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The great graveyards in Mojave and surrounding areas
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I live in San Diego, and I am planning to spend a weekend spotting some planes and taking insane amounts of pictures at one of the big moth-ball sites. I have called both Victorville and Mojave airports, and they didnt really want to help me. What to do? Stand around the fences? Does anyone know which site is the best when it comes to plane-variety as well as ease of access. I understand that I will not be up close, but where can I get the closest? Thanks, David |
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AA81 wrote: I live in San Diego, and I am planning to spend a weekend spotting some planes and taking insane amounts of pictures at one of the big moth-ball sites. They were designed to be visible from space (to support verification by other parties to the arms reduction treaties) and they show up nicely on sites like Terraserver. I know at least one of those space imaging sites had a bunch of quick links to stuff like that. -- Ben Jackson http://www.ben.com/ |
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"AA81" wrote in message om... Hey, I live in San Diego, and I am planning to spend a weekend spotting some planes and taking insane amounts of pictures at one of the big moth-ball sites. I have called both Victorville and Mojave airports, and they didnt really want to help me. What to do? Stand around the fences? Does anyone know which site is the best when it comes to plane-variety as well as ease of access. I understand that I will not be up close, but where can I get the closest? Victorville has a guard to stop you, but you can drive right on to Mojave airport. |
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AA81 wrote:
Hey, I live in San Diego, and I am planning to spend a weekend spotting some planes and taking insane amounts of pictures at one of the big moth-ball sites. /snip/ David, Not exactly in your back yard, but Roswell, NM, and Kingman, AZ are a couple of other accessible graveyards. Happy Flying! Scott Skylane |
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Ben Jackson wrote:
In article , AA81 wrote: I live in San Diego, and I am planning to spend a weekend spotting some planes and taking insane amounts of pictures at one of the big moth-ball sites. They were designed to be visible from space (to support verification by other parties to the arms reduction treaties) and they show up nicely on sites like Terraserver. I know at least one of those space imaging sites had a bunch of quick links to stuff like that. Yeah, terraserver had that. You have to use http://www.terraserver-usa.com or http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com in order to get the free stuff. But yeah, there is a "famous places" link, and one of them shows a B-52 in the icon - I forget the name they used though, but it's an easy find. Zoom out a little and see how big it is. -- --x _x | CJ Chitwood | | |_|___ _ _ ____x | Unregistered Linux User # 18,000,002 | |_| | , | | |\ \/ | |____|_|_|_|___|/\_\ | Sink the ship to reply by e-mail |
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AA81 wrote:
Hey, I live in San Diego, and I am planning to spend a weekend spotting some planes and taking insane amounts of pictures at one of the big moth-ball sites. I have called both Victorville and Mojave airports, and they didnt really want to help me. Go to Tuscon. Visit the Pima Air Museum. Pay the extra $6.00 to go on the AMARC bus tour. Rows and Rows of B52s, C141s, A10s, F4s, OV10, C5A, KC135, OA2s, etc. Cameras welcome. Pinal Air Park, run by Evergreen (CIA?) about 40 mi NW of Tuscon has lots of unused commercial airliners including lots of 747s. They dont like cameras. MikeM |
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MikeM wrote:
AA81 wrote: Hey, I live in San Diego, and I am planning to spend a weekend spotting some planes and taking insane amounts of pictures at one of the big moth-ball sites. I have called both Victorville and Mojave airports, and they didnt really want to help me. Go to Tuscon. Visit the Pima Air Museum. Pay the extra $6.00 to go on the AMARC bus tour. Rows and Rows of B52s, C141s, A10s, F4s, OV10, C5A, KC135, OA2s, etc. Cameras welcome. Pinal Air Park, run by Evergreen (CIA?) about 40 mi NW of Tuscon has lots of unused commercial airliners including lots of 747s. They dont like cameras. MikeM Have you ever been in PAP? We've tried several times to get in but they dont so 'tours'. And as the airframes are still 'live'.. meaning usable, just parked to reduce the fleets, it's a security matter. We come over D-M and Marana everyday on the arrival from Mexico. TJ, B757FO ================================================== ======================= The only time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire. |
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I fly pattern work at Mojave all the time, it's a popular spot because
of the great crosswinds. I would chance just going there and talking to someone in the tower after you've landed, it's always seemed fairly low key up there. KVCV on the other hand still has military transports flying from there, I could see how they would be a little more fussy. Greg (AA81) wrote in message . com... Hey, I live in San Diego, and I am planning to spend a weekend spotting some planes and taking insane amounts of pictures at one of the big moth-ball sites. I have called both Victorville and Mojave airports, and they didnt really want to help me. What to do? Stand around the fences? Does anyone know which site is the best when it comes to plane-variety as well as ease of access. I understand that I will not be up close, but where can I get the closest? Thanks, David |
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