"user314" (user314)
08/03/2020 at 11:00 • Filed to: flightline, Planelopnik, planelopnik history, paris, Paris Auto Show, paris motor show, paris airshow, Space Shuttle, shuttle carrier aircraft, Concorde
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"user314" (user314)
08/03/2020 at 11:00 • Filed to: flightline, Planelopnik, planelopnik history, paris, Paris Auto Show, paris motor show, paris airshow, Space Shuttle, shuttle carrier aircraft, Concorde | 4
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A Vision of Futures Past
!!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , June 1983
Freshly repainted over-all white with simple blue !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! and the NASA worm logo, !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! 905 sits at Le Bourget airport with !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , the STS flight test article known as Enterprise on its back and a !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! taking off in the background. During 1983 and ‘84 the Enterprise was flown around Europe, visiting Italy, West Germany and the UK, before stopping in France for the ‘83 Paris Air Show, then continued on to Canada before visiting Alabama and Louisiana for the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , finally stopping in California to perform a fit-check at the (eventually unused) !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! Placed in storage from 1985, then on display at the Smithsonian’s Udvar-Hazy Center at Washington-Dulles from 2003-2011, the Enterprise was moved to the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! in NYC, while 905 is on display at the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! in Houston, with the replica orbiter !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! (nee Explorer ) mounted on its back.
The biennial !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! traces it s roots back to 1908, when the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! dedicated a section to aircraft. In the autumn of 1909, the Salon de la locomotion aérienne dedicated solely to aircraft, was held, drawing one hundred thousand visitors over three weeks. Held four more times before the outbreak of The Great War, restarting again in 1919 before stopping due to World War Two. Restarted in 1946, by 1949 the show was back to an odd-year schedule, in addition to being moved from the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! and !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! to Le Bourget in 1953 . The show is now the largest air show/aerospace exhibition, drawing almost 2500 exhibitors from 49 countries in addition to air demonstration teams and new aircraft from around the world.
Along with Enterprise , other visitors to the ‘83 show were the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , which was later refined into the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , and the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , which later became the Dassault Rafale.
Being that many new and experimental aircraft are flown at the Paris Airshow, it’s not unexpected that there have been some accidents, with two Convair B-58s being lost at the ‘61 and ‘65 shows, an A-10 crash in 1977, a MiG-29 in 1989 and a Su-30 in 1999. The worst crash, though, occurred in !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! when a !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! SST crashed into the ground for reasons that are still under debate. All six flight crew were killed , along with 8 people on the ground, as well as 60 injuries.
facw
> user314
08/03/2020 at 11:18 |
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I saw Enterprise flying on the SCA when they brought it into Dulles. I knew they flew shuttles like that, but I had no idea how rare it was, because as a three year old, I had no idea that the DC area was not between California and Florida, so it wasn’t part of a normal flight.
ttyymmnn
> user314
08/03/2020 at 12:09 |
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I think I just had a historygasm.
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user314
> ttyymmnn
08/03/2020 at 12:18 |
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Three years later, Dulles Airport:
