Awesome google earth pic

I found this pic outside of Manhattan Island. Its an aircraft carrier docked next to a destroyer and a submarine. Look on the deck of the carrier, and you will see various reconnissance planes - and - an SR71, which I thought was no longer in use. Maybe im wrong and its another jet - but its remarkably similar to the Blackbird. Look towards the east end of the carrier and you will also see a PINK jet. WTF! Below are the coordinates and the pics. Why would a jet be pink, and why have a SR-71 onboard? Just curious - I know many of you ATS folks are more or less experts on this, so any info would be appreciated.

Google Earth Coordinates: 40°45'53.38N 74°00'03.09"W

It's a museum, forgot the name right now, but there is alot of info on here about the condition of the SR-71 and how it's being corroded by the air.

That is the USS Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum, and it's an A-12 not a SR-71
www.intrepidmuseum.org...

That would be the Intrepid Sea, Air, and Space Museum . The aircraft is the first production A-12.

Not sure about the pink jet, though

Beat you to it ;-)

Pink Jet.... Chuck Yeager's Bell X-1 was pinkish.. maybe it was on display there when the photo was taken?

The "pink" jet is the F-14 Tomcat. It looks to have a white paint scheme with red trim, which must look pink to the sat.

Awesome info guys - I knew it wasnt coincidence that it was out in the open like that. Thanks for the quick answers.

yea lol thats nothing special at all.

you should have done 30 second of research, you could have found that

Originally posted by eaglewingz
That would be the Intrepid Sea, Air, and Space Museum . The aircraft is the first production A-12.

Not sure about the pink jet, though

that A12 is known as article 122

www.abovetopsecret.com...


www.klastv.com...

They had the U2 spyplane there when i visited, was interesting.