View Full Version : Spotting from home - Black Helicopters & Paranoia
Memetic
18th Oct 2005, 21:55
A great article on The Register (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/14/google_earth_competition_results/) about the interesting things one can spot on Google earth.
Can anyone shed light on the runway layout on the last picture? Page 11 of the article. (Now included below)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/14/arizona_black_helicopter.jpg
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This post replaced my earlier badly spelt topic!
emergov
18th Oct 2005, 23:29
The field looks just like the training fields that surround the US Army Avn Trg Centre at Ft Rucker. They have about five (?) satellite fields with six tarmac lanes each to conduct high density circuit operations.
Given the newness of the tarmac, the presence of a (probably dark green) Blackhawk, and the sand everywhere, I'm going to float a guess that this is a new training airfield to be used by US Army aviators in Iraq or Afghanistan. Either that, or it's a Saudi or UAE training base.
Any other theories?
I bet you that picture was taken in Arizona, somwhere between tucson and phoenix there was that field...close to another field which was a CIA base, im not sure of the names since i don`t have the charts here anymore, but I`ll look it up
That CIA field was Marana (AVQ), yes I got my charts out quicly, I can`t find the helicpoter strip, but it was definately between phoenix and houston
saman
19th Oct 2005, 10:34
If you look at Fairford, you'll find just one wee aircraft sitting on just one 'not so wee' hardstand. It's a TR 1 or U2 .
No other aircraft or activity can be seen.
And much to my surprise, there is a disused airfield just of the SW end of the main runway. Being that close it shows just how enormous today's Fairford really is. The original Fairford was at the western end of today's mega field.