Attention, passengers: Final Call
Now approaching Slip 3: The Concorde
We're welcoming a new neighbor on the waterfront this morning: the Concorde, now part of the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum, right across the Hudson from us in New York. After the final commercial flight Oct. 24, all seven of the British Airways supersonic jets were donated to museums around the world. For this BA Concorde, that meant one more flight from Heathrow to JFK, and then a journey by barge from there under the Verrazano Narrows Bridge, across New York Harbor and up the Hudson past Jersey City, Hoboken, and Weehawken.
Although I caught a glimpse of it passing Rockaway Beach before dawn this morning on the BBC News, I wasn't able to find it with the Towercam until it was well past the bridge:
That's Staten Island in the background.
By the time the slow-moving barge passed Battery Park City, I pulled on my official Blogger hoodie (Thanks, Blogger!) and went out to capture a bit of history as the Concorde passed the 14th Street Pier:
The Concorde and I were once neighbors in a different sense: In June, 1974, we shared the front page of the Dayton Daily News -- that is, its photo and my name were both on that page. Concorde's accomplishment was flying across the Atlantic and back in a single day. Mine was covering a disturbance at a local university.
posted by Janet Dagley Dagley @11:58 AM
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