Groom Lake ICAO designate KXTA
 

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

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

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

Welcome to 2008.

Yeah that, lol

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 :)

So they shot Bugs and his student, right?

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.

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?

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

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!