Yeah, th eonly regularly scheduled flights to groom lake are the
"special" 737's that fly from McCarran here. They take work crews there
daily every morning and return them every evening. All white with a red
stripe where the windows are. Lots of them. Area 51 is definitely off
limits. At one time in the near past you could climb a mountain and look
into the facilities from a long way off using a tlescope. Not anymore,
the took the land way out to include that mountain. Only way to look now
is Rusky satellites...
mayf
Dick J wrote:
> Years ago, when I was in the Air Force, I went to Nellis Air Force
> Base with part of my squadron to participate in a Red Flag exercise.
> During the pre-mission briefings, the crews were warned not to overfly
> the restricted area around Groom Lake. During the mission, I got to
> watch the computerized tracking of the flying on a 3-D projection at
> Red Flag Ops. Area 51 was clearly marked on the topographic
> projection with a big red cube. During one air-to-air engagement, one
> of our pilots go too wreckless and clipped a big chunk out of the
> cube. All training was immediately suspended, the planes were
> recalled, and the pilot of that plane, along with our mission
> commander and a couple of staff officers spent a good part of the
> afternoon on the carpet. After that incident, all of the other crews
> were quite respectful of the boundaries of the "No Fly Zone" at area 51.
>
> Dick J
> In East Texas
>
> */drmayf <drmayf@mayfco.com>/* wrote:
>
> John, did you go to Rachel? Did you see the little Ale-inn, visit
> any of
> the book sellers? Did you see the famous Area 51 MAil box? All
> that is
> along the ET highway. But you are correct, nothing can be seen of
> area
> 51 itself unless yo have your own satellite.
>
> mayf
>
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