Parabellum: Comments

Same plane here: http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=32.980861~-97.31601&style=o&lvl=2&scene=4100680

A little closer: http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=32.556194~-97.309536&style=o&lvl=1&scene=4209686

Same plane (I think) at Oceana: http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=36.816093~-76.031738&style=o&lvl=2&scene=2494497

More like misplaced. Too many windows open at the same time confuses Parabellum...

I've seen baseball diamonds on active RAF bases. They're usually the ones with lots of funny antennas and no active runways, if you get my drift.

Heh heh. Ya beat me by a minute, but my picture's purdier. {8^)

Nice catch, Dude.

Just a little to the west you can see the F-A-18s of an Agressor Squadron.

Dude, glaciers melt when they reach the sea. If they didn't we'd be in an ice age. This is totally normal and has nothing to do with "Global Warming".

Mods, may I suggest a less hysterical title please?

Interesting article here: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/01/world/americas/01insurgency.html?ex=1304136000&en=efef557db079aeac&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=

Is that a Fieseler Storch on the edge of the hardstand?

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Germany&t=k&om=0&ll=54.382321,10.144082&spn=0.000909,0.003026

WILLARD (v.o.)
"I was being ferried down the coast in a Navy PBR, a type of
plastic patrol boat, pretty common sight on the rivers. They
said it was a good way to pick up information without drawing lot
of attention. That was OK, I needed the air and the time.
Only problem was I wouldn't be alone."

CLEAN
"Morning captain."

WILLARD (v.o.)
"The crew was mostly just kids, rock and rollers...

Another photo here: http://www.strategypage.com/gallery/articles/military_photos_20064242222221622.asp

The fountain shut down: http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=28.599651~-81.2019&style=o&lvl=2&scene=3876068

Same jet just taking off here:

http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=37.618338~-122.373878&style=o&lvl=2&scene=1304041

More elegant than the Golden Gate bridge, and longer too!

http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=40.602602~-74.052858&style=o&lvl=1&scene=2158202

What's that institutional looking place to the east? Sat dishes, helipads, etc.

There's an observatory or something just north of your second instance.

I don't think these are simple satellite problems. Those sections of forest were selected, flipped and pasted back in. I think something is being disguised.

Or maybe I'm just paranoid. {8^0

Those are glass greenhouses.

Again: http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=33.793381~-118.048135&style=o&lvl=2&scene=169161

Same chopper? http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=33.793059~-118.04878&style=o&lvl=2&scene=245178

Same plane, a second earlier.

http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=33.813797~-118.141823&style=o&lvl=1&scene=1526685

Great catch, Hink.

Here's my favorite Colditz story: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colditz_Castle#The_.22Colditz_Cock.22_glider

Google Maps now shows ALL the birds home to roost.

http://maps.google.com/maps?t=k&hl=en&ll=36.091551,-115.16508&spn=0.001261,0.002004&om=1

Photos of a recent C5 crash: http://www.strategypage.com/gallery/articles/military_photos_20064112323234723.asp

Hink, you've never visited New Jersey, I take it. { ;^)

Hold on, here's one with squared wingtips: http://avia.russian.ee/air/england/britten_islander.html

Looks about right.

http://www.fortunecity.com/marina/manatee/272/islander.html

The horizontal stabilizer looks right, but what about the wingtips?

Helio Courier?

This map: http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/5170/ is just 36 kilometers away.

Aquaculture cages of some sort, maybe?

You know, it sure looks like all four sides would slide straight down as a unit, especially in the westward view.

I suspect the half-a-plane is a radar reflection test target. If that's so the walls would certainly have to be out of the way of the radar.

You're right, it is a Viking.

After a bit of work I found another view of it here: http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=32.775575~-97.431491&style=o&lvl=2&scene=4146383

Of course, if you reverse the sequence, they're UNloading a helicopter...

Coast Guard helo?

http://images.google.com/images?q=coast+guard+helicopter&hl=en

Gotta give credit to Mrs. Parabellum on this one. We were having a conversation and she glanced at my screen and said "What's that hand there?"

I said "I dunno, 'Madame Somethingorother's something'. "

She said "Oh, that's Madame Tussaud's wax museum!"

By golly she was right.

Do I spy a Gloster Meteor on static display?

Nice one, Fitz.

I wondered what the heck that was!

Well, the US military is farming lots of formerly military only stuff to private contractors. Look at Halliburton and KBR for example.

From http://www.omegaairrefueling.com/How_Tanker_Funded.htm

"The Omega tanker flying contract is administered by NAVAIRSYSCOM PMA 207.5. The tanker is funded for its flying hours through PMA 207.5 to support Navy and Marine Corps Aviation. Thus...

It's a C-130 for sure, but as far as I know all the Compass Call variants are based at Davis-Monthan.

Classic shape for a SAM site.

http://www.nawcwpns.navy.mil/~pacrange/s1/usrGuide/usrTgt/UsrTgt22.htm

Did someone say Jolly Green Giant?

http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=35.048167~-106.595857&style=h&lvl=19&scene=884595

That'd be a parasailer I'd bet. Soldiers from the 101st Airborne and other such paratroop outfits don't usually use pink chutes.

A little better than the world's largest stucco snowman, eh? { ;^)

That's it! Thanks Hink.

Yeah, the Blue Angels loved the Skyhawk. They were light and agile. Perfect for aerobatics. When they changed over to the big, heavy Phantom (by Navy edict) they weren't too happy.

http://www.nasm.si.edu/research/aero/aircraft/douglas_a4.htm

"Simplicate and add lightness" Ed Heinemann

Similar artifact here:

http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=39.940121~-74.845433&style=h&lvl=18

Yes, probably a 135. 137s were 707 based too, but it appears they were all VIP transport planes.

There are tons of variants, but NC-135A is certainly a good bet.

http://www.aerospaceweb.org/aircraft/transport-m/c135/

Note how some of them were rebuilt multiple times. We may be looking at a freshly rebuilt 707!

Yup, de-icing.

Gone in LiveLocal too.

Aha!

E-2 Hawkeye in the foreground, F-14 Tomcat middle, and an F-18 Hornet in the back.

OV-1 Mohawk.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/systems/ov-1.htm

Son of an Army pilot checking in. :^)

Any idea why all those Navy planes are on display at an Air Force base?

My Uncle the former E-2 squadron commander will get a chuckle out of it I'm sure.

Wow!

The Hunter is Serial Number XF314.

On the site of Blackpool aiport, FKA RAF Squires Gate.

Also, the large sawtooth roofed building to the east is a formers Vickers aircraft factory.

http://www.controltowers.co.uk/S/Squires_Gate.htm

I'd guess they're harvesting rather than plowing.

A sad shell of a Canberra: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&t=k&ll=51.521375,-2.588353&spn=0.000996,0.002004&t=k

Note the baseball field to the east. Methinks there may be a few Yanks based there.

On static display:
RC-4C Phantom II
F-84F Thunderstreak
F-86L Sabre
T-33A

Going, going...

That combine's about to wipe that circle out.

There's a Canberra (dark blue) just to the west of these planes.

I guess they travel in pairs.

http://googleglobetrotting.com/info.php/mid/14637

There's an F-86 down there too: http://maps.google.com/local?f=q&hl=en&t=k&ll=34.572309,-117.191371&spn=0.002633,0.004007&t=k

This must be the only aviation museum in England that *doesn't* have a Vulcan!

I'm posting *any* site that was *ever* an RAF base as "RAF Whateversite". Many are no longer active RAF bases, of course.

It's an effort on my part to chronicle the many RAF bases in the UK before they disappear. See RAF Hooton Park for a good example: http://googleglobetrotting.com/info.php/mid/14181

Formerly RAF Luton.

Photo update shows that they are indeed twin turboprops.

Also, Norwich Airport was formerly known as RAF Horsham St. Faith. http://www.controltowers.co.uk/H-K/Horsham_St_Faith.htm

That's a Hurricane on the left and a Spitfire on the right.

If you have a bunch of animals you want to keep separated, but you're a lazy farmer and you want to feed and water them from one *central* point, you might come up with a similar layout...

Here's Bircham Newton: http://www.google.com/local?hl=en&t=k&ll=52.876279,0.64991&spn=0.02989,0.059481&t=k

I believe this is actually RAF Sculthorpe.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&c2coff=1&q=tattersett+raf+sculthorpe

http://www.google.com/local?f=q&hl=en&q=tattersett+uk&ll=52.847571,0.777454&spn=0.02991,0.096817

My brother from Pennsylvania brought me a six pack of Iron City Beer just in time for the Super Bowl!

Go Steelers!

Ordnance Survey map shows that as "Brockman's Bushes".

UK Ordnance Survey maps have it marked "resr". I assume that means reservoir.

http://getamap.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/getamap/

Possibly RAF Thurleigh?

Great photo here: http://www.strategypage.com/gallery/articles/military_photos_2006240.asp

The new high res images are great. Anybody have any idea what the blue and green rectangle to the east of the hangars is?

MacDill's getting a new tower: http://www.strategypage.com/gallery/articles/military_photos_20061151.asp

More info: http://www.controltowers.co.uk/A/Attlebridge.htm

I think that may be one of those natural gas storage tanks that rises and falls according to gas demand.

And I give an extra bonus point for the grimly hilarious user name of 'dear_leader'.

Oops. I must have pasted in the wrong URL. Thanks Fitz.

If you look at the runways you can see the spots where we repaired JDAM craters we made earlier in the war.

First we busted it up so the Iraqi air force couldn't use it, then we fixed it up so we could use it.

Click "Hybrid" and you'll see the planes parked pre-Katrina.

More here: http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=53.662086,-2.745724&spn=0.003799,0.008164&t=h&hl=en

It appears to be a glass greenhouse range.

Don't forget Geno's! You'll upset half of the Delaware Valley!

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1219+S+9th+St,+Philadelphia,+PA+19147+(Geno's+Steaks)&spn=0.004978,0.008623&t=k&hl=en

The name of the town is "Don't move a hair?" Is there a story behind this?

I don't think they're fields. They wouldn't be so far apart, or so black

My guess is that they're oil storage ponds of some sort.

More info and an Ikonos sat photo here: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=16974

After looking at them with Google Earth I'm gonna say that they're probably NOT TR-1's.

Any ideas what type of plane they are?

More info here: http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/s23.html

More info here: http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/s19.html

And here: http://www.bernardmatthews.com/CompanyHistory50.asp

Great find, skithund. Gotta love those craters.