Photo Safari #59 - Test Facilities (Old School)

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Thursday, Jun 21 2012 by

This week for the first time we’ll be returning to VGT’s roots. Google Maps, Bird’s Eye View and Bing. Your mission is to hunt out scientific test facilities. I’m looking for “stuff.” You know, test equipment, towers infrastructure. An antenna by itself won’t count. I’m not looking for bombing ranges or targets or generic office park buildings. I want to see interesting infrastructure. There is a lot of it out there too.

Any of the mapping services is fine… SV, GM, BEV, Bing, YM. Posting the same site in SV and GM as two individual posts is fine. Post your finds to Street View – Safari Submission and Buildings – Scientific – Test Facility and include a More Info link (not waymarking or another mapping site) for credit. The safari ends at 0700 UTC on June 27.

Good luck and happy hunting!

Here are a few examples:

Trestle Electromagnetic Pulse Simulator (Birds Eye)
Trestle Electromagnetic Pulse Simulator

Star Wars missile defense support site (Birds Eye)
Star Wars missile defense support site
High Energy Laser Systems Test Facility (HELSTF) (Google Maps)
High Energy Laser Systems Test Facility (HELSTF)

Northrop Grumman low speed wind tunnel (Birds Eye)
Northrop Grumman low speed wind tunnel

Jet car test site (Google Maps)
Jet car test site

Nevada Test Site Icecap emplacement tower (Google Maps)
Nevada Test Site Icecap emplacement tower
EMP Testing Facility (Google Maps)
EMP Testing Facility

Giant Chemical Oxygen Iodine Laser (COIL) Test Facility in 747 fuselage (Google Maps)
Giant Chemical Oxygen Iodine Laser (COIL) Test Facility in 747 fuselage
Propulsion and Structural Test Facility (Birds Eye)
Propulsion and Structural Test Facility

L-3 Integrated Systems' Multi-Sensor Test Range (Bing Maps)
L-3 Integrated Systems' Multi-Sensor Test Range

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