I don't think it's in use anymore, when I saw it from the air, it was much more "worse for wear" than even in these two pictures. Thanks for tracking that down!
I saw this from the air while flying out of Sacramento this morning. It's clearly an abandoned dirt track, there are some paved roads and evidence of buildings and parking that are no longer there. I could find nothing "on-line" about it, though.
There is an interesting looking tower right next to this jet. Water? Observation? Looks to be made of brick. You can see it in some of the User Photos.
Originally the fourth tallest building in New York, 20 Exchange was built in 1930-31 as the headquarters for National City Bank of NY and the Farmer’s Loan and Trust Company, a predecessor of CitiGroup. Though it today consists of office space and luxury apartments, the original marble bank still exists (now vacant), and has been featured in dozens of film shoots, most notably, Inside Man.
Interestingly, in Bing Maps, this island has completely disappeared. A testament to the absolute craptastic subquality of the Bing Maps offings. Since there is not a paying business like maybe a McDonald's on Destruction Island, Bing has no interest in it.
Is that what it is really call? I know it's politically incorrect for me to say this, but I find that simply staggeringly hilarious. In the United States, there would certainly be stadiums full of "outraged" people bursting blood vessels in their foreheads over such a name.
When I was a chef at the Seattle Sheraton, Mr. Doohan would come in all the time. Boy was he a cranky and hard to please old man! But being a Star Trek fan, it was non-the-less always an honor to make food for such a star...
I wonder what the large complex across the road is? Looks like Saddam Hussein era that doesn't get much use these days... Seems to have a security fence with occasional guard houses...
Snicker... It looks like a giant single-wide mobile home... And that's all I'm going to say, except I voted for Bill Clinton, and would do so again (me being a card carrying Bleeding Heart Liberal). But good grief, a giant single-wide?
I know it's probably not the same street, but... In "Foxy Brown", the Sam Jackson character and the Robert De Niro character are sitting in the VW bus on a street VERY MUCH like this one, when Jacson blows him away... Could be the same street...
This area is "200 West" and "200 East". The main function of the facilities in the 200 Area of Hanford was to remove the plutonium from the uranium fuel rods after they had been subjected to the nuclear chain reaction in the 100 Area reactors. Five massive processing facilities called “canyons” were where these activities took place. They were called canyons because each of them is about three football fields long, with walls extending sixty feet above the ground and dropping another...
Very much so. Few of us could have done these things even if we had wanted to. An amazing show about an amazing man.
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I think the discussion you mention about it being a UAV site is quite interesting indeed! If you look around the area, there are a number of "interesting" air strips. My guess there is a lot of that going on out in the Navada desert...
Yucca Airstrip Airport covers an area of 41 acres (17 ha) and has two runways, one located on the salt flat and a shorter, more recently constructed asphalt runway just east of the salt flat
Runway 01/19: 4,990 x 75 ft (1,521 x 23 m), surface: Asphalt
Runway 14/32: 9,000 x 200 ft (2,743 x 61 m), surface: Salt
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My sister had one of these. Power everything, leather everything (real cow, not Corinthian leather which of course is not an animal product). It's difficult to imagine how big one of these things is unless you actually see one. The reason there is rubber on all four corners is that you simply can't see them and will almost certainly bump into things. These cars are so big, they simply don't fit into parking spaces of today. According to Wikipedia, these things are 231 inches, that's 19 feet!...
Last time I checked, the cargo hold of an AN-124 is un-pressurized, I suppose this solved a number of design / maintenance issues, but I'm sure that's really inconvenient for the loadmaster. There is a ceiling mounted wench / crane that runs the center-line.
Of course there is a specially designed sub-zero temperature refrigerator for the storage of a case of quality vodka and assorted accouterments.
Not the location I would expect to find a government lab. Sort of creepy... Like maybe the nuclear aircraft thing is a "cover" (where is the runway?) and really they were doing research into man-ape fighting zombies? I find the fighting zombie idea much more believable at this fairly remote location!
