The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum is the only museum where visitors can experience a legendary aircraft carrier, the first space shuttle, the world's fastest jets and a guided missile submarine. Welcoming more than one million visitors annually, the mission of the Intrepid Museum is to promote the awareness and understanding of history, science and service through its collections, exhibitions and programming in order to honor our heroes, educate the public and inspire our youth.
It was 1973 or 74 I believe. USS Forrestal was operating in the Med with Britian's HMS Ark Royal. A Royal Navy F-4 had to land on the Forrestal and when it launched the next day it was adorned with a large VF-11 Red Ripper Decal on the rear stabilizer. Well as luck would have it, VF-11 had to land one of their F-4s on the Ark Royal. When it returned to the Forrestal the next day the entire rear stabilizer was painted Royal Navy blue with a large omega emblem on it. The message was clear, don't mess with the Brits!
Hi Chris, you look great! Today is the last day of this amazing exhibition. Wish it could stay there longer, you guys took so much effort to build it... Loved it. Look forward to seeing the next big thing that you're cooking.
I worked for Lockheed and Rolls-Royce at Stennis Space Center from 2004-2012, and serval of my teammates build the mock-up for the Orion capsule that won us the contract. Fast forward over 10 years, I was looking for work and looked at Lockheed again in Denver, where I'm from and moved back to in 2018. Contacted my old boss from Metrology, and he found a position for me at the Littleton, CO Lockheed facility, where ironically the Orion capsule was being worked on. I ended up declining the position due to pay. Small world!
I am currently writing a book from 181 love letters from Don Vivian to his Bride to Be Peggy Vivian. He was on the Intrepid in 1957! I will reach out to the museum when it is complete.
This is really good news. In my previous visits to Intrepid, it’s left me with the impression that it’s an aviation museum that happens to be on a ship, with the ship itself offering very little interpretive value. Very glad that they’re putting some time into telling the story of the ship.
When I was eleven (1966), my dad took my mom, older sister and I up separately three weekends in a row. I was first. He did a stall and a spin. That night at dinner, mom and sister said they’d go up as long as dad didn’t do anything fancy. It’s a memory I’ll never forget. Let me know if I remember this part correctly. I had to push a button on top of the stick to be able to talk to dad in front.
One of the video sequences was a trainer version, note the 2nd cockpit being higher than the primary. Was this the A-12 two seater (airframe 124) or the SR-71B two seater?
Hi from Australia. 🌏 I was extremely surprised to learn of all those timber tall sailing ships that is buried deep under the foundations of New York city. Placed there back in the day for residential occupants. I learnt of this through the documentarys of Drained the oceans away.
