jbottero: Comments

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Is it a sat picture or an aerial picture spliced in?

Er, I mean "Qwest Field", as in Qwest Communications, the phone company...

Yup. We have "Quest Field" here in Seattle... Surprised it's not "Microsoft Field". Really makes ya think of baseball...

I'm told that it's actually known by "locals" as The Sandcastle...

It looks like the "tip" is actually off the ground...

I'm not sure it's military, though it might be. There are lots of things next to the airport. I think it might be water / gas because there are pipes that lead from the circles to the building.

Former NASA / Boeing facility:

http://www.downeystudios.com/downey/the_studio/

That's a runway, eh?

The description of the McChord Air Museum ( http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/6672/ ) says these birds are now located behind the museum. The C-141B and a C-124C where NEVER parked anywhere near the museum. They are currently located overlooking the runwau at:

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The description is incorrect. The C-141B and a C-124C where NEVER parked anywhere near the museum. They are currently located overlooking the runwau at:

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Tacoma,+WA&ie=UTF8&z=18&ll=47.132958,-122.481927&spn=0.002485,0.006738&t=k&om=1&iwloc=addr

Bails of cotton?

Is it an A-10?

I can't find the radar stuff, where's it at?

It's between New York and Jersey... Looks like they dump more than cars there, my guess is it's just an easy way to get rid of dead cars. Jersey is an arm pit.

These "communities" are generally land scams. People buy "ranchettes" sight unseen, and find out they are out in the middle of the desert with no water or power. Landauctions.com sells a lot of these...

It doesn't seem to be near an airport, wonder where they towed it from?

What’s odd to me is that the level of pixilation is so minor that I’m not sure what they are hiding. You can see the layout of the base, what kind and how many aircraft, the general purpose of the structures, that sort of thing. So what is it that they are hiding?

WADS is actually just the part of the building on the left. The part on the right houses the Com Squadron, the library, the education center, and some civilian personnel functions.

Maybe just a mock-up? The "real" one wouldn't be sitting out in a parking lot, I think.

This building is now a very sleazy stip club.

Some sort of launching device?

Evergreen Air, the CIA air line, has operations here.

By the way, Evergreen Air used to be the CIA airline, mostly during Viet Nam...

Are you sure? Is it bigger than the C-5 or the Russian cargo jets?

Fire fighting planes?

Follow the road down to the end of the cul-de-sac. On the left in the picture, on the roof, are those solar cells?

The 135's are no longer based at Portland.

Oh, their goin' home, alright. It's a feed lot. Next stop, the slaughter house!

Very interesting. Any additional info on this?

Theme restaurant?

There's the tail end of a C-141 there, too...

Is that Cletus Spuckler's place?

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

Isn't that the specially modified 707 that they can mount a test engine on the side of?

Same as http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/21755/ ?

But neither seem to be there anymore.

I get the impression that this whole set-up is part of the dog training facility. Makes sense that they want the dogs to be familure with air field operations.

I agree. The "bomb dump" next to it is a training facility.

There's no real activity around the helo, or even near-by. Also note the ladder at the rear, there is maintenance going on. Speculation: training set-up.

Up the road, across from the parade ground and large barracks building are a complex of diagonal buildings on the west side of Carswell and Selfridge, that at least when I drove by in 2004 indicated that the Air Force's contingent of the School of the Americas had space there.

The "stong arm" of The Law has a long reach!

Well, it's definatly not Have Blue, but it looks vaery much like an F-117 to me. And it is at the Skunk Works, so maybe it's an F-117 with experimental body mods...

You would think Johnny Cash would want to be burried someplace nice, instead of this "lawn cemetary" located between a shopping mall and a tacky housing develoment. Sad.

I'm wondering how this "jives" with the Fort Belvoir SM-1 Nuclear Reactor being the first nuclear power reactor in the U.S. to provide electricity to a commercial power grid? Seems to me both can't be true.

http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/13574/

Much of Detroit is like this. When people think of American "ghetto", The Bronx in NY often comes to mind, but that's history. Today, Detroit and East St. Louis both eclipse The Bronx by miles...

What's that off to the side at the 19 end? Are these gun emplacements?

Lot's of inerior pics here:

http://www.forgottendetroit.com/leeplaza/index.html

More pictures (lots of ineriors) of this ruin here:

http://www.forgottendetroit.com/fsh/index.html

Once the meeting hall of the Grand Army of the Republic, here's more info on this great building:

http://www.forgottendetroit.com/gar/index.html

More on this building here:

http://www.forgottendetroit.com/uat/index.html

More on the Statler:

http://www.forgottendetroit.com/statler/history-postem.html

Looks like the administrative buildings are occupied. Just to the right (east?) and across the rail tracks you will see a hazardous waste clean-up project. It looks like a field, but is more likely a "coffin" where the toxic waste from the factory has been entombed in an earthen monument. Around the site there are probably test wells for sampling the ground water. You see this a lot a former solid waste dumps and refineries and smelters.

