Parabellum: Comments

It's a sign on a post. Stick a pushpin in and rotate through the points of the compass.

Either that or the guy is walking very, very slowly...

What I wanna know is why is there a sign out there in the middle of nowhere and what does it say?

That's an Air National Guard unit based at Pittsburgh International Airport.

Lacrosse. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacrosse

They look like Bradleys to me: http://www.inetres.com/gp/military/cv/inf/M2.html

It's a shame that they tore down the beautiful Art Deco office building.

http://www.supermarine-spitfire.co.uk/memories.html

Looks like some sort of test rig. Note how they've got the wing propped up.

And they only poured concrete for half a plane.

Here's the Bridge of Forss site: http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=58.604153~-3.688445&style=h&lvl=15

Aha!

"Incidentally, on either side of the town of Thurso, you can find the sites of two former US Naval Communications Stations (NAVCOMMSTA) at Forss (beyond the country hotel at Bridge of Forss) and at West Murkle, on top of Clardon Hill.

From the 1960s and 1970s, the sites provided key command and control signals for warships patrolling the North East Atlantic. They were only closed in the 1990s when the communications systems were changed. The old Forss base is...

There's another X to the South, and they both look like they were cut and filled to level the grade. The southern arms appear to be cut and the northern arms appear to be fill.

Former antenna mast sites?

There's a secure compound to the west too.

That's it: http://www.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=50+53+40+N/01+22+59W&ie=UTF8&z=15&ll=50.894453,-1.383076&spn=0.0157,0.048409&t=k&om=1

From: http://daveg4otu.tripod.com/airfields/woo.html#

Fitz, I think you found the Supermarine factory (or what's left of it): http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&c2coff=1&q=woolston+supermarine+spitfire+mitchell+close&btnG=Search

Appears to be the Johan Willem Friso Kazerne, a military base.

Here's a little article on Long Island aviation history: http://www.newsday.com/community/guide/lihistory/ny-history-hs736a,0,7813062.story

This was Republic's plant/airport and Grumman was down the road at Bethpage.

I'll take a WAG: Small SAM sites.

If you zoom out you'll see the comment/label moves around a bit. It doesn't stay over that particular building, so I'm not sure where exactly it's supposed to be.

There's been a lot of development in that part of London over the past few years. I suspect a cartographer is making an editorial comment on the new architecture of the area.

Thanks Fitz. I try to be pretty particular with my submissions.

Thanks Dunn. Let's see if we can find a shot of the chopper towing the minesweeping sled.

My guess is that they are stacks of roofing tiles that have not been applied yet.

They're spread evenly around the roof, even on the North side, where you'd never place solar panels.

Plane in the garage/hangar is a Mooney. I'm jealous.

There are a couple of planes in flight at this airport too.

Graduation Ceremony: http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=pjz1s8566pyq&style=o&lvl=2&scene=6729318

Thanks Anon. Very cool stuff.

Check out the beach. It looks like they're practicing their minesweeping with MK-105's.

http://www.members.aol.com/helmineron/mk-105.htm

That's a beauty, dda.

"When fast moving objects shit position..."

Say what? {8^)

Great first map, nicolor.

Taxiway. He's waiting for 27L.

http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=qnb90z8qx3c3&style=o&lvl=1&scene=2012999

Thanks for the wiki link, j. I always thought his last name was Slackjawedyokel. { ;^)

Good marketing move on Audi's part to 'supersize' the TT. It should sell well here in North America. { ;^)

Does it come in a Quattro convertible model?

Another brilliant Kelly Johnson design, the F-104. AKA the "missile with a man in it". Not a lot of wing area on those jets.

http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/airdef/f-104.htm

Talon in white, Thunderchief in camo and a Voodoo in natural.

Somebody at Lackland has really been hoarding up the old warbirds!

Doesn't look like an F-117 or HAVE BLUE to me. The nose and canopy aren't quite right.

