(Tikaboo Peak at Area 51) R.I.P.
Posted on 01/09/2013 7:41:15 PM PST by DogByte6RER
(Tikaboo Peak at Area 51) R.I.P.
More references and photos at ...
Urban Ghosts - Top Secret Tombs: The Classified Stealth Aircraft Burial Grounds of Area 51
The mysterious Area 51 graveyards where secret military technologies go to die
http://io9.com/5974678/the-mysterious-graveyards-where-secret-military-technologies-go-to-die
Graveyards of a different sort ...
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Believe it or not Carter approved this project.
But you couldn't keep your mouths shut. The Alpha Centaureans warned us about humans. But we just HAD to try to help.
Well, you are on you own. And that stupidity ray we sprayed on 51% of the USA electorate is off the table as well.
You could have had a paradise...
You mean ... it's a COOKBOOK!?!
>>You mean ... it’s a COOKBOOK!?!<<
You weren’t supposed to know about that either. These aren’t the droids you are looking for... This thread never happened...
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I find it harder to believe this part of the story:
In addition to burial sites, there’s another top secret facility at Groom Lake for mothballed projects. Known as Dyson’s Dock, it is said to be housed in the lower bay of Hangar 18 and may be a sort of classified museum, where base workers can view retired aircraft that have not been publicly unveiled.
If old projects are buried, presumably for security, why are some on display for those who are sworn to keep quiet?
It seems, if they exist, that they would more likely not be retired projects but ones in extended storage with the presumption that they still have some usefulness.
wait a second... they mothballed the f-117 fleet? wtf
i’m 100% certain b.gen allen is spinning in his grave
Ping to LucyT.
Why we retired the F-117As is beyond me. They were still very good airplanes. No doubt maintaining them was difficult. We should have put them in the Air National Guard in western states the place of a couple of F-16 squadrons.
Not quite a Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping, but possibly of interest to members of that ping list...
Not quite a Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping, but possibly of interest to members of that ping list...
Why?? For the same reason we retired the F-14s and A6-E’s, to make room for new procurement. Procurement officers don’t make rank and find post military jobs, and contractors don’t get fat new contracts when we keep planes to the end of their service life.
F-14s are still unequalled in the Navy. The Super Hornet is far less capable. It’s almost helpless against a Sukhoi. The F-35 is even worse.
The A6-E carried a tremendous bomb load, equal to almost a third of a B52. It could fly out 2800 miles with a good load. The Super Hornet struggles to go 400. And we built brand new A6-Es right up until the day they retired. Several others were like new after being rewinged. BUt the Navy wanted to get rid of them fast to make way for the planned A-12.
Took almost new ones and sunk them off Florida to make a diving reef.
The F-15 is undefeated, and we are dumping them for a tiny force of F-22s and a few more moonpig F-35s
Don't get me started on the F-14, especially the F-14D. When fully tricked out with LANTIRN, the Navy finally got a true multi-role, all-weather fighter/bomber that could go full air-to-air for fleet defense and also drop precision munitions like the Intruder.
Back in the day I participated a military exercise with some F-14Ds. Their capability was unreal.
Then the powers that be dumped it.
What a tremendous waste.
But where are the alien space craft being kept? Wait til Jesse Ventura gets ahold of this!
“In August 1989 engineer Chris Gibson, a trained aircraft recognition expert with the Royal Observer Corps, witnessed a mysterious, highly swept triangle-shaped aircraft while working on the oil rig GSF Galveston Key in the North Sea. The aircraft was accompanied by two F-111 bombers and appeared to be refueling from a KC-135 Stratotanker in an area of sky designated for such activity. “
I remember reading about this sighting in a speculative book about the Aurora aircraft quite a few years ago.
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