Javelin wrote: http://goo.gl/maps/B05hJ Interesting Chinese aircraft dump in the home port of their aircraft carrier.
That is a game I have tried to play a couple of times. Scroll around China randomly and try to find military bases... very hard to do. I don't think I have found one. It's a big country.
Javelin wrote: Abandoned Russian Air Force base with interesting connections to a deep draft river.
Perhaps for Ekranoplan use?
Javelin wrote: 747 water slide...
That is at Evergreen Aviation. Home of the Spruce Goose.
Bobzilla wrote:Javelin wrote: 747 water slide...That is at Evergreen Aviation. Home of the Spruce Goose.
Yep! And Mrs. Javelin's grandfather's F-102A Delta Dagger.
Pre-restoration:
Post-restoration:
That airframe sat outside at the Oregon Museum of Science & Industry for decades, too.
In reply to Javelin:
My phone is being retarded and not showing where that's actually linking to. But if its a sky view of Davis Monthan then its not the Space Shuttle 747 its the airborne laser missle shooter downer thingy. I can see it from the road as I'm driving by 2-3 times a week.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_YAL-1
Its been a while since I've been on a tour of the AMARG site there but its really cool. And those are D-21 drones there. I think there are 3 total. It was awesome seeing those B-1B coming it but sad that they won't be flying again any time soon 
you can plainly see the mounting points where the shuttles sat on top of it...
In reply to novaderrik:
My phone wasnt displaying those maps links properly. I just commandeered the woman's laptop and looked at them and you are correct. Tonopah is quite a ways from me lol, my mistake.
The link that kinda worked came up as Davis monthan but not on any specific plane so I thought he was talking about a plane there.
In reply to Lancer007:
The link for the NASA 747 is actually for Edwards AFB. Davis-Monthan was featured in the first few links. I was searching around Tonopah, but I have no idea how that showed up in any link because there weren't any planes there.
In reply to Javelin:
That's weird haha.
If you go south east of the shuttle carrier there is a complex on the other side of the runways with some really cool E36 M3 on the Tarmac. I can't figure out how to get a link on my phone to copy. Hmph.
Sad to see so many herks out to pasture. Will be many more joining them soon.
Lancer007 wrote: In reply to Javelin: That's weird haha. If you go south east of the shuttle carrier there is a complex on the other side of the runways with some really cool E36 M3 on the Tarmac. I can't figure out how to get a link on my phone to copy. Hmph.
there's also a compass that has to be a couple of miles across carved into the lakebed...
You guys post these Google Maps links without coordinates and I cant find crap. Like the Russian water launch pad? Couldn't find it at all.
Jav, those are defiantly D-21s. Hell, your in Seattle, go the Museum of flight and look at the M-21/D-21 for yourself. 
Thanks guys, I just wasted three hours of my life on google maps discovering what a huge E36 M3 hole Tuscon Arizona is.
nicksta43 wrote: Thanks guys, I just wasted three hours of my life on google maps discovering what a huge E36 M3 hole Tuscon Arizona is.
My inlaws live there. I could have told you that without you wasting 3 hours. lol
The further north you vet from the base, the nicer the town gets. But the roads are E36 M3ty just about everywhere though...
^ Troof. Inlaws actually live up in Oro Valley. Nice neighborhoods but the roads are terrible.
I'm not sure about the first one. To me, the nose looks like a jet inlet, ala the Mig 21:
And the body looks like something Convair might have come up with in the late 60's/early 70's. They made a lot of weird stuff.
And I seem to recall something about a early, pilotless jet with a front intake like that, but I can't rattle it loose from the back of my brain. Or maybe the M.I.B. erased it.
Ah, the D-21, I missed that post.
I knew it was in there somewhere!
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