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Martin Baxter wrote in :


I was playing around with Google Earth and happened to zoom in on Floyd
Bennett field in Brooklyn. It looks like a Concorde is parked on the
apron nearest the sports fields.

Is this the final resting place for one of the Concorde fleet?

Cheers
Martin


Martin, while you're fooling around with Google Earth, tell it to go to
Coronado, California, where the Navy Base sticks out from just SE of the
Coronado Google Earth mark. The ships are on the NW side of this base.

Look at the cluster of buildings and what they look like centered on:
32-40-33.98N by 117-09-27.76W. It really shows up well from space...(c;]

Just a coincidence?? Who knows??

There are an incredible number of these odd "symbols" across the planet
you'd see if you were just coming in from another world.....

Now, tell Google Earth to go to "Manama, Bahrain" in the Arabian Gulf.

Between Bahrain and Saudi Arabia is a big causeway connecting the two
kingdoms. Off the side of the causeway is a little piece of prime real
estate mere mortals will never be invited to at:
26-11-37.33W by 50-24-13.40E
a private little island, obviously not a trailer park. I don't know who it
belongs to, but it's not the Amir's, which is up the W coast of the main
island. The "house", the size of your state capital, is on the beach in
the SW corner. On the East end, you'll see a circular marina with "a few
little boats" tied up to their own piers. The 4 little boats are about
30' according to Google Earth's measuring stick and the big one is a 50.
Nice little place to relax with its own little marina club with swimming
pool. They also have quite a nice orchard, probably olives.

I've been to Bahrain for the US Navy a few times. What a great place.
They make 22K Gold jewelry in little side street shops off the Gold Souk,
in the central market....and you can go in and watch if you ask...(c;

For a few bucks extra, you can ride around in a Rolls Royce taxi cab....

 
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