Google Earth, Interesting sights
India four two,
...if you look at the Panoramio links for that location you'll see it's a C46, used to fly Chiang Kai Shek. That whole line of aircraft is part of a museum open to the public, apparently.
The Chinese built underground hangars for DC-3s?
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Interesting that the sites 20Km W of mungo's 40° 27'19.80"N 93° 45'09.14"E have been used as bombing targets or ordnance testing. The big squares - one at the end of the "runway" the other on its own just to the W are peppered with craters, some may be grouped. The blue buildings in a grouphave been whacked too.
Someone went to huge effort to grade the big 850m to the W square as flat as that, some of the edges must be 15-20m above the surrounding terrain. What needs a flat, level square that size?
The Erik Von Danikens of 5000years time would have a field day over that!
How about this is a testing range for some kind of terrain mapping delivery system - cruise missiles etc - with final waypoints simulating a stylised streetscape and targets beyond to verify damage to hardstanding (the concrete squares) and an "erasable" area to verify scatter patterns and accuracy of cluster weapons. Look at Taiwanese urban street layouts, they bear a remarkable resemblance to the grids here.
Note how the "runways" are untouched, yet the "hardstandings" are unusable. That's what you'd want if you needed to destroy the other guy's fleet on the ground, and use runway yourself later.
Holes range from about 1 to 3.5m across. How big a munition does it take to do that? Cluster bomb size?
Someone went to huge effort to grade the big 850m to the W square as flat as that, some of the edges must be 15-20m above the surrounding terrain. What needs a flat, level square that size?
The Erik Von Danikens of 5000years time would have a field day over that!
Scale representations of Taiwanese street scapes and air bases perhaps?
Note how the "runways" are untouched, yet the "hardstandings" are unusable. That's what you'd want if you needed to destroy the other guy's fleet on the ground, and use runway yourself later.
Holes range from about 1 to 3.5m across. How big a munition does it take to do that? Cluster bomb size?
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Google Sightseeing
Not exactly aircraft based but: Google Sightseeing - Discover the world via Google Maps and Google Earth
Plenty of sightings and some reference to google streetmap too.
Called Ordnance Survey Sightseeing for the day (April 1st)
Plenty of sightings and some reference to google streetmap too.
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In the aftermath of the turkish crash at SPL the other day I looked at 18R on my Iphone as I had not been there recently. At least not since 18R was built and old 18R became 18C. Any way I loved what I saw, a one winged areplane over the lights, not sure if its still there. (No it wasn't the crashed one just a composite photo.)
T&B
Oh dear, just reduced my Total Aviation Person quotient 
However, in my defence, I did think it was a rather "fat" DC-3!
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Dear Nosy Mushroom,
Surprisingly, your sub (a Sierra?) is at a submarine shipyard
in Nizhny Novgorod. The Volga is linked to the Baltic and the Black Sea via very large canals.
Ask and you shall receive. This will keep you busy. SAM sites, complete with range rings - Google Earth Blog: Surface to Air Missile Sites in Google Earth
And a bit closer to (my) home - here's an interesting hexagonal pattern at Tan Son Nhat airport - radar guided AAA 10°49'32.30"N 106°39'20.05"E. There is another one a little to the north.
you'll see it's a C46
However, in my defence, I did think it was a rather "fat" DC-3!AB
I've even found a bloody great nuc(?) sub on the Volga
I'm a nosy bugger, aren't I
Surprisingly, your sub (a Sierra?) is at a submarine shipyard
in Nizhny Novgorod. The Volga is linked to the Baltic and the Black Sea via very large canals.
SAM ....any more like this?
And a bit closer to (my) home - here's an interesting hexagonal pattern at Tan Son Nhat airport - radar guided AAA 10°49'32.30"N 106°39'20.05"E. There is another one a little to the north.
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If you Light Blue types like Defunct SSBN's (Bombers) and SSN's go to 56° 1'18.12"N 3°27'9.22"W Where you can see eight rusting away and no CDS or MOD will make a disposal decison since 1982 when Dreadnought arrived. If they did, of course, do it on their watch none of you would have new toys of any type for years to come because of the costs.
So its new FJ, Box Humpers, Carriers and even more SSBN and SSN's or remove a 35 year old ticking toxic waste time bomb.
Some more in Plymouth if can be bothered to look.
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So its new FJ, Box Humpers, Carriers and even more SSBN and SSN's or remove a 35 year old ticking toxic waste time bomb.
Some more in Plymouth if can be bothered to look.
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Modelling for big boys
How about Huangyangtan 38 16 00.84N 105 57 00.11E?
Apparently it is a 900Mx700M scale representation of an area on the Chinese border with India. Lots of weird theories out there as to why they've done it.
If you have a look to the west it would appear that there are multiple underground entrances to the hillside although they might just be weird hardstandings 38 15 52.48N 105 55 44.69E
Apparently it is a 900Mx700M scale representation of an area on the Chinese border with India. Lots of weird theories out there as to why they've done it.
If you have a look to the west it would appear that there are multiple underground entrances to the hillside although they might just be weird hardstandings 38 15 52.48N 105 55 44.69E
Slightly off-thread, but I have had a lot of fun looking at airfields I have served at/flown from to see how they have changed. One which really amazed me was Khormaksar in Aden (South Yemen). When I was there in 1966 it was home to Hunters (2 squadrons) Argosies, Beverleys, Shackletons, Whirlwinds, Twin Pioneers and (I think) Javelins, with lots of Transport Command visiting Britts and Comets. Taking a look this morning the latest pic shows 6 helicopters and a 4 prop transport (my a/c recognition was always rubbish, no idea of types, but presumably Russian). I don't suppose the Yemenis have much of an air force, but what a waste of a huge resource handed over in its entirety in 1967 when we made a rather rapid departure.
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How about Papoose Lake? The tin foil hat brigade will tell you that Area 51 is just for show now and the real stuff happens here!
Think this is the right one!
36°56'52.11"N 116° 1'15.12"W
Think this is the right one!
36°56'52.11"N 116° 1'15.12"W
I don't own this space under my name. I should have leased it while I still could
The white globe lamps taken down, the bulbs smashed and the globes filled with water and replaced.
Quick setting cement down the toilets etc; mind you I guess they would noy have used the toilets anyway.
