Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Area 51. Coordinates: 37°14′0″N 115°48′30″W. Homey Airport. Near Rachel, Lincoln County, Nevada in United States. A satellite image taken in 2022 captured by Sentinel-2 of ESA showing the base with Groom Lake just to the north-northeast. Homey Airport.
Background. The main gate of the Nevada Test and Training Range, colloquially known as Area 51. Area 51 is a common name given to a United States Air Force (USAF) facility in the Nevada Test and Training Range. Opening in 1955, the facility functioned as an aircraft testing and development facility during the Cold War.
Genre. Non-fiction. Published. 2011 (Little Brown) Publication place. United States. ISBN. 978-0-316-19385-6. Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base is a book by American journalist Annie Jacobsen about the secret United States military base Area 51 .
The Tonopah Test Range (TTR, also designated as Area 52) is a highly classified, restricted military installation of the United States Department of Defense, and United States Department of Energy ( nuclear stockpile stewardship) located about 30 miles (48 km) southeast of Tonopah, Nevada. It is part of the northern fringe of the Nellis Range ...
One of the more colorful rumors insists the infamous 1947 Roswell crash was actually a Soviet aircraft piloted by mutated midgets and the wreckage remains on the grounds of Area 51. Some even ...
List of airports with a paved runway at least 4,000 m (13,123 ft) long. / 29.35167°N 89.30694°E / 29.35167; 89.30694 ( Shigatse Peace Airport) / 54.40111°N 48.80278°E / 54.40111; 48.80278 ( Ulyanovsk Vostochny Airport)
Groom Lake is a dry lake, [1] also described as a salt flat, [2] in Nevada.It is used for runways of the Nellis Bombing Range Test Site airport (KXTA). [3] Part of the Area 51 USAF installation, it lies at an elevation of 4,409 ft (1,344 m) [4] and is approximately 3.7 miles (6.0 km) from north to south and 3 miles (4.8 km) from east to west at its widest point, and is approximately 11.3 miles ...
Michael AAF previously had a 13,125-foot (4,000 m) runway which was in poor condition. An FAA airport diagram effective January 2008 shows a 7,000 by 150-foot (46 m) runway (12/30) open parallel to the prior runway, but the diagram effective February 2009 shows a new 11,000 by 150-foot (46 m) runway is open in place of the original runway.