Author Topic: LIVE: Enterprise Ferry on SCA from Dulles to New York City - April 27, 2012 (Read 175255 times)

Chris Bergin · « **on:** 04/27/2012 12:00 pm »

Live coverage thread for Enterprise's final journey from Dulles airport to New York City.

Previous and continuing general thread leading up to today's events:
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=20866.0

NEW FEATURE ARTICLE:
Space Shuttle Enterprise – The Orbiter that started it all - by Chris Gebhardt:
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2012/04/space-shuttle-enterprise-the-orbiter-that-started-it-all/

Main Articles:

http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2010/03/enterprise-good-condition-potential-sca-ferry-smithsonian/

http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2010/06/inspections-enterprise-better-than-expected-condition/

http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2012/02/enterprise-lead-shuttle-fleets-final-journey-resting-places/

http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2012/06/enterprise-taken-final-voyage-her-nyc-resting-place/

L2 Resources:
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?action=tags&tags=Enterprise

Ronsmytheiii · « **Reply #1 on:** 04/27/2012 12:05 pm »

Dulles radio feed:

http://www.liveatc.net/search/?icao=IAD

New York

http://www.liveatc.net/search/?icao=JFK

And dont bother with flight aware, as it will be under a military flightplan.

Ronsmytheiii · « **Reply #2 on:** 04/27/2012 12:21 pm »

CNN has a live stream

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/cvplive/cvpstream2

Alpha Control · « **Reply #3 on:** 04/27/2012 12:30 pm »

Thanks Ron. I haven't used liveatc.net before. So far I hear runway 30 being used for some takeoffs, which is the angled runway heading in a northwestly direction. Hope to hear some other runway use before I leave home to drive out there.

David

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #4 on:** 04/27/2012 12:33 pm »

NASA KSC:
After weather briefing this morning, NASA managers gave a “go” for ferry flight of shuttle Enterprise from Washington Dulles to JFK Airport

Ronsmytheiii · « **Reply #5 on:** 04/27/2012 12:40 pm »

Quote from: Chris Bergin on 04/27/2012 12:33 pm

NASA KSC:
After weather briefing this morning, NASA managers gave a “go” for ferry flight of shuttle Enterprise from Washington Dulles to JFK Airport

Good, and I see that the CNN crew have set up on the Daily parking garage 2 where I took pictures of the sling and Discovery before:

ChrisC · « **Reply #6 on:** 04/27/2012 12:41 pm »

Quote from: Ronsmytheiii on 04/27/2012 12:21 pm

CNN has a live stream
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/cvplive/cvpstream2

As I said in the general thread, you can watch regular CNN as well, but A) it will have reporter commentary in the audio, which can be painful to listen to for a number of reasons, and B) they will cut away to other stories from time to time, not to mention commercials.

This live stream should be devoid of commentary and should stay on this event. I'm told they have multiple camera feeds in Washington and New York so they should have great coverage.

This is live feed #2, and it should stay there, but if it stops working for you, try going to http://live.cnn.com to see if they moved the feed (e.g. to #1).

EDIT: well, so much for that. It looks like they will sometimes use the feeds for reporter shots (that's fair, right?) and when they set those shots up they will switch to slate ("stream starts soon"). So during those periods, switch to watching CNN itself, or just wait a bit until their setup work is done.

Alpha Control · « **Reply #7 on:** 04/27/2012 12:45 pm »

On Liveatc.net I'm also hearing runway 1C being used for incoming planes.
So takeoffs and landings are all using the north or northwest departures.

This means that takeoff viewing of Enterprise will be best to the north of the airport.

Ronsmytheiii · « **Reply #8 on:** 04/27/2012 12:46 pm »

ladder truck has moved away, so flight crew must be on board

Ronsmytheiii · « **Reply #9 on:** 04/27/2012 12:56 pm »

cnn stream has cut off, as someone's head was in the way

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #10 on:** 04/27/2012 12:57 pm »

NTV may be heading towards coverage, playing the epic "We are the explorers" video at the moment.

Edit: Video file next.

Alpha Control · « **Reply #11 on:** 04/27/2012 12:58 pm »

Are we still looking at a 9:30am departure?

Ronsmytheiii · « **Reply #12 on:** 04/27/2012 01:05 pm »

Quote

The 747 with Enterprise will taxi to Dulles Runway 30 for departure to the West, then turn out to the North

https://twitter.com/#!/dcairports

Edit: MWAA confirming the SCA engines have started spooling up

Ronsmytheiii · « **Reply #13 on:** 04/27/2012 01:09 pm »

For those going to Dulles, runway 30 favors going to daily parking 2 structure.

Ronsmytheiii · « **Reply #14 on:** 04/27/2012 01:13 pm »

Beginning to taxi:

https://twitter.com/#!/dcairports

Ronsmytheiii · « **Reply #15 on:** 04/27/2012 01:14 pm »

Tower at Dulles telling aircraft to watch for the shuttle taxi ing

Ronsmytheiii · « **Reply #16 on:** 04/27/2012 01:19 pm »

CNN live again, waiting on apron W

gregzsidisin · « **Reply #17 on:** 04/27/2012 01:19 pm »

Watching Internet for takeoff announcement. http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/livenow?id=8637251 has live feed (no narration, just voices and wind in background). Nothing on CNN live yet.

After all my nostalgic discussion of NYC viewing spots (http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=20866.270), my plan at the moment is to keep an eye peeled on the Internet, walk onto my balcony here in the Dulles area just after takeoff, snap a pic or two.

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #18 on:** 04/27/2012 01:21 pm »

NASA TV only showing Soyuz replays and such! Good work Ron with the captures.

Ronsmytheiii · « **Reply #19 on:** 04/27/2012 01:24 pm »

taxiing