wsuffa Touchdown! Greaser! Joined Feb 22, 2005 Messages 23,615 Location DC Suburbs Display Name Display name: Bill S. Aug 1, 2010 #1 Y'all will get this easily. This is what the spot looked like in 1956. Attachments Circa_1956.jpg 115 KB · Views: 81
TangoWhiskey Touchdown! Greaser! Joined Feb 23, 2005 Messages 14,210 Location Midlothian, TX Display Name Display name: 3Green Aug 1, 2010 #2 Cape Canaveral would be my guess....
wsuffa Touchdown! Greaser! Joined Feb 22, 2005 Messages 23,615 Location DC Suburbs Display Name Display name: Bill S. Aug 1, 2010 #3 TangoWhiskey said: Cape Canaveral would be my guess.... Click to expand... Nice try, but no. You're a few hundred miles off.
TangoWhiskey said: Cape Canaveral would be my guess.... Click to expand... Nice try, but no. You're a few hundred miles off.
alaskaflyer Final Approach Joined Feb 18, 2006 Messages 7,544 Location Smith Valley, Nevada Display Name Display name: Alaskaflyer Aug 1, 2010 #4 Pretty cool. Sometimes progress ain't everything... Attachments WrightBrothersNationalMonumentLookingOverField.jpg 601.7 KB · Views: 50
ScottM Taxi to Parking Joined Jul 19, 2005 Messages 42,530 Location Variable, but somewhere on earth Display Name Display name: iBazinga! Aug 1, 2010 #5 Too much built up on the coast for Cape Canaveral in my opinion. I am thinking Kitty Hawk.
TangoWhiskey Touchdown! Greaser! Joined Feb 23, 2005 Messages 14,210 Location Midlothian, TX Display Name Display name: 3Green Aug 1, 2010 #6 wsuffa said: Nice try, but no. You're a few hundred miles off. Click to expand... Kitty Hawk was my second guess...
wsuffa said: Nice try, but no. You're a few hundred miles off. Click to expand... Kitty Hawk was my second guess...
wsuffa Touchdown! Greaser! Joined Feb 22, 2005 Messages 23,615 Location DC Suburbs Display Name Display name: Bill S. Aug 1, 2010 #7 Troy, I figured you would have gotten it, you're a great sleuth with these pictures. Here's the same spot in 1970 Attachments Circa_1970.jpg 49.2 KB · Views: 70
Troy, I figured you would have gotten it, you're a great sleuth with these pictures. Here's the same spot in 1970
alaskaflyer Final Approach Joined Feb 18, 2006 Messages 7,544 Location Smith Valley, Nevada Display Name Display name: Alaskaflyer Aug 1, 2010 #8 From the 1930's. Our organization has to have something for the landscape architects to do, I guess.
alaskaflyer Final Approach Joined Feb 18, 2006 Messages 7,544 Location Smith Valley, Nevada Display Name Display name: Alaskaflyer Aug 1, 2010 #9 When I was there last in 2009 I learned that the airport/airstrip wasn't added until the mid-sixties.
When I was there last in 2009 I learned that the airport/airstrip wasn't added until the mid-sixties.
wsuffa Touchdown! Greaser! Joined Feb 22, 2005 Messages 23,615 Location DC Suburbs Display Name Display name: Bill S. Aug 1, 2010 #10 alaskaflyer said: When I was there last in 2009 I learned that the airport/airstrip wasn't added until the mid-sixties. Click to expand... Well, technically, I think we're looking at the original airstrip. I believe you're correct about the paved GA strip on the west side of the monument. I don't think I have any pictures looking in that direction.
alaskaflyer said: When I was there last in 2009 I learned that the airport/airstrip wasn't added until the mid-sixties. Click to expand... Well, technically, I think we're looking at the original airstrip. I believe you're correct about the paved GA strip on the west side of the monument. I don't think I have any pictures looking in that direction.