 16:24 by Utkarsh Chaudhary

The museum has a deck and hanger full of interesting aircraft and a space shuttle in an enclosure.

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Living in NYC does have some drawbacks (insane rents, taxes, crime) but one of the biggest plus points for me is having this across the street:

Launched in 1943, the former aircraft carrier USS Intrepid fought in World War II, surviving five kamikaze attacks and one torpedo strike. The ship later served in the Cold War and the Vietnam War. Intrepid also served as a NASA recovery vessel in the 1960s. It was decommissioned in 1974, and today is berthed on the Hudson River as the centerpiece of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum.

About 30+ years ago my family lived about 1.5 hours drive from here and I had asked my dad to bring me here many times however the trip never materialised. Never imagined one day I could walk across the street to visit it.

The museum has a deck and hanger full of interesting aircraft and a space Shuttle in an enclosure as well as a retired submarine and Concorde parked next to it.

Some aircraft on the deck:

F-16 Falcon

A-12 (predecessor to the SR-71 Blackbird)

Experimental F-14 Super Tomcat

A-6 Intruder

MCDONNELL F3H-2N (F-3B) DEMON

AV-8 Harrier

F-4 Phantom

VOUGHT (F8U) F-8K CRUSADER

MIKOYAN-GUREVICH / PZL-MIELEC MiG-17 / Actually a LIM-5 painted in VPAF colours of a Mig-17.

Polish Mig-21 also painted in VPAF colours

NORTH AMERICAN FJ-3 FURY

The Space Shuttle Pavilion showcases the space shuttle Enterprise, the prototype NASA orbiter that paved the way for the space shuttle program. The Enterprise never actually went into space and was used for tests.