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

On Thu, 27 Nov 2008 11:45:38 -0500, Martin Baxter
wrote:


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?

All in the timing.
http://www.gerritsenbeach.net/2008/1...bennett-field/

Vic Smith wrote:
On Thu, 27 Nov 2008 11:45:38 -0500, Martin Baxter
wrote:

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?

All in the timing.
http://www.gerritsenbeach.net/2008/1...bennett-field/


Ah, all becomes clear... thx

Cheers
Martin

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....

In article , Larry wrote:
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.

You've obviously not got everything in GE switched on:

quote
Jidda Island is an islet in Bahrain. It lies to the west of Bahrain
Island and just north of Umm an Nasan. It is connected to Umm an
Nasan by a short causeway.

Jidda used to be the location of one of Bahrain's prisons. Majeed
Marhoon and several other political activists spent time in the
prison in the sixties and seventies.

It later became the private property of Prime Minister Khalifa bin
Salman Al Khalifa and is currently off limits to ordinary citizens.
The island has a number of palaces, gardens, a golf course, two
helipads, a mosque and several other facilities for the personal use
of the Prime Minister.

The island is made of limestone cliffs. It is believed that blocks
of rock cut from the island were used in the Barbar temple on
Bahrain Island.
/quote

The structure at 26, 10'40"N 50, 24'26"E looks like a bunker... maybe a
hangar. The causeway would make a good runway for a plane.

Still, not sure it's a part of the world I'm likely to visit. Too many
'unfriendly' countries. I wouldn't mind visiting Kuwait, UAE, or
Bahrain, but it would be all too easy to stray into Iranian waters... is
Oman a western-friendly place? If not, when you're between both Iran and
Oman you're not anywhere you would want, as either an American or Brit,
to be.

's a shame really, the history to be seen in the region is mind-blowing.
There were well established civilisations there while most of Europe
were still living in mud huts.

Justin.

--
Justin C, by the sea.

Justin C wrote in
:

It later became the private property of Prime Minister Khalifa bin
Salman Al Khalifa and is currently off limits to ordinary
citizens.
The island has a number of palaces, gardens, a golf course, two
helipads, a mosque and several other facilities for the personal
use
of the Prime Minister.

The island is made of limestone cliffs. It is believed that
blocks
of rock cut from the island were used in the Barbar temple on
Bahrain Island.


Hey, thanks! I didn't know whos it was.

Bahrain was a very American-friendly place when I was there before all
these Israeli wars America started for them, made such enemies of us
all. There was little to no strife in the local political scene back in
the 80's I noticed, either. But, that has also changed.

I think Google Earth is still BANNED by the super shieks in Bahrain,
which happened right after Google Earth posted such high definition sat
photos of their inner sanctums for the common Bahraini to drool over.
Banning these types of websites has been done in a lot of totalitarian
countries to prevent the population from snooping around and wondering
why they can't have what "HE" has. I don't think they dropped the ban,
either. I was watching Bahrain on http://mahmood.tv/, a great blogger
with a beautiful garden he's very proud of. But, after being dogged by
the secret society many times, he suddenly told us he was going to
"retire" and "move on" to other things. I think, though he said nothing
of course, someone or something "got to him". His aggressive rhetoric
against the controlling family may have gotten him in too deep. The
website is still there but he doesn't post to it any more. The archives
are a great read about a middle-class Bahraini family. Mahmood is in
the video-TV production business. His pictures and videos are
beautiful. His Flickr website is amazing.

I lived for over 2 years in Tehran and worked for Pan Am Airlines
technical services branch for the Iranian Air Force, building it a new
electronic calibration lab at the local AFB, which was in the
SIGINT/ELINT business. I left in '79 28 days before the Shah fled, fed
up with being awakend by automatic weapons fire at all hours of the
night. Too bad our government makes them hate us. I'd go back to Iran
in a heartbeat to continue my tours of this massive country. The place
is simply HUGE! Americans were a big curiosity when you got out of the
city into the countryside. I knew just enough Farsi to make it
comfortable to get around...."taxi Farsi". My driver, who was 12 at the
time, was my teacher. He was shot by the Iraqis in the stupid war. His
mother's letter telling me was the last one I got from inside Iran.....

Justin C wrote in
:

's a shame really, the history to be seen in the region is mind-
blowing.
There were well established civilisations there while most of Europe
were still living in mud huts.

Justin.


The burial mounds all over Bahrain are most mysterious. In their
national museum is a great model of what is inside them. Also in the
museum, in its own little room, is a tiny Bahraini flag and little "moon
rock" NASA was supposed to have taken to the moon and brought back.
They seem very proud to have had a little piece of it.

The history of Bahrain stares you in the face every time you turn a
corner in the old part of the city where we used to stay at Middle East
Hotel, a cheap hotel a couple of blocks from the Gold Souk...easy
walking distance. 39 dinars a day with a simple restaurant for
breakfast before going to work on the USS La Salle or USS Coronado for
the Charleston Naval Shipyard Tiger Team. We always stayed there and as
repeat business were treated very well, in spite of the spartan
surroundings. I lost one rented Toyota Corolla in their dirt parking
lot outside the hotel kitchen when a sudden storm rained on the desert
island. There are no STREET DRAINS! The place became a LAKE in about
10 minutes! For days huge pumping trucks sucked water out of the
flooded streets, dumping it in the Gulf, I suppose. I still have the
waders I bought, a Bahrain souvenir...(c;

It's been about 20 years, but I'd go back to Bahrain in a heartbeat.
The Bahrainis dared me to go to their tailor shop and have a custom
linen suit of clothes made, then showed me how to dress in it. I
thought they would be offended by my dressing like them. Au contraire!
They stopped me on the street to say how well I was dressed, properly,
even correcting my headgear arrangement to their amusement. "How crazy
you Westerners are to walk around in the hot sun with your head
sunburning.", was said to me several times. The tailor made it all by
hand. I got to watch and be fitted. Then, he dragged me around to the
shops in his part of the souk to show off his handiwork for this
American. I still remember how well I was received.

Damn these wars are ruining a lot of great travel opportunities.

In a gold shop, the Bahraini proprietor who was making a custom gold set
for my wife wanted to look at my wedding band. "Very nicely made.
First Class work!", he exclamed, "But, only 14 carat! Very cheap!"

Thieves broke into my home, opened the satin lined, velvet case his 22K,
hand made, gold filigree jewelry with real Gulf pearls was in. They
opened the case, saw how yellow the real gold was, figured it was fake
and tossed it onto our bed with the other junk they didn't want. It was
the most valuable thing in the house!......

Larry wrote:
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??

Did we bring back Nazi architects to go with the Nazi rocket scientists?

Martin

Martin Baxter wrote in :

Did we bring back Nazi architects to go with the Nazi rocket scientists?

Martin



It's why we won the Cold War. Our Nazis were better than Soviet's
Nazis....

Larry wrote:
Martin Baxter wrote in :

Did we bring back Nazi architects to go with the Nazi rocket scientists?

Martin



It's why we won the Cold War. Our Nazis were better than Soviet's
Nazis....



We couldn't risk a "Nazi gap" in the Ruskie's favour!

Cheers
Martin