Global Hawk

On Oct 1, 10:33 pm, Richard Riley wrote:
On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 15:02:44 -0400, john smith
wrote:

In article . com,
"Robert M. Gary" wrote:

The pilot also said that they are all very confused as to why the GH
is based out of an area of such high air traffic. He said he thought
the military was originally going to base them out of an island owned
by the Navy off the cost of LA where there is really no GA traffic.

Come on Robert, that is an easy answer.... politics!

Well, Beal isn't exactly Los Alamitos. Sure, there's traffic there,
but it's not that much.

Basing them off shore would have been a LOT more expensive. There's
no infrastructure there, it would all have to be built.

There is a massive Navy base.

-Robert

On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 09:23:09 -0700, "Robert M. Gary"
wrote in
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Basing them off shore would have been a LOT more expensive. There's
no infrastructure there, it would all have to be built.

There is a massive Navy base.

I suppose that depends on your definition of 'massive.'

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=e...&t=h&z=15&om=1
http://tinyurl.com/27ofxh

"Larry Dighera" wrote in message
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On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 09:23:09 -0700, "Robert M. Gary"
wrote in
. com:

Basing them off shore would have been a LOT more expensive. There's
no infrastructure there, it would all have to be built.

There is a massive Navy base.

I suppose that depends on your definition of 'massive.'


Any idea what else the base is currently being use for?

On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 18:34:41 -0500, "Maxwell" wrote
in :

Any idea what else the base is currently being use for?

I had always heard over the years, that San Nicolas Island was part of
a missile testing range, but that's just rumor.