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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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 Posted - 08/16/2009 : 09:52:56
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This airport has quite a few aircraft, but doesn't seem busy.
1. What's its name?
(Note: I have blurred out an identifying mark on a runway.)
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Edited by - HalfMooner on 08/16/2009 09:53:49
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Randy
SFN Regular
USA
1990 Posts |
Posted - 08/16/2009 : 10:34:58 [Permalink]
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| Just a guess, but I'll say the aircraft boneyard at Tucson, Arizona. |
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"So you're made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?"
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bngbuck
SFN Addict
USA
2437 Posts |
Posted - 08/16/2009 : 10:53:01 [Permalink]
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Probably Davis-Monthan Air Force base in Phoenix, AZ. or Mohave Airport, the civilian component of the boneyard.
Or Litchfield Park, AZ, in the same neighborhood.
Kingman, Tucson or Pinal are also possibilities, all in Arizona. |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 08/16/2009 : 11:19:05 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Randy
Just a guess, but I'll say the aircraft boneyard at Tucson, Arizona.
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No, sorry, it's not.
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 08/16/2009 : 11:20:09 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by bngbuck
Probably Davis-Monthan Air Force base in Phoenix, AZ. or Mohave Airport, the civilian component of the boneyard.
Or Litchfield Park, AZ, in the same neighborhood.
Kingman, Tucson or Pinal are also possibilities, all in Arizona.
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Those are a lot of guesses. Pick one, please.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
1992 Posts |
Posted - 08/16/2009 : 17:30:29 [Permalink]
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| Davis Monthan seems like a good guess |
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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bngbuck
SFN Addict
USA
2437 Posts |
Posted - 08/16/2009 : 17:47:31 [Permalink]
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Mooner.........
Finally......:
Mohave Airport, Mohave Kern, CA
My GoogleEarth gave a totally different perspective on the aerial. I finally counted planes in rows to get correspondence between the two pictures!
If I don't get my richly deserved points on this one, I'm getting together with a couple of holy hooligans that I've met recently on SFN and we're hustling to Half Moon Bay with a half-assed bomb to find the halfwit hermit of San Mateo county hunched over, hacking away haphazardly at heuristic hokem! And BOOMER! goes Mooner |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 08/16/2009 : 17:51:59 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Simon
Davis Monthan seems like a good guess
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Seems like, but isn't, sorry.
Hint # 1: This is not primarily an aircraft graveyard.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 08/16/2009 : 17:58:22 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by bngbuck
Mooner.........
Finally......:
Mohave Airport, Mohave Kern, CA
My GoogleEarth gave a totally different perspective on the aerial. I finally counted planes in rows to get correspondence between the two pictures!
If I don't get my richly deserved points on this one, I'm getting together with a couple of holy hooligans that I've met recently on SFN and we're hustling to Half Moon Bay with a half-assed bomb to find the halfwit hermit of San Mateo county hunched over, hacking away haphazardly at heuristic hokem! And BOOMER! goes Mooner
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Oops, missed that! Correct! (Though it's spelled "Mojave".) You win again, congrats, Bill!
I rotated the images to make the 700-pixel version fit better. But I left the compass rose in place, to be fair.
I've driven past the place. It's loaded with stored commercial airliners, largely from failed or downsized carriers. Its "boneyard" functions seem to be secondary.
Mojave is also a designated spaceport. Per Wiki:| Mojave Spaceport has been a test site for several teams in the Ansari X Prize, most notably SpaceShipOne, which conducted the first privately funded human sub-orbital flight on June 21, 2004. Other groups based at the Mojave Spaceport include XCOR Aerospace, Masten Space Systems, Orbital Sciences Corporation, and Interorbital Systems. |
Also, I've not lived in Half Moon Bay for over a year now, so my handle is obsolete.
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| Edited by - HalfMooner on 08/16/2009 18:15:30 |
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podcat
Skeptic Friend
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Posted - 08/16/2009 : 21:04:07 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by bngbuck
Mooner.........
If I don't get my richly deserved points on this one, I'm getting together with a couple of holy hooligans that I've met recently on SFN and we're hustling to Half Moon Bay with a half-assed bomb to find the halfwit hermit of San Mateo county hunched over, hacking away haphazardly at heuristic hokem! And BOOMER! goes Mooner
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Tune in next time for "Bngbuckaroo Banzai" or "Doctor Strangebngbuck: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Half-*ed Bomb".
I like these photo quizzes. Keep 'em coming, or I'll be joining with those hooligans to Half Moon. :) |
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What on Earth?: Quiet Airport
