Groom Lake ICAO designate KXTA

[chopper2004]

Finally Groom Lake has a name :cool:

KXTA

Area 51 designated with a new name - Air Force News | News from Afghanistan & Iraq - Air Force Times (http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2008/01/airforce_area51_newname_080122w/)

Though mildly surprised the Air Force Times published this article

Would this be a first step in bringing the dark side into the light?

Then again if anyone has read the excellent book Never In Anger by Anthony 'Bugs' Bendall, there is a bit whereby the author is on exchange at Nellis training 'Thud' crews for deployment to Vietnam and one of his students has a problem in the air whereby both of them landed at an outpost of Nellis and saw the A-12 Oxcart for the first time pre public announcement.

Cheers

[Willard Whyte]

I thought they'd moved all the aliens up to the Dugway Proving Ground in Utah.

[Ewan Whosearmy]

Welcome to 2008.

[zondaracer]

Welcome to 2008

Yeah that, lol

[chopper2004]

Ok so it's been 4 coming up to five years and no GA allowed to land there have coffee or Capuccino with the retired Red Hats / Red Eagles :) lol

What's with the name of 'Homey' sound very homey would have thought named it something like LeMay AFB :)

[Temp Spike]

So they shot Bugs and his student, right?

[chopper2004]

Nope neither :) just thorough interviews without coffee but Bugs had hard time convincing he was a Brit on exchange across the road but once he mentioned a certain Air Commodore based in D.C then no more was said and returned to Nellis. In the book he states that his student was released a while (days?) later and looking worse for wear.

[Temp Spike]

A Brit? Britain knew about our secret spy plane? Was the student named Bond?

Hmmm wonder if I can plug KXTA into my mid course emergency alternate for V105 North? Shoot one and amble into old KXTA unannounced?

[mike-wsm]

Er, keep this quiet lads, KXTA, K for US of A, XTA for Extra-Terrestrial Arrivals...

[Temp Spike]

Thats ok Mike, I'll wear a tin-foil hat when I land. They'll never notice me.


...hell...they won't even SEE me!