photos of Moffet Field (NUQ)

What is really of interest is how starnge the place looks with no
P-3's. Used to be more than 100 P-3's on that base. 6 operational
active squadrons (9, 19, 40, 46, 48, 50) with 9 airplanes each, one
reserve squadron with 9 a/c, (VP-91), VP-MAU with 9-11 P-3's, and of
course VP-31 the Rag with anywhere between 15-30 aircraft.

o) wrote:

http://www.lazygranch.com/nuq.htm
I took a few aerial photos of this federal airfield. The FA18 photo
may be of interest to the group.

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http://www.lazygranch.com/nuq.htm
I took a few aerial photos of this federal airfield. The FA18 photo
may be of interest to the group.

there is a very interesting fact about Moffet Field. Those big rounded
blimp hangers are big enough that they have their own weather systems
inside them.

George ) wrote:
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: http://www.lazygranch.com/nuq.htm
: I took a few aerial photos of this federal airfield. The FA18 photo
: may be of interest to the group.

: there is a very interesting fact about Moffet Field. Those big rounded
: blimp hangers are big enough that they have their own weather systems
: inside them.

I know that's true of Hangar 1--the big (single) hangar on the
west side of the field--but have not heard that about the two
smaller hangars, which are/were used for airplanes.

My old stomping grounds. Your C-141 looks like the old Kuiper infrared
observatory. A school chum of mine spent thousands of hours on that thing
chasing eclipses and such all over the word.

Does the NASA U-2 still take off every morning? It must be a lot quiter at the
golf course without the Orions coming in overhead.

-- Charlie Springer

"Regnirps" wrote in message
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My old stomping grounds. Your C-141 looks like the old Kuiper infrared
observatory. A school chum of mine spent thousands of hours on that thing
chasing eclipses and such all over the word.

Does the NASA U-2 still take off every morning? It must be a lot quiter at
the
golf course without the Orions coming in overhead.

-- Charlie Springer

I recall the day I was out running on the Palo Alto baylands and stopped
to watch the U-2 take off from Moffet about three miles away. The tiny
spec disappeared from my view directly overhead. Clear sky.
Several years earlier I lived under the landing pattern of those Orions
and they could be very quiet when they wanted them to be, but they
sure screwed up the TV picture. Then there were the night sounds.
I've heard several people comment about the different sounding
aircraft at night that they never heard or saw in daylight. Again, when
out running the baylands but just across the creek from Moffet, I heard
one of those night sounds, but in broad daylight. I stopped to watch.
Coming toward me was a twin propeller aircraft, but those blades
seemed unusually large. After it passed overhead and was over Moffet
it made it's change and landed. First time I had ever seen an Osprey.

Just by chance, before bringing up newsnet, I tuned in WCT201,
1700 on your AM radio dial. A canned announcement listing all of
the AMES Center gates and the hours they are open under the
present Homeland Security Threat Level Yellow.

JK

In article ,
(Regnirps) wrote:

My old stomping grounds. Your C-141 looks like the old Kuiper infrared
observatory. A school chum of mine spent thousands of hours on that thing
chasing eclipses and such all over the word.

Does the NASA U-2 still take off every morning?

Only rarely, if something interesting is going on, like a major forest
fire.

It must be a lot quiter at the
golf course without the Orions coming in overhead.

I catch myself half-way expecting them to show up, having been off for
some vacation time.

Have to make up, a bit, by seeing the big Antonov in to haul some big
package.

It's a bit of work, but you can check
http://www.flytecomm.com/cgi-bin/trackflight
for planes heading to NUQ. The AN124s show up.
This trick works for any civilian flight to a military base if you
know the three letter abbreviation, i.e. NUQ for Moffet, SUU for
Travis, etc.

Steve Hix wrote in message ...
In article ,
(Regnirps) wrote:

My old stomping grounds. Your C-141 looks like the old Kuiper infrared
observatory. A school chum of mine spent thousands of hours on that thing
chasing eclipses and such all over the word.

Does the NASA U-2 still take off every morning?

Only rarely, if something interesting is going on, like a major forest
fire.

It must be a lot quiter at the
golf course without the Orions coming in overhead.

I catch myself half-way expecting them to show up, having been off for
some vacation time.

Have to make up, a bit, by seeing the big Antonov in to haul some big
package.

On 2 Dec 2003 01:27:03 -0800, (miso) wrote:

http://www.lazygranch.com/nuq.htm
I took a few aerial photos of this federal airfield. The FA18 photo
may be of interest to the group.

The C-141 that you couldn't find much on the Web about is all over the
place. Look for "Kuiper Airborne Observatory". There's a 36"
reflecting telescope just in front of the wing, as you can see.

Mary

--
Mary Shafer Retired aerospace research engineer