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Topic: Helipad at North American Rockwell plant
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LM-12
Member Posts: 3691
From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 09-19-2019 07:22 PM
  
Photo S69-53802 shows Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins during a post-flight visit to the North American Rockwell plant: On Sep. 26, Armstrong and Collins visited two North American Rockwell (NAR) Space Division facilities in California that built parts of the Saturn V rocket and Apollo 11 spacecraft. In the background can be seen a helicopter and helipad. There is a large Apollo 7 emblem on the helipad, and what looks like other large Apollo mission emblems there also. There is an earlier aerial shot of what might be the same helipad with just the Apollo 7 emblem on it. I could only find this low-res image. Are there other photos of the helipad? |
heng44
Member Posts: 3633
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 09-21-2019 05:15 AM
This was taken November 6, 1968, when two of the Apollo 7 crew returned to Downey. 
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LM-12
Member Posts: 3691
From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 09-21-2019 06:33 AM
The helicopter is in a different position in the Apollo 7 low-res image. Looks like the same type of helicopter in both the Apollo 11 and Apollo 7 photos.Donn Eisele missed the Apollo 7 event. Buzz Aldrin missed the Apollo 11 event.
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LM-12
Member Posts: 3691
From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 09-23-2019 07:29 AM
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Originally posted by LM-12:
The helicopter is in a different position in the Apollo 7 low-res image.
That same image is seen on the front page of this issue of the North American Rockwell "Skywriter" newsletter. The two men walking away from the helicopter are identified in the newsletter caption as Wally Schirra and Walt Cunningham. The helicopter is on the large mission emblem, not beside it. Maybe they moved the helicopter so the mission emblem could be clearly seen in the aerial photo that Ed posted. |
LM-12
Member Posts: 3691
From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 09-29-2019 08:28 AM
The Apollo 7 command module was returned to the North American Rockwell plant in Downey on October 28, 1968. |
LM-12
Member Posts: 3691
From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 10-30-2019 05:04 AM
Armstrong and Aldrin also arrived by helicopter for the Apollo 11 post-flight ceremony at the Grumman Aerospace Corporation plant on September 17, 1969. |
Philip
Member Posts: 6184
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 11-28-2022 04:48 AM
Heli is a single turbine Bell "Jet Ranger." |
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