Check this out in Google Earth. For just the campus they have on pixel equals one inch resolution. You can make out the makes and models of cars, see people on the east lawn and even make out a frisbee in the air.
There was no dupe. Mine is just the BMEWS site. Yours is the whole AFB. I was just cross referencing the two so someone seeing one would see the other.
Ummm... He's posting the single ship. As his description says its "part of" the ghost fleet. Try the "Nearby Maps" link and you'll get info on the other ships.
People often post a single item among a collection of items.
Sometimes I come across a list of interesting locations and go through the list looking for each. For example the Nike Missile sites. Other times I happen across one and then while looking for more info to add to the description I come across references to others of the same type.
In this case I was looking around the boneyard at Davis-Monthan and saw the first Guppy. Research said there was a second in he Pima Air Museum...
Now according to a database of 707 fuselages there is suposed to the the front half of one used here for training. I guess that might be it along the east side of the course but I doubt it since that structure seems to be in-line with a course.
OK, this is a coincidence. I spent part of this morning looking for a Military Working Dog training couse inthe Davis Monthan images. Never found it though. It is suposed to have a Boeing 707 fuselage at the training site. For training the dogs in an airplane environment (I assume).
This site shows structures just like this one and calls it "finfish aquaculture." I think they are nets used to contain fish that are grown amd then harvested at maturity.
I originally put Berkeley but then I found this Berkeley City planning document that states "The Summit Reservoir, located in the City of El Cerrito..."
A large lake has been built on the museum premises to achieve an atmosphere of the sea. A complete Minesweeper and a Midget Submarine have been anchored in the lake. For the preservation of the rapidly diminishing tradition of manual boat building a traditional riverine boat called Baghochan has been permanently displayed. The...
This bridge is decorated by the famous statue of the "zouave" carved by Georges Diebolt, on the up-stream cut-water of the single pier. This statue is used as reference mark for the level of the Seine floods.
I'm sorry but you are wrong about this not being C-50L (the L being for "Launch." You may have grown up outside a former Nike missile site but it wasn't C-50L. Multiple listings of this site have it here and the pad is clearly a Nike Launch pad. Those same listings have the command center west of Illinois 11 and North of 178th street which would be consistent with a site 3/4 of a mile to the NW.
Well you are half right. It isn't Krasnoyarsk-45. But it isn't merely some northern subsurb of Tomsk eithr. It is Seversk, home of The Siberian Chemical Combine (Sibkhimkombinat) which consists of five military production reactors, a chemical separation plant, a reprocessing facility for uranium and plutonium, a uranium enrichment plant, and storage facilities for radioactive waste. There is also a facility to store retired warheads.
I wish more people would take a topic and pound it to death like this. Like the Vatican maps, the nike missiles, the castles, etc. We alsways get a good pile of interesting maps that as a whole make an even more interesting collection.
Good job!
p.s. If anyone is looking for topics like this let me know, I've dozens queued up.
500!!! Good job! I love your castles. What will you post when you run out of castles though? I hope you visit each and take pictures of them for the Pics section of GGT.
I suppose these could be defending the Tharthar Presidential Palace just to the SE. No other missile sites around though and what would be the point of radars with out missiles. Maybe the small mounds are missiel sites?
I added it to the "abandoned" category. The USGS lists lots of places that were once populated that no longer have any sign of current or former habitation.
It is just a my GGT way of celebrating the holiday.
But if it still offends you then I think if you should really look at where the "copying" is happening.
Let's just look at the ten most recent postings at GoogleSiteseeing:
The Korean airfields that are the most recent GoogleSiteseeing post along with the paculiarities described in the text is as far as I can tell, derived from a lot of work that pdunn has obsesively done over the last three months on the Korean sites.
Nuke plants don't have smokestacks or coal fields. Look to the south and you can see the mountains of coal.
Many people think these water cooling towers mark nuclear plants but they are just water cooling towers for condensing steam. The steam may be heated with coal, oil, nuclear power or natural gas.
