| Poster | Time | Map | Comment |
| Parabellum | 2007-03-11 13:45:03 | Tuna Point Lighthouse | The Lighthouse has just undergone a very nice restoration. The grounds are now open to the public. No interior access though. |
| Parabellum | 2007-03-11 12:53:49 | North American T-6A Texan at the Robert J Miller Airpark | Got an email reply from the airport manager:
"(T)he old world two aircraft you see on the Apron near the terminal is a T-6 Warbird that belongs to a Mr. Ott. He is the guy who comes... |
| Parabellum | 2007-03-11 08:20:40 | Rotary Rocket vertical assembly building | http://www.mojaveweblog.com/pages/061112-1.html |
| Parabellum | 2007-03-10 22:56:22 | Gray Butte Radar Cross Section Facility | "Nothing to see but the front gate. Way out in the middle of nowhere."
Which is exactly what General Atomics desires.
Thanks for making the effort. |
| Parabellum | 2007-03-10 21:49:23 | 2007-03-07 - FBI Agents Seize F-14 from Yanks Museum and I was there | Update here: http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_5387608
LOS ANGELES- A probe of illegal arms sales to Iran led... |
| Parabellum | 2007-02-28 19:01:34 | A-10 Landing | Amusing little video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg7os63-Qp0 |
| Parabellum | 2007-02-26 17:53:30 | Muscatatuck Urban Training Center (MUTC) | Military Operations on Urban Terrain [MOUT]
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/mout.htm |
| Parabellum | 2007-02-26 17:24:13 | Strange enclosed town | Wait, no the Cottages are closer to the beach
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| Parabellum | 2007-02-26 17:20:27 | Strange enclosed town | I'm still thinking Coast Guard Cottages.
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| Parabellum | 2007-02-26 16:58:07 | Strange enclosed town | Google Maps shows it as "Jury's Gap". A seawall around a low lying village perhaps?
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| Parabellum | 2007-02-25 20:26:38 | Waiting for the Tide; A Town with a Secret | Well, if Algore's right the sea will be flooding in any day now! |
| Parabellum | 2007-02-25 17:12:40 | Chinese Yak-52 at Oakland International | This might be it: ... |
| Parabellum | 2007-02-25 17:02:01 | Chinese Yak-52 at Oakland International | Yak 52 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakovlev_Yak-52
Are you sure about that N Number, Fitz? It's not coming up... |
| Parabellum | 2007-02-25 15:23:18 | Airplane over Tokyo | Great find. I can *almost* read the J-number on the wing. |
| Parabellum | 2007-02-25 15:19:39 | Airplane - Approaching Tokyo International Airport | Oh, I always wondered what those shadowy forms were.
I feel much better now. {8^0 |
| Parabellum | 2007-02-25 14:35:03 | Airplane - Approaching Tokyo International Airport | I did, but it's there in the shadow, so everything should be alright. {8^) |
| Parabellum | 2007-02-19 17:57:29 | 'Homage to Charlie Parker' by Mark di Suvero | OK, Di Suvero the overpaid welder is officially off my s#1T list. Anyone who pays tribute to Bird must be OK. |
| Parabellum | 2007-02-19 17:53:05 | Gjoa Haven 1903 | I'm going to apply for a job with the Nunavit Tourism Board. Sounds nice and quiet. {8^) |
| Parabellum | 2007-02-16 13:55:37 | Aviation Warehouse Inc. Boneyard | http://www.aviationwarehouse.net/index.html |
| Parabellum | 2007-02-16 13:12:56 | Unmanned Aerial Vehicles R&D airport | Airport For Sale: http://www.socalvacation.com/Airport%20for%20sale.html |
| Parabellum | 2007-02-15 18:16:43 | Interesting sculpture | That sculpture reminds me of something, but I can't quite put my finger on it. { ;^) |
| Parabellum | 2007-02-14 18:07:12 | Happy Valentines Day! | Aw, Fitz, that's awfully sweet of you. Here's one back, in BEV no less: ... |
| Parabellum | 2007-02-12 17:57:09 | Upside down airplane on a rotating rig (ESL Antenna Test Site) | Doh! (_8^(|) |
| Parabellum | 2007-02-12 16:47:38 | Upside down airplane on a rotating rig (ESL Antenna Test Site) | Was anyone around when you were there? |
| Parabellum | 2007-02-12 16:43:35 | Giant Transformer | D'ya think he could beat up a Muffler Man? {8^0 |
| Parabellum | 2007-02-12 16:04:33 | Batting Practice at Yankee Stadium | It's a beautiful day for a ball game. |
| Parabellum | 2007-02-10 16:49:50 | NASA WB-57 prepped for takeoff on Ellington Field | NASA's calling them WB-57s: http://jsc-aircraft-ops.jsc.nasa.gov/wb57/ellops.html |
| Parabellum | 2007-02-09 04:59:06 | North American T-6A Texan at the Robert J Miller Airpark | I thought that at first, but the Thunderbolt has distinctively elliptical wingtips. |
| Parabellum | 2007-02-08 18:38:19 | Strange Plane Impression in farmer's field | Yes, here in New Jersey we call them "ruts". {8^) |
| Parabellum | 2007-02-08 17:32:31 | North American T-6A Texan at the Robert J Miller Airpark | Looks like a radial engine to me. I'm thinking Skyraider.
