To: jazusamo
Best way to understand its size is to look it up on google earth, or similar programs.
CC
6 posted on
02/18/2019 2:19:53 PM PST by
Celtic Conservative
(My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
To: Celtic Conservative; jazusamo
28 posted on
02/18/2019 3:53:50 PM PST by
Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
To: Celtic Conservative
Best way to understand its size is to look it up on google earth, or similar programs.Agreed. You can't get the same perspective on the ground -- it's just too big.
40 posted on
02/18/2019 5:10:05 PM PST by
Fast Moving Angel
(It is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind.)
To: Celtic Conservative
"Best way to understand its size is to look it up on google earth, or similar programs." I have flown over the "boneyard" many years ago on numerous occasions as a civilian pilot. The "heavy metal" aircraft were many as were many fighters. I have a sweet spot for the F4s. I always wanted to fly the F4, but the air force informed me in 1975 the needed no more pilots. I had taken all the tests and was about to go to OCS and then flight school if I passed OCS. They cut the pilot slots in half due to the end of the Vietnam War. I was considered old and they cut the slots in half by age. I was only 26 years old. It really sucked. I went back to the oilfields and made a lot of money and lived a wonderful life.
I would have preferred flying an F4
42 posted on
02/18/2019 5:30:26 PM PST by
cpdiii
( canecutter, deckhand, roughneck, geologist, pilot, pharmacist THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR)
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