How about some details? Like how you know this is it and links to more info. Your posts are pretty bare. It is customary around here to flesh out posts if there is info to be found. Most of yours would be fairly easy to flesh out.
By the way, how do you know that this particular plane is the shuttle's 747?
Like defense sites on maps of the former Soviet Union McDonald's offsets their establishments on their own maps in case the rest of the world choses to target them with ICBMs (International Cheese Burger Mutilaters).
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AKpilotEMP, do you want me to updat the URL? If not I'll move it to "Satellite Update"
http://googleglobetrotting.com/info.php/mid/5810
http://www.ussiowa.com/
People often post a single item among a collection of items.
Sometimes I come across a list of interesting locations and go through the list looking for each. For example the Nike Missile sites. Other times I happen across one and then while looking for more info to add to the description I come across references to others of the same type.
In this case I was looking around the boneyard at Davis-Monthan and saw the first Guppy. Research said there was a second in he Pima Air Museum...
Now according to a database of 707 fuselages there is suposed to the the front half of one used here for training. I guess that might be it along the east side of the course but I doubt it since that structure seems to be in-line with a course.
http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~wellerst/collection/images/stateville_illinois_prison.jpg
Looks like these are Philadelphia County Jail and other related detention facilities.
http://www.clf.org/programs/cases.asp?id=207
Adak Naval Air Station / Adak Naval Air Facility
Adak Naval Operations Base
Adak Army Base
This facility is part of the "Centre de Transmissions France Sud" (or CTM France Sud), operated by the Marine Nationale, near Bram.
I think there is another site in low-rez area, near Villemagne (43.36, 2.11).
Here is a 2:20 video, showing clearly the antennas.
This is were the satellite Syracuse 3A is operated.
In the western part of the site are two ELTA...
http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/planning/landuse/plans/generalPlan/eir/4j_hydrology.html
http://www.paknavy.gov.pk/HISTORY/MUSEUM/MUSEUM-main.htm
A large lake has been built on the museum premises to achieve an atmosphere of the sea. A complete Minesweeper and a Midget Submarine have been anchored in the lake. For the preservation of the rapidly diminishing tradition of manual boat building a traditional riverine boat called Baghochan has been permanently displayed. The...
Tajoura Nuclear Research Centre
This image:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/libya/images/tajura-pic003.jpg
is taken facing ESE at this point:
http://www.google.com/maps?q=Libya&ll=32.840087,13.451504&spn=0.006089,0.010784&t=k&hl=en
http://googleglobetrotting.com/info.php/mid/12709
Did you live next to this site?
...
Thanks for pointing it out.
http://www.google.com/maps?q=United+Arab+Emirates&ll=24.220158,54.617629&z=0&t=k&hl=en
(feel free to post it)
Good job!
p.s. If anyone is looking for topics like this let me know, I've dozens queued up.
http://mirror.rtor.net/rendezvous20_04.mov
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/iraq/tharthar-cc-imagery.htm
This page mentions air defenses:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/iraq/tharthar-cc.htm
I added it to the "abandoned" category. The USGS lists lots of places that were once populated that no longer have any sign of current or former habitation.
It is just a my GGT way of celebrating the holiday.
Let's just look at the ten most recent postings at GoogleSiteseeing:
The Korean airfields that are the most recent GoogleSiteseeing post along with the paculiarities described in the text is as far as I can tell, derived from a lot of work that pdunn has obsesively done over the last three months on the Korean sites.
The Voortrekker monument was...
Many people think these water cooling towers mark nuclear plants but they are just water cooling towers for condensing steam. The steam may be heated with coal, oil, nuclear power or natural gas.
By the way, how do you know that this particular plane is the shuttle's 747?
http://googleglobetrotting.com/info.php/mid/9897
http://www.golfingguidesthailand.com/s-Bangphra%20Golf%20Course