Aircraft Carrier And Museum, Uss Intrepid in New York City
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The aircraft carrier Intrepid is permanently moored near the Circle Line pier.
A visit to the Intrepid is included in the CityPass, so we went there as well.
"Intrepid" means "courageous", "daring" and "brave".
It is an aircraft carrier built towards the end of Second World war.
Its water displacement is 40000 tons, it could carry 100 planes and 3500 crew.
The fighters and anti-aircraft guns of the Intrepid have destroyed 600 enemy planes,
damaged or sunk 250 enemy vessels. But the aircraft carrier took damage as well.
This photo depicts the damage caused by attack from two kamikaze aircraft in 1944.
6 officers and 59 sailors were killed in the attack.
The Intrepid opened as an air and space museum in August of 1982.
Besides the aircraft carrier, the museum includes a submarine - the Growler
and a Concorde supersonic passenger jet.
USS stands for "United States Ship", and CVS is the classification - antisubmarine aircraft carrier.
First, we enter the hangar deck, which serves now as an exhibition hall.
This memorial resides in the Arlington cemetery in Washington.
The memorial was designed from a photo made by a war correspondent Rosenthal
of soldiers putting up an U.S. flag on the Iwo Jima island in spring of 1945.
The Intrepid has a model of the memorial.
A tribute to 9/11 emergency workers.
Ship models.
The evolution of airplanes and helicopters.
A war zeppelin of the U.S. Navy.
A flight simulator that can be experienced at additional cost.
A history of submarines. First wooden submarine - "Bushnell's Turtle".
The schematics and the place where it was first used - near Manhattan.
A later, more advanced submarine.
A wooden model of a German ship.
Models of armored vehicles.
The history of space exploration.
A Gemini spacecraft from mid-1960's.
A model of a space shuttle with a launcher.
Exiting to the flight deck, where aircraft and helicopters are displayed.
Folding blades of this helicopter's rotor.
Lockheed A-12 "Black bird" - a supersonic (up to Mach 4) spy plane.
Its flight ceiling is 30 km.
Airplanes with folding wings.
Intricate connections at the folding point.
One of the earlier airborne surveillance (AWACS) radar-equipped planes.
"Tomcat" - a 1970's multipurpose fighter plane with variable wing geometry.
It has a ceiling is 16km and top speed of Mach 2.3.
It is still used in the Iranian Air Force.
A Soviet MIG-21 multipurpose fighter jet. Top speed - Mach 1.5, ceiling - 19km.
This plane belonged to Poland.
Israeli "Kfir" ("lion cub") multipurpose fighter with desert-colored paint.
It was designed in 1970's, the design was based on a French "Mirage" fighter.
U.S. have used 12 planes of this type, often as an "opposing force" during exercises.
A memorial plaque to a team of gunners who were killed during a kamikaze attack.
Going to the superstructure. The ship's anti-aircraft guns can be seen from here.
A view from the upper deck.
Checking if everything is in order.
A list of trivia about the Intrepid. The list of food consumed in one day is impressive.
A view of the Concorde from above.
The landing gear.
Entrance to the cockpit.
The Growler submarine and the waiting room (the tour is in groups).
This bulkhead door is placed in the waiting room. Visitors that can't get through it
are not allowed on the submarine, since this is the only kind of door found there.
The command center.
A torpedo bay with bunks for crew members.
A few more items from the collection: a WWII Russian tank and a segment of the Berlin Wall.
A few more shots from the Intrepid's deck.
Since October 2006 and until May 2008 the Intrepid will be closed for renovation.
