11-23-2008, 01:58 PM
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Yea man!, We're takin a REAL pilot there!, I was there that airstrip is for Cessnas, and thats a Big Airforce Tanker. All I can say is he was good!
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11-23-2008, 03:40 PM
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So did they actually use the plane's carcass to house the restaurant? Or is the building next to it the restaurant, and the plane is ornamental/tourism?
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11-23-2008, 04:06 PM
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I think they gave up on it, that building I belive is a Lands End outlet store, It's been quite a while since I went there and the airport in closed/abandoned so you can't fly there anymore (too many crashes), at the left of the map veiw youl see a path of what looks like trees, thats really a ravine. The runway sloped DOWNHILL!!!!. Lets just say it was "challenging". Electric power lines next to the road at the other end.
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11-23-2008, 04:17 PM
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I wonder what they served inside a military plane for food.... K-rations? C-rations? LOL. No wonder the restaurant failed!
./sarcasm -off
I can tell from the map view that the runway looks to be a barren strip of land... almost looks like it's been populated by a trailer park... can't really make out what the little "buildings" to the immediate sides are.
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I'd like to think that people might open their eyes at some point... instead, I find it more and more likely that I'll just close mine.
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Je ne veux pas d'une meilleure vie. Je veux être heureux avec celle que j'ai maintenant.
(I do not want a better life. I want to be happy with the one I have now.)
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11-23-2008, 06:09 PM
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Ya I think it's just junk. I can't remmember if it was paved or not but I think I have and old Cicago Sectional laying around I'll look
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11-23-2008, 06:21 PM
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11-23-2008, 06:23 PM
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and here's a pic, isn't she a beauty. If you guys like I can figure out the fuel burn
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11-23-2008, 06:30 PM
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The runway sloped DOWNHILL!!!!. Lets just say it was "challenging". Electric power lines next to the road at the other end
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Notice it says the threshold of runway 30 is 85ft higher than runway 12, meaning thats how much pitch downhill it was. A real bear to get in man!
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11-23-2008, 10:45 PM
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heh.. I'd just like to get ahold of an old airstrip around here to open a better drag strip... nothing around here is a pleasant sighting.
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I'd like to think that people might open their eyes at some point... instead, I find it more and more likely that I'll just close mine.
-- Author kept secret.
Je ne veux pas d'une meilleure vie. Je veux être heureux avec celle que j'ai maintenant.
(I do not want a better life. I want to be happy with the one I have now.)
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11-24-2008, 12:35 AM
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Ah but thats where your wrong my friend, 59 miles away from you there is one, and it's still there
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