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| Parabellum | 2007-02-07 18:30:12 | Beech C-45 | Great plane, the Twin Beech. One of many stars in the film 'It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World'.
From IMDB:
"Trivia: The billboard that the twin-engine Beechcraft flies through... |
| Parabellum | 2007-02-06 18:35:52 | Hewenden viaduct | Great light on the Google map. I just love the way you arranged for the sun to set in the west. { ;^) |
| Parabellum | 2007-02-05 19:16:44 | NY-25L Nike missile site | Yeah, it's an Army reserve center. I remember when my old man was in the reserves his center was an old Nike site.
Did you watch the video? |
| Parabellum | 2007-02-05 17:00:10 | 'Caramba' by Mark di Suvero | Please remove the pushpin and flag form maps before submitting. b Just take the address out of the URL and replace it with "United+States" (no quotes). |
| Parabellum | 2007-02-05 16:47:11 | NY-25L Nike missile site | I think you're off a little bit here: ... |
| Parabellum | 2007-02-04 11:37:45 | Plane on Display | Avro C-91
http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=0694479 |
| Parabellum | 2007-02-03 18:18:33 | Lockheed SR-71 at Lackland Air Force Base | http://www.strategypage.com/military_photos/200712021825.aspx |
| Parabellum | 2007-02-03 18:05:26 | Flower Sign | I Googled 'Voorburg coat of arms'. |
| Parabellum | 2007-02-03 18:02:55 | Thule BMEWS radar site | Well, here's a slightly better view for ya: http://www.strategypage.com/military_photos/200712522329.aspx |
| Parabellum | 2007-02-03 17:35:45 | Flower Sign | http://home.planet.nl/~evers719/images/Wapen1.jpg |
| Parabellum | 2007-02-03 14:59:19 | Three EFA-2000 Eurofighters | http://www.strategypage.com/military_photos/200721232322.aspx |
| Parabellum | 2007-02-03 14:57:46 | Gamma | This is by kfitz from the Forums:
Here is a quick tutorial for getting the correct URLs for BEV. It looks complicated but is very quick and simple. Don't let the number of steps scare... |
| Parabellum | 2007-02-01 18:18:14 | Spitfire on Static Display At Southampton International Airport | Can you tell I love Spits? http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f6/Spitfire-Southampton.jpg |
| Parabellum | 2007-02-01 18:10:36 | Spitfire on Static Display At Southampton International Airport | http://www.flickr.com/photos/garthimage/71164519/ |
| Parabellum | 2007-02-01 17:35:25 | Spitfire on Static Display At Southampton International Airport | http://www.photographersdirect.com/buyers/stockphoto.asp?imageid=787791 |
| Parabellum | 2007-02-01 17:03:02 | Spitfire on Static Display At Southampton International Airport | One of my favorite Youtube videos features one of the last flying Spitfires: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh2W4C00FZ0... |
| Parabellum | 2007-02-01 16:03:12 | Richmond Naval Air Station (destroyed) | The LL thumbnail is one of the hangar door supports now used as a communications tower. |
| Parabellum | 2007-02-01 15:42:48 | Richmond Naval Air Station (destroyed) | http://www.airfields-freeman.com/FL/Airfields_FL_Miami_S.htm#richmond |
| Parabellum | 2007-02-01 15:25:20 | Marlboro racing team event at Miami Speedway | Probably Marlboro's racing school. |
| Parabellum | 2007-01-31 18:16:16 | Drag Race in progress | Yes, bracket racing isn't quite as spectacular as Top Fuel, is it?
