1st Air Cavalry Airfield in Iraq

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1st Air Cavalry Airfield in Iraq

Post by grunt1 » Sun Mar 04, 2007 4:03 pm

Stumbled across this very cool satellite imagery. I counted over 50 helicopters. Apaches, Blackhawks and Little Birds...

Make sure to use the bar on the left or the wheel on your mouse to zoom in and out.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q ... 7&t=k&om=1
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Post by blaster_e11 » Mon Mar 05, 2007 1:12 am

it's funny you'd expect such facilities to be blurred for security reasons

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Post by immeww2 » Mon Mar 05, 2007 11:37 am

Quite interesting to view. Thanks for sharing! :D

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Post by Moth » Mon Mar 05, 2007 12:03 pm

blaster_e11 wrote:it's funny you'd expect such facilities to be blurred for security reasons
Yeah, that's strange because Republic Airport in LI NY is blurred, dont know why :?
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Post by blaster_e11 » Mon Mar 05, 2007 1:21 pm

Moth wrote:
blaster_e11 wrote:it's funny you'd expect such facilities to be blurred for security reasons
Yeah, that's strange because Republic Airport in LI NY is blurred, dont know why :?
you don't know why it's blured ? i remember when googleearth was launched, some governments (including the US) asked to blur some areas that may be terrorist targets

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Post by tkjaer21 » Mon Mar 05, 2007 2:44 pm

Check out the link below. it has a lot of cool things. There are many shipyards, boneyards, tankyards, and others.

http://www.intrepidearth.com/tour/07/01 ... .php?loc=3

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Post by Morian Miner » Tue Mar 06, 2007 9:45 pm

Is that base still active? If not, and these photos are a couple years old, then there's no need to blur it out.

Want some fun on these satellite photos? Look around the Nevada Test Site, and find all the wierd airstrips, bombing ranges, and whose knows what they are. Around what they call "Area 19", there's even a railroad line.
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Post by Rowsdower » Mon Apr 09, 2007 10:47 am

I got a plugin for google Earth that shows where pretty much every atomic test was carried out around the globe plus gives some info on it. The Nevada Test Site is HUGE and looking at all the craters from the undergound test is :shock: There is a lot of weird stuff out there.

You can also see where some of the islands in the pacific were vaporized by the tests.
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Post by grunt1 » Mon Apr 09, 2007 7:39 pm

That was pretty interesting. Especially the vela incident (test no one knows who actually did it...).. :)

Found this too: Hawthorne Ammunition Depot. Almost 2,500 individual bunkers!

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_Army_Depot

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http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q ... 3&t=k&om=1
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