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Stealth bomber on Google maps.
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The stealth bomber's exterior isn't classified any more, they've been shown publicly. Why should they care if 16x16 pixels of it exist online?
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Originally Posted by tooki
The stealth bomber's exterior isn't classified any more, they've been shown publicly. Why should they care if 16x16 pixels of it exist online?
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Wouldn't satellite photos of an Air Force base or B-2 manufacturing plant be classified?
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Originally Posted by GSixZero
The SR-71 is still my favourite jet of all time.
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Originally Posted by Spliff
The SR-71 is still my favourite jet of all time.
I prefer this for pure coolness, also it doesn't require a Kilometer long runway to take off 
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Originally Posted by Spliff
Wouldn't satellite photos of an Air Force base or B-2 manufacturing plant be classified?
Nah, everyone knows where airforce bases are already, they're even printed on the rand mcnally.
Here's area 51 -> link
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Here are two more SR-71's. You can actually walk up and touch these.
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=andrew...;t=k&hl=en
Many years ago, when I walked into a dark hanger and almost bumped into one, I almost got shot. The SR-71 landed at my base and taxied into the hanger in the middle of the night, because of bad weather at its home base.
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Originally Posted by Buckaroo
Here are two more SR-71's. You can actually walk up and touch these.
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=andrew...;t=k&hl=en
Many years ago, when I walked into a dark hanger and almost bumped into one, I almost got shot. The SR-71 landed at my base and taxied into the hanger in the middle of the night, because of bad weather at its home base.
They still fly those?
I though they had stopped the project or something.
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Originally Posted by moonmonkey
They still fly those?
I though they had stopped the project or something.
I thought they started it back up. Ya know, for Iraq and what not.
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I believe the only flying sR-71's belong to NASA. The Air Force hasn't flown one in many years.
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The SR-71s (as far as I know) are HUGE wastes of fuel. Because of the massive temperature differences of the SR-71 when flying and not flying, it is leaking fuel through it's shell during take off and has to refuel almost immediately in air so that it can continue it's mission.
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You can look at most military bases, as well as most nuclear power plants. the images are not in real time, so they are not of any strategic benefit.
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Originally Posted by iDriveX
The SR-71s (as far as I know) are HUGE wastes of fuel. Because of the massive temperature differences of the SR-71 when flying and not flying, it is leaking fuel through it's shell during take off and has to refuel almost immediately in air so that it can continue it's mission.
You're totally right, but I don't think that would stop the military from using them just for that. Apparently they cost $50,000 an hour to run.
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Originally Posted by Spliff
The SR-71 is still my favourite jet of all time.
ditto 
I heard some stories (doubt they're true though) that the soviets didn't even bother trying to shoot these down when they flew over CCCP airspace.
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Originally Posted by Buckaroo
Here are two more SR-71's. You can actually walk up and touch these.
There's a museum in AZ with one, and they had it set up so I could actually touch the nacelle of the right engine..... the jet black tip was held in place with ONE freakin phillips screw. Too bad I didn't have my leatherman or I'd have the coolest keychain of all time.
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Originally Posted by Buckaroo
Look just above, and to the left, of the SR-71's. It looks like an old U-2 spy plane.
And which Andrews AF Base is that? It certainly isn't the one here in suburban MD where the President flies into.
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Originally Posted by Buckaroo
Here are two more SR-71's. You can actually walk up and touch these.
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=andrew...;t=k&hl=en
Many years ago, when I walked into a dark hanger and almost bumped into one, I almost got shot. The SR-71 landed at my base and taxied into the hanger in the middle of the night, because of bad weather at its home base.
Isn't that a U-2 behind them?
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Originally Posted by GSixZero
That's Edwards Air Force Base, not Andrews Air Force Base. The SR-71s are parked at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center.
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Andrews?
NO.
It's in Palmdale, CA. Approx. 20 miles from the other 2 SR-71's that were parked in the first post.
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Originally Posted by chabig
That's Edwards Air Force Base, not Andrews Air Force Base. The SR-71s are parked at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center.
Chris
What's with the giant compass directions incised into the desert?
That thing has got to be several miles across?
Is that for really high altitude flying or the space shuttle or what?
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Originally Posted by Wiskedjak
Isn't that a U-2 behind them?
I see nothing there that looks like a U-2.
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Originally Posted by Buckaroo
Andrews?
NO.
It's in Palmdale, CA. Approx. 20 miles from the other 2 SR-71's that were parked in the first post.
The search field in your link says andrews airforce base.
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Originally Posted by Wiskedjak
what's that ??
looks like al multi-million-dollar-with-many-tons-of-metal-that-could-be-recycled-but-instead-it-just-lies-there aircraft boneyard ....
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That was because it was in GSixZero search. I just panned over too where I knew the other 2 SR-71's were located. I guess GSixZero's original search was for Andrews AFB, or whatever.
Anyhow, no, it is located up in Palmdale, CA.
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This is an U2 (and it's shadow). You can find some more, and a retired Blackbird on the right side of the base.
Oh, and try www.googlesightseeing.com
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Go to the Boeing museum in Seattle - there's an SR-71 in the main exhibit. Also Kennedy's Air Force 1, and one of the Apollo capsules. Pretty cool.
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Originally Posted by fhoubi
This is an U2 (and it's shadow). You can find some more, and a retired Blackbird on the right side of the base.
Oh, and try www.googlesightseeing.com
Great site.
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It's probably a TR-1, the replacement to the U2.
The YF12a is even more rare, and I think it's still at Moffat field next to Ames Research Center - inside the blimp hangar.
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Originally Posted by Gee4orce
Go to the Boeing museum in Seattle - there's an SR-71 in the main exhibit. Also Kennedy's Air Force 1, and one of the Apollo capsules. Pretty cool.
The Boeing Museum of Flight http://www.museumofflight.org/ also has an SR-71 cockpit for the kids, one Concorde SST, and my personal favorite Darkstar (known to the builders as LOBO). sam
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Originally Posted by Wiskedjak
Where is that??
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I would love to know as well. It looks like a plane graveyard. Extremely cool.
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Originally Posted by Jim Paradise
Where is that??
Switch from satellite to map, then zoom out. It's Tucson.
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Originally Posted by JoshuaZ
I would love to know as well. It looks like a plane graveyard. Extremely cool.
I'm surprised it looks so neat and orderly. Maybe it's one of those facilities were you can go cannabilize parts from the retired aircraft to get your unit's planes working. Military has those kinds of sites 
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If you are able to get clearance and head out to Holloman AFB in New Mexico, they have a great plane boneyard, complete with the entire front section of the Space Shuttle Enterprise that was used to test the feasability of the Shuttle Fleet.
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Originally Posted by Sarc
what's that ??
looks like al multi-million-dollar-with-many-tons-of-metal-that-could-be-recycled-but-instead-it-just-lies-there aircraft boneyard ....
Pretty much. I think most of those planes fall into two categories.
1) They're makes/models of planes that are still in service, but post-cold war, we don't need to maintain the fleets of airplanes that we once built. Now they're down in the dry desert for storage. At some point they could be called back into service or scavenged for parts to keep the current fleet flying.
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2) Old retired planes which are too expensive to recycle
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