VirtualGlobetrotting: Maps Submitted On: 2005-05-13

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Grumman-Bethpage Airport (abandoned)
charlene (VirtualGlobetrotting)
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This is the site of the former Grumman-Bethpage Airport, the test facility for Grumman Aerospace in the Cold War era. It was abandoned in the early 1990s and is now the site of a Home Depot, although part of the 5400 foot runway still remains.
Interestingly, the resolution at which the images of this abandoned airfield (and other airfields in the Long Island area) is rendered at is far lower than that of the surrounding area. One wonders why.

Loop 101 and Highway 51
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Mitchel AFB, Long Island (abandoned)
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By: charlene.
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Mitchel AFB was first established in 1917 as the glamourously named "Aviation Field No. 2". It soon was renamed Mitchel Field and became the base of New York City's air defence during the wars. After World War II, Mitchel AFB was also used as a test field by various manufacturers of defence aviation equipment.
In April 1961 flying was halted and the unit reassigned to McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey. With the reassignment of the 514th, Mitchel AFB was subsequently closed on 25 June 1961. The property was turned over to Nassau County.
The former base is home to Hofstra University, Nassau Community College, and Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum. The main runway, however, can still be seen in the northeast and southwest corner of this image.

Interstate 17 and loop 101
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By: dwfarmer.

Winslow, AZ
dwfarmer (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: dwfarmer.
Town in the Eagles song "Take it Easy" -"Standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona..."

Roosevelt Field (abandoned)
charlene (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: charlene.
Charles Lindbergh's historic solo flight across the Atlantic began at Roosevelt Field on Long Island. The field closed in 1951 and was redeveloped as a shopping mall in the 70s. Although it is labeled on Google Maps as "Roosevelt Field", not one trace of the airport architecture remains.

AZ State Prison and Florence
Just above the triangle shaped green field to the east of the town

Water Feature
wil9000 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: wil9000.
Unusual water feature near Brandon, Manitoba, Canada. No idea what it is. Pretty, though.

Casa Grande Military Reservation

Florence Military Reservation

Estrella Jail

Pfizer Headquarters
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SP Crater
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Oxbow lake
wil9000 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: wil9000.
Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, Canada, is built around and on an old oxbow lake.

Tucson Mall

Poppy Reserve
wil9000 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: wil9000.
Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve near Lancaster, CA

Picacho Reservoir-Dry

Louisiana Trailer Park
Trailer Park in Louisiana. The kind of place that Brittany Spears came from. Makes ya think, don't it?

Fairford dam
Dam and Fish Ladder near Neepawa, Manitoba, Canada

Loops 202 & AZ highway 143

Interstate 10 and 8

Spare Wind Turbine Blades

Tucson Memorial Park

Hopi Buttes volcanic field

Durango Jail

Fred Enke Golf Course

Park Place Shopping Center

John C Lincoln Hospital

Airstrip
Crude private or emergency airstrip

Loops 202 & 101 overpass, south
The meet again about 10 miles north

Carondelet-St Mary's Hospital

Mesa Convention Center

Madison Street Jail

Interstate 10 and Interstate 19

Interstate 40 and Interstate 17

Mount Humphrey and San Francisco Peaks
At over 12,000 feet, it is the tallest point in Arizona.

Shadow Plane
jrohio (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: jrohio.
The shadow of a plane, but none in view.

University of Arizona Medical Center

Winslow–Lindbergh Regional Airport (INW)
AKA Winslow Municipal Airport

Winter North, Summer South
Severe weather transition is actually just the boundary between shots taken in different seasons.

Pima Community College Main Campus

Navajo Army Depot

Pima Community College

Interstate 10 and 101

Interstate 17 and 10