I walk by this memorial every day, and should have some pictures up this week. It's a very nice scale model of a C-141. The 141's had a very "old pick-up truck" feel to them compared to the C-17 that replaced them. Near the end of their life, most longer trips required an FCC (flying crew chief) mechanic to make sure we didn't break down someplace. The memorial is a daily reminder that in flying, when things go wrong they often end very very badly, and that "situational awareness" will save...
I hadn't thought about that, Horsey, but it probably *is* clamming. The French are bananas for clams, oysters, and mussels - the famous Coquille St Jacques...
And now it's completely surrounded by suburbia! I was expecting to see a museum when I zoomed out in map view... Nope, just scads of houses on postage stamp lots...
The Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum is an art museum located on the University of Minnesota campus in Minneapolis. A teaching museum for the university since 1934, the museum is named for Frederick R. Weisman, and was designed by the renowned architect Frank Gehry. Often called a "modern art museum," the 20,000+ image collection has...
At Westfield High School, Charles became the art editor for the Weather Vane and drew many cartoons. He graduated in 1929 and attended Colgate University for one year. He switched to the University of Pennsylvania and then studied at Grand Central School of Art in New York City. His dream was to work for The New Yorker Magazine and started submitting cartoons as early as 1935, his very first was entitled "I forgot my Skates." In 1940 he submitted "Downhill Skier" and that got him an offer to...
Sadly, this tomb is not open to the public. It looks to me like it is undergoing some long term restoration work that is for the most part "on hold". But you can peek through the fence.
With "Massacre of Erba" refers to a criminal episode occurred in Erba (Como), Lombardy, on 11 December 2006.
In the massacre, carried out the apartment of a renovated courtyard in the center of town, were killed with knives and iron bars Raffaella Castagna, her son Youssef Marzouk, the child's grandmother Paola Galli, and the neighbor Valeria Cherubini. Her husband Mario Frigerio, present on the site, you are saved because they...
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Located just outside Volterra, I've added a picture I took while staying in town a few years back...
- Jake
Originally the fourth tallest building in New York, 20 Exchange was built in 1930-31 as the headquarters for National City Bank of NY and the Farmer’s Loan and Trust Company, a predecessor of CitiGroup. Though it today consists of office space and luxury apartments, the original marble bank still exists (now vacant), and has been featured in dozens of film shoots, most notably, Inside Man.
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Recently renovated by the USA for the purpose of shipping prisoners from "Gitmo", also the location of Soviet-era mass graves.
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Yucca Airstrip Airport covers an area of 41 acres (17 ha) and has two runways, one located on the salt flat and a shorter, more recently constructed asphalt runway just east of the salt flat
Runway 01/19: 4,990 x 75 ft (1,521 x 23 m), surface: Asphalt
Runway 14/32: 9,000 x 200 ft (2,743 x 61 m), surface: Salt
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So actually it is mentioned. Yes, there is a great deal of...
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Of course there is a specially designed sub-zero temperature refrigerator for the storage of a case of quality vodka and assorted accouterments.
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There is an interesting circular construction.
Wonder what it is?
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Here it is, folks, the official web site:
http://www.integratron.com/Welcome.html
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The Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum is an art museum located on the University of Minnesota campus in Minneapolis. A teaching museum for the university since 1934, the museum is named for Frederick R. Weisman, and was designed by the renowned architect Frank Gehry. Often called a "modern art museum," the 20,000+ image collection has...
With "Massacre of Erba" refers to a criminal episode occurred in Erba (Como), Lombardy, on 11 December 2006.
In the massacre, carried out the apartment of a renovated courtyard in the center of town, were killed with knives and iron bars Raffaella Castagna, her son Youssef Marzouk, the child's grandmother Paola Galli, and the neighbor Valeria Cherubini. Her husband Mario Frigerio, present on the site, you are saved because they...
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