VirtualGlobetrotting: Maps Submitted On: 2005-05-12

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Trinity Atomic Test Site
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Location of first nuclear explosion on July 16, 1945 near San Antonio, New Mexico.

B-2 Bomber
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Palmdale is the home of Air Force Plant 42, site of Lockheed-Martin's
"Skunk Works" (Lockheed Advanced Development Co., on the west side of
Plant 42), Northrop-Grumman's final assembly plant for the B-2 Stealth
bomber, Rockwell, and other aerospace companies.

F-117 Stealth Fighter
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Palmdale is the home of Air Force Plant 42, site of Lockheed-Martin's
"Skunk Works" (Lockheed Advanced Development Co., on the west side of
Plant 42), Northrop-Grumman's final assembly plant for the B-2 Stealth
bomber, Rockwell, and other aerospace companies.

Trestle Electromagnetic Pulse Simulator
Kirtland Air Force Base.
The facility is the largest wood-and-glue laminated structure in the world. Aircraft tested here are subjected to up to 10 million volts of electricity to simulate the effects of a nuclear explosion and assess the "hardness" of electrical and electronic equipment to the EMP pulse generated by a nuclear burst.

Flushing Airport (abandoned)
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Flushing Airport opened in 1927 as Speed's Airport (named for part-owner Anthony "Speed" Hanzlick). For a time it was the busiest airport in New York. However, two factors combined to take business away. The first was the opening of the North Beach (soon renamed LaGuardia) airport only a few short miles away in 1937, which with its longer runways and more spacious terminal drew away commercial traffic. The second and more serious threat was from Mother Nature. Flushing Airport had been built on a swamp and the centre of its main runway was below sea level, which made drainage difficult if not impossible. However, Flushing Airport did see continuous use until the 1980s, when the neighbourhood's clamors for its shutdown were finally heard.
Part of the airport is now home to the physical plant of the New York Times, but the main runway, puddles and all, is still clearly visible in the satellite image.

Black Fox Nuclear Plant
The nuclear plant that never was. Southwest of Inola, Oklahoma.
Protestors shut down construction in 1980s.

Mojave Airport Bone Yard

Titan II Nucear Missle Silo
Little Rock AFB Missile Site #09

Whiteman AFB (B-2 Stealth Bomber Base)
Whiteman AFB housing the B-2 Bomber near Knob Noster, Missouri.

Helendale RCS Test Range
The Helendale Radar Cross Section Facility is an aircraft research facility developed and operated by the Lockheed Martin Corporation. It is a secretive test range developed at an old WWII training field, used to measure the radar reflectivity of stealth aircraft designs. There are assembly facilities located underneath the old runway, and prototypical forms tested outside on the range are mounted on hydraulic pylons that rise out of the ground through doors in the runway surface. The facility is one of at least three Radar Cross-Section facilities owned by the major aerospace companies and located in the Antelope Valley area. It is at facilities such as this where stealth technologies, like the F-117 and B-2, and Joint Strike Fighter are developed.

Tatooine in Star Wars IV
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Pelican Bay State Prison (PBSP)
Located on 275 acres in the northwest corner of California, Pelican Bay State Prison is designed to house the state's most serious criminal offenders in a secure, safe and disciplined institutional setting. The prison opened December 1989 to accommodate a need for a growing population of maximum-security inmates. PBSP has an approximate budget of $115 million and over 1400 employees.
One half of the prison houses maximum-security inmates in a General Population setting. The other half houses maximum-security inmates in the Security Housing Unit (SHU) designed for inmates presenting serious management concerns. The SHU is a modern design for inmates who are difficult management cases, prison gang members and violent maximum custody inmates. PBSP maintains a 296 bed Level I minimum support facility outside the security perimeter of the main institution. The institution also operates two unique programs: the Psychiatric Services Unit, which houses mentally ill inmates who are serving a SHU term, and the Transitional Housing Unit, which is an intensive program designed to reintegrate prison gang members back into a General Population setting.

Honda Proving Center of California
A field test complex, owned by the research and development division of the Honda Motor Company. Despite its large size, the complex strives to keep a low profile and is hard to see from public roads. Facilities include a 7.5-mile automotive track, assembly buildings, and test courses which model the types of roads found in North America.

F-117 Stealth Fighter Hangars
F-117 hangars at Holloman AFB near Alamogordo, New Mexico.

Concord Mills Mall
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Titan II missile site CE-1
Davis-Monthan AFB Missile Site #01 Arizona
On February 19 2003 this site went up for sale on eBay, item number 2309094117, with a starting bid of $25,000,000. The description was: "Privately owned USAF TITAN MISSILE SILO COMPLEX. Is available for sale in southern Arizona between Phoenix and Tucson. Command Center Silo has been excavated and consists of 3 shock aborbing suspended floors. Connecting security door leading to the missile silo has never been opened. Security door to the complex and command center are in full working order. It comes with two acres of surface ground. The Complex is easily accessed from State Highway." The price was later lowered to merely $2,000,000. At the end there were zero bids.

California Correctional Institution (CCI)
CCI originally opened in 1933. It was closed after an earthquake in 1952, and then reopened in 1954. The institution covers 1,650 acres.

Floyd Bennett Field (NOP)
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Floyd Bennett Field was the major airfield on the New York side of the Hudson before the Second World War, second only to Newark Airport in the amounts of takeoffs and landings. It was used as a naval air station during the war, and was the base for many long-range anti-submarine sorties. It's now the NYPD's heliport.

B-1 Bombers
Edwards Air Force Base
Two more just to the south. Used to be two here and none to the south until the June 9, 2006 db update.

South Texas Nuclear Project
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Nuclear plant located near Bay City Texas. Said to have the largest man-make lake

South Bass Island - Put-In-Bay
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South Bass Island/Lake Erie - north of Sandusky, Ohio

Chemical Agent Storage Yard (CASY)
The Chemical Demilitarization Training Facility (CDTF) is a five-building complex located at the Edgewood Area of Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland.

Rice University Campus
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www.rice.edu

National Museum of the United States Air Force
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Planes on display at the National Museum of the United States Air Force

E-3 AWACS Base
Tinker AFB housing the E-3 AWACS.

Kilauea
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Old Michigan Central Station
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Old Michigan Central Station, Detroit

Central Piedmont Community College - Central Campus
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There are 6 CPCC campuses.

University of North Carolina at Charlotte
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Pond