The British Airways Concorde jet has returned home to New York City's Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum and will soon be lifted back onto the aircraft carrier. The supersonic jet could fly more than twice the speed of sound and holds the record for the fastest Transatlantic passenger flight in 1996 -- just two hours and 52 minutes from London's Heathrow Airport to John F. Kennedy International Airport.
The Concorde left Brooklyn's Navy Yard on Wednesday before docking in Jersey City for the night. It started making its way up the Hudson River early Thursday morning to Pier 86 on Manhattan's West Side. A 300-foot crane will now hoist it back into position on the Intrepid. The decommissioned jet traveled up the river on a 500-ton crane barge that is no stranger to the spotlight. The barge was once used to lift the USS Enterprise space shuttle onto the Intrepid, and it pulled Capt. Sully Sullenberger's 'Miracle on the Hudson' plane from the water in 2009
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