On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 11:28:13 -0800 (PST), "miso@sushi.com"
<miso@sushi.com> wrote:

On Nov 27, 7:41 pm, Desert Shadow <a51to...@aol.com> wrote:

Interesting slide show.  Found this on another site.

http://profile.imageshack.us/user/greatguess

If you look at the hangars at Creech, they put a pile of UAVs in one
large hangar. In the days when I did the SGTs at Travis, it was one
plane per hangar due to the size of the planes. [SGT is the self
guided tour. Prior to 9/11, you would register at the shack to go to
the museum, but well get lost on your way to the museum.] So you can't
tell much about what goes in a hangar from the outside. Due to the
height of the hangar, I suspect they can do a bit of assembly inside
it with overhead cranes. If the planes in the hangar aren't flown to
Groom in the early AM from Palmdale, then they would need to have the
wings attached once shipped to Groom. I like how the office area is
set up not to face the base. If it has any windows, they would face
Tikaboo. The hangar is so far away from the rest of the base that you
wonder if it is not staffed by military but rather by a contractor
like Lockheed, Northrup, etc.

         In 1947 we stood AT-6s on their nose (carefully) to get more
in the hangers on a windy day.

         I have been reading the book by Ben Rich and Leo Janos trying
to see if my patent application had any bearing on implementation or
production changes (like the 1983 pause), but the dates are amazingly
inconsistent, the first line about a visit by a vip in August 1979 seems
impossible if Have Blue #2 crashed in July.

         My original application (December 1978 serial number) was
accessed by 4 different Air Force people in addition to the other
defense agencies.

         My May 1977 paper number 11 in the airfoil application only
mentioned flat surfaces because I felt that fast implementation was
more important than a mature knowledge of the technology than
I wanted to put in the Electronic Avoidance Configurations
application.

KEF