It sure is small. Probably leftover buildings from the old airfield. Infact, the white hangar is missing it's back wall. It's also not inside the fence (BEV).

I doubt it's an underground facility. They're pretty close to the water table there. There's also not much parking.

Woah!

Thanks guys. That's a rare bird indeed, but I have to admit I just stumbled onto it.

Lots of other nice planes nearby...

http://aeroweb.brooklyn.cuny.edu/database/aircraft/getimage.htm?id=1225

Piaggio P.180 Avanti

Well, it's certainly a wing, but if you look just behind it in the shadow of the tower you'll see a fuselage sans wings.

Woah! I think Northwest owes you a few frequent flier miles for that one!

Same plane here? http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=qhvsv88k224r&style=o&lvl=2&scene=6316160

How about a category for UAVs?

Here's a shot of Albert flying in formation with the Angels:

http://www.strategypage.com/gallery/articles/military_photos_20069132337392.asp

Aero Vodochody L-39 Albatros?

http://www.l39.com/photos.html

Looks like that guy's trying to corner the market on 'slightly used' Mowhawks.

Nice!

It might be a SAAB Drakken.

http://images.google.com/images?q=saab+drakken&hl=en

I vote DC-6.

http://www.flightoftheresolution.org/graphics/DC6%20Line%20Drawing.gif

C-17 Globemaster III

http://www.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet_media.asp?fsID=86

They're doubly (triply?) amazing when you consider that Kelly Johnson and the Skunk Works boys flew the first A-11 in 1962!

Oh, all those hours I wasted looking for her in Texas...

Nice little slice of history there, Fitz.

Pdunn, King of the Magisters!

I'll second that motion. Thumbs up, Pdunn!

It looks like old weapons storage bunkers, probably for Belle Chasse NAS.

Looks like "The Condor Squadron".

http://www.lawa.org/vny/vnyAFPhoto.cfm?process=2
http://digital-library.csun.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/ValleyHistory&CISOPTR=1966&REC=17

I don't think that's a 'Stang. The tail is not the right shape.

http://www.fortunecity.com/marina/manatee/272/mustang.gif

I'll guess that that's just the center section of a B-36 wing.

http://www.b-36peacemakermuseum.org/index.htm

No, you're correct. It used to be a military trainer, but it's almost certainly privately owned now. The FAA database shows five Magisters registered in Texas.

http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/mmsinqSQL.asp?mmstxt=056129S&statetxt=TX

I can't see the N Number on this one though.

The length of the wing and the close engine spacing were the tip offs for me.

I was doing Google Image searches on "PBY Catalina" while you were finding the fuselage. {8^)

I wonder where it's wing could be? { ;^)

Fouga Magister?

http://images.google.com/images?q=Fouga+Magister+&ndsp=20&svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&safe=off&start=0&sa=N

Looks like a PBY Catalina wing to me.

http://wmilitary.neurok.ru/wwii/pby-d.gif

Looks like the Grand Opening was today, Aug 26, 2006.

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/26/iran.nuclear.reut/

Most likely glass greenhouses.

T-28 Trojan

http://members.tripod.com/Airfields_freeman/DC/Airfields_DC.htm

Scroll down about halfway.

LeTourneau, Inc.

http://www.letourneau-inc.com/pdf/LTmap.pdf

Wow, nice catch.

"The Royal Palace 'Huis ten Bosch' (literally "House in the forest")' is one of many palaces in The Hague. It was build in the 1640's for princes Amalia, wife of Prince Frederik Hendrik of Orange. It has not always been the residence of the Orange family, but our current queen, Beatrix of Orange, lives in this palace since 1980."

http://home.tiscali.nl/aarde01/bospaleis.htm

I'm gonna say fireboat, since what appears to be jets of water are coming from the bow of the boat. If they were nets they'd probably haul then onto the stern of the boat. More room to work back there.

Those are actually it's air brakes/ailerons. The flaps are more inboard on the wings.

