| Subject: Re: Aircraft part found near Tikaboo Peak |
| From: "miso@sushi.com" <miso@sushi.com> |
| Date: 01/11/2010, 06:39 |
| Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.area51,rec.aviation.military |
On Oct 31, 11:35 pm, "m...@sushi.com" <m...@sushi.com> wrote:
On Oct 31, 10:03 pm, frank <dhssresearc...@netscape.net> wrote:
On Oct 30, 9:54 pm, "m...@sushi.com" <m...@sushi.com> wrote:
On Oct 30, 3:40 pm, "Steven P. McNicoll" <roncach...@writeme.com>
wrote:
m...@sushi.com wrote:
http://www.lazygranch.com/images/misc/tikaboo_aircraft_part.jpg
I found this part on a ridge near Tikaboo Peak, which as most people
know is in the Nellis AFB range and very remote. The color looks like
what was used on the F-4s around the range. While it may appear to be
a random piece of screen, note that it has a spot welded connector to
it and a wire, presumably to ground it. The nearest crash site is
several miles away, so I assume this is something that fell off a
plane.
I was an F-4 maintenance troop in the USAF. It was a long time ago and
there are many parts of the airplane I never dug into, nobody got into every
area. I have no idea what this thing is, but it just doesn't look like an
aircraft part to me. Aircraft hardware tends to have a look of high quality
and this just doesn't seem to have it.
Given the location, I can't think it would be anything else. The area
is in the Nelis range. The area is uninhabited. On a summit, you don't
get parts being washed down from rain, nor would the wind blow the
part there.. It has the right color paint for one thing. Parts of this
crash have that color:http://www.lazygranch.com/f466227.htm
I generally don't take crash parts since I like to leave something for
someone else to find, but I did take a small gear from the A12 crash
site near the Meadow Valley wash. It looks like a small gear with a
bit of rust on it. Could be from a camera. If it wasn't from the crash
site, you would never know it. I think I blew about $500 or so finding
that crash given that I ruined a tire, so I didn
t feel too guilty taking a tiny piece.
Parts from the A-12 don't look so sexy either:http://www.lazygranch.com/h4h4928_4.htm
Hate to tell you this, but if its a really secret bird, they do take
great care to pick everything up then leave a bunch of just junk. I
seem to recall a T bird pile of crap being left one time.
Ranges generate an incredible amount of scrap.
You can never get every piece of a crash. I've seen sites where
"shrapnel" of the plane is hanging from trees some distance from the
crash. I have the CIA report on that A-12 crash. Though they searched
on horseback, the cameras were never recovered. Bits and pieces of a
crash are hopeless to totally clean up. The debris fields are often
miles wide.
Everything on this page is what remained after the USAF did a clean
up:http://www.lazygranch.com/f15d_85_0131.htm
They cleared out, though the drums were not picked up yet.
Compare the green color in the TIkaboo Peak item and the F-15 items:
http://www.lazygranch.com/images/f15d_85_0131/f15_e.jpg
http://www.lazygranch.com/images/misc/tikaboo_aircraft_part.jpg
