This morning I organized little run down to the Promenade to see the Enterprise get a ride into JFK on the back of a 747. It was really cool but I thought it had been in space. I learned hours later that it was a prototype. According to
Wikipedia It
"performed test flights in the atmosphere. It was constructed without engines or a functional heat shield, and was therefore not capable of spaceflight. On September 17, 1976, the first full scale prototype was completed." WTF, it's a model.
But I did not know that when I saw it. I thought I was looking at a real spaceship. I got to take this really cool photo. It was really cool to see what I thought was a space ship. I will always have that moment.
Much better photos can be found all over the Internets including this article in the
Patch that helped me improve my famousousity.
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I thought it was a real space ship being retired and sent to the Smithsonian. Shows how much Canadians know. But I envy you the moment when you photographed it and felt you had captured history. The feeling is what counts.
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Very interesting history and photo. is unusual look up and see those ships ...
ReplyDeleteThat is so cool, even if it's just a model! At first, I thought the upper one was the shadow of the plane.
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