The Staten Island Advance has video of a two-deck helicopter being placed on the U.S.S. Intrepid's flight deck. The Sikorsky helicopter, dating back to 1949, is the kind of helicopter once used on the aircraft carrier; it "holds two co-pilots in the upper cockpit and 10 crew members in the hold below." The Intrepid, which has been undergoing repairs (first in Bayonne, NJ and now in Staten Island), will be headed back to Manhattan on......

Photos via avishaiweiss's flickr and NYC Aviation. The supersonic Concorde jet that spent 30 years flying fiercely through the skies went unharmed until retiring in Brooklyn, where the president of the foundation that operates the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, Bill White, was charged with overseeing its care. After just two years in the borough, The NY Times reports it got it's signature needle-shaped nose taken off by a truck.A Concorde that is......

The USS Intrepid is towed past the Statue of Liberty by MrMet388 at flickr It's Fleet Week in NYC, but the city's hometown aircraft carrier Intrepid is having trouble finding its way home. The Intrepid is still in the harbor--docked at a shipyard in Staten Island as it undergoes renovations--but it's uncertain if the fabled craft will be able to make it back to its berth on Manhattan's West Side. The total cost of......