I checked out Englishtown (Aaah Haa Haa Haa, Rrrraceway Park! Sunday! Sunday! Sunday! {only East Coasters will get... |
| Parabellum | 2007-01-31 17:11:44 | Airplane parts | What's up with all the partial aiplanes lately? Strange, huh? |
| Parabellum | 2007-01-31 17:10:26 | Fighter mock-up | Uncle 'Admiral' says it's a dud F-18 used for flight deck director training. |
| Parabellum | 2007-01-31 16:28:28 | Fighter mock-up | I just emailed this to my Uncle the career Naval Aviation Officer.
It's missing it's horizontal stabilizer too. |
| Parabellum | 2007-01-30 19:21:38 | Drag Race in progress | Darn it Dunn, I wanted to be the first to post a drag race in progress!
Congrats.
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| Parabellum | 2007-01-30 15:35:50 | Walt Disney's Private Plane | http://jimhillmedia.com/blogs/jim_korkis/archive/2003/08/27/1067.aspx |
| Parabellum | 2007-01-30 15:35:16 | Walt Disney's Private Plane | http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?regsearch=N234MM&distinct_entry=true |
| Parabellum | 2007-01-28 12:34:37 | Punta Perotti (Demolished April 2006) | http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4503848518825486700 |
| Parabellum | 2007-01-28 10:16:34 | RAF Thorpe Abbotts (closed) | http://www.airspacemag.com/issues/2007/february-march/mighty_eighth.php |
| Parabellum | 2007-01-27 15:21:13 | Lucent Near Holmdel | The water tower: ... |
| Parabellum | 2007-01-25 17:08:03 | Center of the universe according to Salvador Dali | Live Local Birds Eye Views is what I'm talkin about. Doh! ~(_8^(|)
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| Parabellum | 2007-01-25 17:02:15 | Center of the universe according to Salvador Dali | I'm not so sure that the Perpignan train station is the center of the universe, but trainspotters will love the fact that TGVs are visible in all four cardinal views. |
| Parabellum | 2007-01-25 16:53:12 | Kings of Majorca castle | http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/6750/perpig.html |
| Parabellum | 2007-01-25 16:22:41 | Secunderabad Railway Station | Muzi, please include "More Info URL"s when you submit maps. Finding this one only took me and Google about ten seconds, and they really can add a lot to the map.
Thanks. |
| Parabellum | 2007-01-25 15:26:50 | 'Roof Like a Liquid Flung Over the Plaza' by Vito Acconci | "Roof Like a Liquid Flung Over the Plaza" At the Cannon Performing Arts Center by Vito Acconci.
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| Parabellum | 2007-01-24 21:17:40 | Airbus 'Beluga' Taxiing | That's a whale of a catch. {8^) |
| Parabellum | 2007-01-24 18:01:19 | Italian amphibious carrier | Yes. The Dutch are partial to pixillating sensitive sites, while the Italians clone stamp forests and fields over theirs. |
| Parabellum | 2007-01-24 17:37:10 | A-12 Blackbird | How'd you like to live on 43rd Avenue North and see that every morning? |
| Parabellum | 2007-01-24 15:17:12 | Cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption | Beautiful. Love the flying buttresses. |
| Parabellum | 2007-01-23 19:25:06 | Green Sculpture | Jeez, a dumb old green plastic tarp? I thought it was some kind of artistic statement! Apparently the BEV cameras caught the giant skeleton pre-unveiling.
Here's a bad Babelfish... |
| Parabellum | 2007-01-23 15:29:24 | Green Sculpture | Whatever it is it's bizarre.
A Google Image search of "calamita cosmica" yeilds lots of photos of the giant skeleton, but none of it 'dressed up'. |
| Parabellum | 2007-01-20 10:27:51 | B-17G "Yankee Doodle II" | Reilly Aviation owns B-17G 44-85813 B-17. It's apparently inside now.
