MK-105 Mine Sweepers (See dda's Sea Dragon)

Corpus Christi, Texas (TX), US

Parbellum gets the credit for this one. I thought it was worth posting as a complement dda's super Sea Dragon map.

MK-105 Mine Sweepers (See dda's Sea Dragon)

Corpus Christi, Texas (TX), US

Parbellum gets the credit for this one. I thought it was worth posting as a complement dda's super Sea Dragon map.

Sea - Misc, Helicopters - Parked
By: Pdunn

Nearby:

MH-53E Sea Dragon in flight

Giant Shells & sandcastle building front

RV Needlefish

Giant shark

JFK Causeway and Bridge

Bait flags

US Navy North American T-28 Trojan

US Navy Douglas TA-4 Skyhawk trainer

US Navy Beechcraft TC-12B Huron

'Fly Navy'

Helicopter blade test stand

US Customs Service P-3 AEW

Comments

Pdunn

@ 2006-10-15 12:25:38

Here the link to that map:
http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/24516/

Parabellum

@ 2006-10-15 17:18:08

Thanks Dunn. Let's see if we can find a shot of the chopper towing the minesweeping sled.

Pdunn

@ 2006-10-15 19:52:07

Now that would be cool.

It looks like our best chance to find one sweeping is find the missing sweeper in the "North" views. The south view shows a total of 4 sweepers, all oriented toward the water, which makes me think that was the Live Local aircraft's first pass, before the hookup with the Sea Dragon pictured in the North views. Either that, or the south view is the culmination of the excercise, after all the sweepers had been retrieved (assuming there were only four).

The east and west views were both taken long before or after the excercise took place, with none of the heavy equipment or scaring on the sand from the event visible.

Pdunn

@ 2006-10-15 20:05:06

Stay in the "north" view and come down the beach from the west and you run into this view:

http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=nm6wgm6x12vk&style=o&lvl=2&scene=3325995

Showing four sleds with two facing toward the water. Somewhere in this area, we should be able to find a second Sea Dragon, because one map farther, and there are only three sleds in the "north" view, with one connected to dda's Sea Dragon.