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This is a landing site for space Jews. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sou...3,0.024676&z=16 An old Navy training facility. It is hard to land a, inter-war taildragger airplane in a crosswind, so they built runways such that there would always be two that were the right-way to the wind. It is still used for helicopter training
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Skyworks posted:It is likely a military airbase of some sort. I remember reading something years ago that stated they store the fighter aircraft inside hollowed out mountains to prevent them being bombed and just roll them out and take off. Here is one of those. The China Air Museum at Datanshan is a formerly secret air-base drilled through the side of a mountain big enough to drive a 60's vintage intercontinental bomber through. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sou...012338&t=h&z=17 You can see the distintive hexagonal arrangement of an SA-2 Missile battery, as well as two TU-4 Bull strategic bombers that were copied from the American B-29, the TU-16 that dropped China's first Hydrogen bomb, three American built C-46 transports captured from the KMT, and more Mig 15's than you can shake a stick at. Slo-Tek fucked around with this message at 22:24 on Dec 9, 2010 |
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This was interesting. These aren't exactly X-37 airforce space planes, but they are pretty drat close. Possibly glide test models, or static mockups banged together out of plywood. http://maps.google.com/maps?q=mojav...fornia&t=h&z=20 Apparently it is these http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_Sciences_X-34 Slo-Tek fucked around with this message at 23:17 on Jan 3, 2012 |
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