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| Parabellum | 2007-01-20 08:51:20 | USS Arizona Memorial | "The USS Arizona Dissolves Slowly Into the Sea"
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=2707972 |
| Parabellum | 2007-01-20 08:18:56 | "Virgin's Delight" Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress | You're doing a great job ID-ing these warbirds, dag. Keep up the good work! |
| Parabellum | 2007-01-15 18:00:26 | Sharp bank over Chino | The trees look like they've been pushed down with a bulldozer. Very strange |
| Parabellum | 2007-01-15 16:46:33 | Dream Flight (Western Airways) DC-3 | Very cool. http://www.vintageflight.com/ |
| Parabellum | 2007-01-14 17:57:14 | Airplane - JAL 747 (JA8076) on Approach to LAX | Phenomenal! You're on a roll today. |
| Parabellum | 2007-01-14 17:51:16 | 3 Savile Row. Beatles roof-top concert site. | Got a "More Info" link? |
| Parabellum | 2007-01-12 17:10:07 | As Luck Would Have It | Crystal Shamrock is (was?) an FBO there. They're no longer listed on AirNav and their website is down.
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| Parabellum | 2007-01-10 19:49:28 | Case Study House No. 22 | Some great photos here: http://www.usc.edu/dept/architecture/slide/koenig/008/008.html |
| Parabellum | 2007-01-10 18:58:51 | 'Sean John' music ad | Yo yo yo, homeskillet: http://www.seanjohn.com/ |
| Parabellum | 2007-01-10 17:24:15 | Navy Aircraft - Static Display | Greyhound, Seahawk, and Viking. |
| Parabellum | 2007-01-09 15:31:22 | Aroma | That map stinks. { ;^) |
| Parabellum | 2007-01-07 12:47:44 | NoTrespassing Unsafe For Landing | That's Gray Butte Airport, not Adelanto. |
| Parabellum | 2007-01-04 16:11:21 | Allied Forces Southern Europe (AFSOUTH) | Have you guys taken a look at this site in LL? It looks like a jungle just sprung up in the middle of Naples. |
| Parabellum | 2007-01-03 18:53:30 | Circular feedlot | Similar set up here: http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/13975/ |
| Parabellum | 2007-01-03 15:54:30 | Circular feedlot | Looks like a big circular feedlot to me. |
| Parabellum | 2007-01-03 15:50:16 | F-111 Aardvark | F-111
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/f-111.htm |
| Parabellum | 2007-01-02 17:21:32 | English Electric Canberra taking on fuel | Yes, second pic down. Beautiful paint scheme, don't you think? |
| Parabellum | 2007-01-02 17:06:01 | Italian jet on static display | Aermacchi MB-326 or 339?
http://web.tiscali.it/warbirds/warbirds/mb326_02.jpg |
| Parabellum | 2007-01-01 20:34:35 | English Electric Canberra taking on fuel | http://www.apvw.nl/ctry.htm |
| Parabellum | 2007-01-01 18:05:49 | Memorial 1885-1985 | The 100th anniversary of The Battle of Slivnitsa, I'm guessing. My Bulgarian is a little rusty. { ;^)
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| Parabellum | 2006-12-27 14:53:09 | Inhabited Island Vanishes Forever Underwater | See instead:
http://timblair.net/ee/index.php/weblog/island_erased/
... |
| Parabellum | 2006-12-24 09:23:33 | Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Test Rig | http://www.strategypage.com/military_photos/2006122405634.aspx |
| Parabellum | 2006-12-23 09:47:22 | Three Coast Guard Cutters | Ship in LL BEV is USCGC MORGENTHAU (WHEC- 722)
http://www.uscg.mil/pacarea/morgenthau/ |
| Parabellum | 2006-12-22 18:51:14 | NASA KC-135A "Weightless Wonder V" | AKA the "Vomit Comet".
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=15361 |
| Parabellum | 2006-12-22 15:24:55 | Teledyne-Ryan YQM-98A Compass Cope | A Proto-Predator |
| Parabellum | 2006-12-22 14:27:59 | B-36J Peacemaker being restored | http://www.b-36peacemakermuseum.org/index.htm
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| Parabellum | 2006-12-21 16:54:07 | Istrana-Treviso Air Force Base | Open the map in LL and zoom out a few levels, then zoom back in for some bellissimo photoshoppery.
The Italians are much more artistic at hiding their military sites than the Dutch are. |
| Parabellum | 2006-12-21 13:49:41 | Southwest Airlines 'Shamu' in flight | Took a couple of tries, but I got it. Nice Shamu jet catch.
http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/24335/ |
| Parabellum | 2006-12-20 17:02:29 | 1° Army Aviation Support Regiment | Take a look at this site in LL. As you zoom in from level 13 to 14 a thick forest 'magically' appears. |
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