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Old 14th Jan 2018, 16:03
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Airbubba
 
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Originally Posted by George K Lee
Airbubba - I think that's the ex-Martin-Marietta range built in the 1980s.
It is.

I used to fly a bizjet into a nearby private strip on occasion. I knew a couple of Martin executives back in the day and asked them about the facility. Both admitted that they knew it was an important national defense operation with tight security but claimed to know nothing more.

The nearby private strip was on another secret test facility, Lake Conlin, aka Lake X:

The Outboard Expert: Off the Map at Lake X - boats.com
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