That's a Stearman. They really are neat planes.

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/Images/ISS013-E-19323_lrg.jpg

"The largest airport in Texas, Dallas-Fort Worth International (DFW) is also the fourth largest in the world, and it occupies more surface area than the entire island of Manhattan in New York."

Nice catch. There's an airplane in flight south of runway 8 too.

Wind breaks?

Webcam here: http://www.avo.alaska.edu/webcam/webcam.php?cam=Augustine%20-%20island

Eight rotor blades? It must be a MIL MI-26.

That works for me. Anyone else?

I think I know what's happening (though I have no clue as to how to fix it.

When I click the link I can see the plane in flight. When I switch from BE to aerial then back to BE it defaults to North. The plane is only visible looking West in BE.

Soon to be home to the world's largets camera:

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2006/06/14/1632281-ap.html

For a while, anyway.

They're trying to take it down and restore it, but are having some problems.

http://www.nj.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/news-7/1150174339274670.xml

High res "after" photo here: http://www.defendamerica.mil/images/photos/june2006/index/High-Res/22938.jpg

No need for the question mark, that is indeed a B-52.

Here's a pic of that very plane: http://www.whoa.org/faculty/hawkins/b52lr.jpg

An Iraqi blogger says it was near the village of Hibhib.

http://iraqthemodel.blogspot.com/uploaded_images/3-761348.JPG

http://iraqthemodel.blogspot.com/2006/06/zarqawi-killed.html

Here's a slightly different view: http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=qg05kn8kt5xp&style=o&lvl=2&scene=1192798

They look like ocilloscope traces.

It was a CSHQ listening post during the cold war. Supposedly no longer in use.

http://worldwar2airfields.fotopic.net/p6715428.html

Great find. It's VG's first Focke-Wulf.

How about an FW-190?

In the US we call these a 'traveling gun irrigator'. The gun is just a giant impact sprinkler that rotates like a smaller impact sprinkler, but it also moves across the field (see the tracks?) either pulled by a cable or it may be self propelled by a water turbine. A large hose on a reel supplies the water.

I saw a lot of these when I was in France a few years ago. They're ideal for watering small to medium fields, and they can be moved from field to field as needed.

DeHavilland Vampire maybe?

http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/images/vampire_3view_500.gif

Looks like helicopter autorotation practice landing strips.

Nice catch!

Looks like an F-80, an F-102, and an F-86 to me.

Here's a Continental 747: http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=52.366831~0.475948&style=h&lvl=18

Well, Memorial day weekend seems like an appropriate time.

Cessna in flight: http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=sq213ph0gjg9&style=o&lvl=2&scene=4260069

I'm not usually a fan of 'Big Public Art', but a gigantic pink stuffed bunny is way cool. {8^)

http://www.girodivite.it/Avvistato-sulle-Alpi-gigantesco.html

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=Coniglio+Rosa

I guess he'll have to spend the rest of his life as a...

Ok, I won't spoil the ending for anyone who hasn't read that particularly fine piece of literature.

{ ;^)

Very cool. V.G.'s first Bear!

Urban training facade here: http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=39.038712~-76.848125&style=o&lvl=2&scene=825960

Hink, I checked out the photos at the More Info link, and all I can say is that that plane really looks French.

An old joke:
Heaven: French cooks, English police, German engineers, Italian lovers, Swiss bankers

Hell: English cooks, German police, French engineers, Swiss lovers, Italian bankers

I read about that expedition in Smithsonian's Air and Space magazine a while back. Unfortunately it's not available on their website.

"Iced Lightning

by Karen Jensen
Will the effort to unearth a P-38 from 264 feet of Greenland ice ever pay off?"

That hot water tunneling mole was pretty ingenious.

No kidding?

I figured this place was a restaurant, and if I had been smart enough to type "restaurant" into the business search box I would have found it quite easily.

Doh! ~(_8^(|)

Very cool, thank you.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000E8QVWY/