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Whats the status of the old Vacaville gliderport? I learned to fly
gliders there back in the mid 70's. Looks kinda deserted now... 66 |
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Hey, where's my trailer hanger?
Ken Kochanski (KK) wrote: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=hillto...7703&t=k&hl=en |
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Whats the status of the old Vacaville gliderport? I learned to fly gliders there back in the mid 70's. Looks kinda deserted now... http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=39.15...0940&t=k&hl=en Resolution not so great, but Williams Soaring Center (run by Rex and Noelle Mayes) is adjacent to the rectangular dirt field in upper left quadrant of the image. They were forced out of Lagoon Valley a decade or so ago, due to the "imminent" start of construction on an office park (which never happened). They then moved 10 miles north on I80 to the former Vaca-Dixon airport, but were chased out within a year due to noise complaints. Next they bought Williams Airport (about 45 miles north of Sacramento on I5), and have been there since. Now, if the satellite photo was a bit more recent, it would show housing developments in the large green fields to the west and southwest of the airport, another move is likely within a year or two... http://williamssoaring.com/ Marc |
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World Trade Center?
"Harbin" wrote in message news http://maps.google.com/maps?q=42.426...5525&t=k&hl=en |
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Interesting. I used to fly Citabrias out of Vaca-Dixon; I mainly
remember a short strip with I-80 at one end (short final over a semi is fun!) and trees/powerlines at the other. Must have been sporting towing gliders out of there! 66 |
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At 07:00 12 April 2005, John Leibacher wrote:
I have added links to the Google satellite maps in the 'Worldwide Soaring Turnpoint Exchange' [ http://soaring.aerobatics.ws ], as well as Google's road maps, Rand McNally's road maps and - most useful of all for the landoutacholics - driving instructions from the home 'drom to the turnpoints and other waypoints for all of the US sites [I'll install a little form for your crew to enter your lat/lon if you don't make it to an airport, 'shortly']. The links are G and g for the Google maps and satellite images, R and r for the Rand McNally maps and driving. VERY cool - though I can't find the 'D' links for driving directions. Would be great to have this available at the retrieve office at every contest... well at least at every contest with broadband on the airport... oh, never mind. Nice job John. 9B |
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Andy Blackburn wrote:
VERY cool - though I can't find the 'D' links for driving directions. Would be great to have this available at the retrieve office at every contest... well at least at every contest with broadband on the airport... oh, never mind. I can't find any of them. Can you give me directions or a direct link? -- Change "netto" to "net" to email me directly Eric Greenwell Washington State USA |
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At 14:30 15 April 2005, Eric Greenwell wrote:
I can't find any of them. Can you give me directions or a direct link? http://soaring.xinqu.net/TP/Ephrata/control_points.html For you - personalized service - Ephrata...remember to scroll down. It's in the actual control points file/link. 9B |
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