Which Aerodrome?
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The something is probably a balloon.
The state is almost certainly Kentucky or a neighbouring state.
The aircraft being a Kentucky ANG machine
The final attempt at an explanation was that it was a Navy Skyhook balloon released from Clinton AFB, Ohio. These balloons were very large, and very high-altitude balloons used for measuring cosmic rays. They were top-secret in 1948. This explanation was never proven, though. No one could find any documentation that a balloon of any kind had been launched at the proper time and/or place for it to have traveled the path that the object had traveled.
Open House if correct: Interesting story, thanks for posting.
The state is almost certainly Kentucky or a neighbouring state.
The aircraft being a Kentucky ANG machine
The final attempt at an explanation was that it was a Navy Skyhook balloon released from Clinton AFB, Ohio. These balloons were very large, and very high-altitude balloons used for measuring cosmic rays. They were top-secret in 1948. This explanation was never proven, though. No one could find any documentation that a balloon of any kind had been launched at the proper time and/or place for it to have traveled the path that the object had traveled.
Open House if correct: Interesting story, thanks for posting.
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Another guess, but Google Earth has some scenes that seem to fit.
I think it's Indianapolis, where the earliest development work of ILS took place. The modern airport is to the south of this site?
Open House if correct, a brilliant challenge this one.
India Four Two, you beat me to it while I was composing... That is, I suppose, better than being beaten to it whilst de-composing.
I think it's Indianapolis, where the earliest development work of ILS took place. The modern airport is to the south of this site?
Open House if correct, a brilliant challenge this one.
India Four Two, you beat me to it while I was composing... That is, I suppose, better than being beaten to it whilst de-composing.
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Tiger_mate has it, Clinton County AFB, Wilmington, Ohio. It was a secret Skyhook balloon released from here that was mistaken for a UFO and caused the crash of an investigating Mustang. Some sources say this was in Indiana and others that it was (most likely I think) in Kentucky which is why I said 'adjoining state'.
It was home to the 'All Weather Flying Detachment' whose rather brave pilots deliberately flew aircraft into thunderstorms and similar weather for research purposes. They often used P-61 Black Widows with reinforced wings and noses for this. The results obtained eventually lead to to development of ILS and the first ever installation was made on runway 22 at Clinton.
All material gathered from: https://www.abxair.com/flightweb/ABX...county_afb.htm a site which makes interesting reading.
Tiger has it!
PS thanks to TT for the kind pm's (which I only read after posting this and which confirm Kentucky). Look forward to your return at the appropriate time.
It was home to the 'All Weather Flying Detachment' whose rather brave pilots deliberately flew aircraft into thunderstorms and similar weather for research purposes. They often used P-61 Black Widows with reinforced wings and noses for this. The results obtained eventually lead to to development of ILS and the first ever installation was made on runway 22 at Clinton.
All material gathered from: https://www.abxair.com/flightweb/ABX...county_afb.htm a site which makes interesting reading.
Tiger has it!
PS thanks to TT for the kind pm's (which I only read after posting this and which confirm Kentucky). Look forward to your return at the appropriate time.
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LFT is correct. Jackson County Mountain Arport, K24A, near Sylva, North Carolina, USA. RWY 15/33, 3000' by 50', elev. 2857'ASL. No Control Tower. My kind of airport! You have control.
Jackson County Mountain Arport, K24A, near Sylva, North Carolina, USA. RWY 15/33, 3000' by 50', elev. 2857'ASL. No Control Tower. My kind of airport! You have control.
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FYI, in the United States, there are/were two other aerodromes named 'Walker'. Walker Army Airfield in Victoria, Kansas; and Walker Air Force Base (formerly Roswell AFB) in New Mexico, which was the largest SAC base in the USA until its closure in 1967.
