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Posted By:
Hal Brown
Date Posted:
Mar 30, 2009
Description:
Furnace Creek Airstrip (L06) at Death Valley National Park. The square green area is the Furnace Creek Ranch/Lodge with all amenities, pool, golf, restaurant & bar. To the right of the green square is the museum and tent camping area, which is about .5 mile walk from the ramp.
Date Taken:
Mar 30, 2009
Place Taken:
L06
Owner:
John Spratt
File Name:
0924Airport.jpg - Photo HTML
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Category:
225, Searey Suitable Destinations,
302, Sierra Seareys
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Read what others had to say:
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Prior James - Mar 30,2009
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Nice photo John, what is your altitude in this picture?
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John Spratt - Mar 30,2009
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Somewhere between 2000 and 3000 AGL, as the floor of the overlying MOA is 3000 AGL and the park service prefers airplanes to be above 2000 AGL within the park. The MOA is 'joint use', so the military controller will provide a squawk and provide traffic advisories Mon-Fri when the MOA is in use. The 3 days we were there, the evening's entertainment was the night aerial refueling overhead with a tanker orbiting for hours and several fighters coming up for gas.
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Don Maxwell - Mar 31,2009
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John, what's in that big, dark rectangle? Sewage?
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John Spratt - Mar 31,2009
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Solar panels. The park has gone 'green'. The sewage ponds are the two rectangles on the far side of the runway beneath my pontoon.
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Don Maxwell - Mar 31,2009
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Ha! My first thought was that it looked like a big solar panel, but that seemed so unlikely that I settled for sewage--which was about what that guess was worth. Anyway, all that regularity seems so man-made-ly bizarre.<br /><br />Wallace Stevens wrote this about a similar phenomon:<br /><br /><br /> Anecdote of the Jar<br /><br />I placed a jar in Tennessee,<br />And round it was, upon a hill.<br />It made the slovenly wilderness<br />Surround that hill.<br /><br />The wilderness rose up to it,<br />And sprawled around, no longer wild.<br />The jar was round upon the ground<br />And tall and of a port in air.<br /><br />It took dominion every where.<br />The jar was gray and bare.<br />It did not give of bird or bush,<br />Like nothing else in Tennessee. <br /><br /><br />(Ack! Was Stevens nuts? Possibly. He was a lawyer who became a vice president of The Hartford insurance company. Also won a Pulitzer for poetry. It's amusing to think what he might have written about planting rhombuses in the desert.)<br />
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