Position on the runway and attitude of the nose, I think it's taking off.

Reverted to pre-Katrena pic.

Same as the one seen at Chino?

http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/23262/

It's hard to tell, but I think it may be leaving LV, not appapproaching...

Great find!

It's a UAV. Some have been modified for missiles. No reason to believe that they will can not be modified for other missions as well. UAV seems like a good all-around class.

Wow, I'm surprised this wasn't already in...

Also, note the "fake" street scean / village.

I think whatever is going on there, it has to do with training, Lackland is an ATC base.

Notice that it's right next to a bomb dump. And, they deal with a lot of nukes at Lackland and Kelley Annex. Could be related.

Also, in the Live pics, note the parking lot full of fighter aircraft below and left, probably for practice loading and unloading, as there doesn't seem to be access to an air field...

I think it's been turned into a housing subdivision...

Come on! They may be emergency slides, but whatever they are, it's not related to rockets...

Or maybe it's a pile of dicarded scrap?

I'm a little amazed to see this on both Live and Google since it's not a static display...

This is an interesting airport to me because the new single runway with parallel taxiway and apron, which is what we traditionally see today, though it is "superimposed over the old triangle shaped set-up, which I see in a lot of older airports. So, why the change in basic design philosophy?

Opps, logged in...

Our guys train against them because there are still people flying them. The also use F-4s as drones (though these are not drones).

These are absolutely the most amazing aircraft I've ever seen take off, and are quite interesting up close. I was stationed at Beale AFB in the late 1980's, and spent a lot of hours watching these things take off and land... The cockpits are very tight, and I was amazed at how they where what I thought of as very low tech, lots of gages and such. They would roll them in and out of the hangers depending on what satellite was passing over, and they had movable awnings to obscure the cockpits if...

You're not kidding, 19 Huey bodies in the parking lot alone...

What is "truckspotting"?

Dolphins with laser beams on their heads?

The last royal occupant of Het Loo was Queen Wilhelmina, having given to castle to the State in 1962. Now, her daughter, Queen Juliana, took up residence at Soestdijk Palace, which I can't find on the map. It would make a good addition to Virtual Globetrotting...

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

Looks like it doesn't get much traffic, the enterence is surounded by what looks like a shanty town of some type...

The positioning of the hangers and the security parameter suggest that these are “alert birds”, fully armed fighters manned by crews 24/7 ready to launch in very short periods of time. Most fighter bases here and overseas have a few of these. In the United States, they are often Air National Guard, rather than regular Active Duty Air Force.

Wonder what the purpose of the long field with the many bridges (???) crossing it is...

Maybe it looks different in NVG gear.

On second thought, there are actually a number of small jet trainers that look a lot like the T-38...

T-38 Talon / F-5 is my bet. See the small intakes on the sides (F-16 has a single large intake under the belly)? Looks a lot like a 2 seat T-38 Air Force trainer.

Wonder if he uses illegal premium channel decoders...

The fire truck is called a P-19, it's built on the standard Oshkosh truck frame seen in a lot of Army rolling stock. It was state-of-the-art airport fire truck technology in 1985.

Odd place for a stadium... But what are the raised platforms for?

It's for training. Wildland fire fighting troops train and deploy from this location.

Looks like training of some type.

Is this a Space Shuttle landing strip?

Water reflecting off a field.

Looks like a C-17 Globemaster.

What's the story on Mother Goose?

A picture from FoxNews.com:

http://www.foxnews.com/images/220434/32_25_082706_kentucky_crash.jpg

shows the site to be in the area of Lat 38.039685, Lon -84.611413. Substantually closer than the 1/2 mile that I've seen in the press.

There seems to be some question of if the aircraft took off on the correct runway. One is a lot shrter than the other...

You'll notice two runways, one is very much shorter than the other. There is some question as to if the pilot used the wrong, shorter runway by mistake.

Near the city of "Hami".

I wonder if most people know about this place prior to moving into the nearby condos...

Looks very well kepts compaired to other Soviet sub bone yards...

There seems to be a great absence of buildings, and even evidence that there ever where a larger number of buildings, like barracks and other support structures. Wonder why...

Meh. I'm inclined to guess that it's just a bad match-up between images...

Here's an interesting site about Crecent Lake:

http://www.craigmagnuson.com/crescent.htm

Several years back, some divers found a car at the bottom of the lake that had vanished in the 1930's.

The lodge at the lake is very nice, though a bit spendy.

On the other hand, look at its location. Not exactly where one would expect a drydock. So, maybe it *is* a wreck.

According to Zillow.com, it's worth just a little less than Steven King's place down to way (10.6 M.) at about 1.5 M. Still, I'd live there...

So basically, this is a random abandoned building that has a bunch of bums – excuse me, sorry – “artists” living in it? I see...