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Posted By:
Hal Brown
Date Posted:
Oct 24, 2005
Description:
Right smack in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay is Tangier Island, a dry place with more than 15 miles of water on all sides and a few hundred permanant residents whose accent has hints of Elizabethan England. Carol and I flew there, taking care to hook around a Restricted area R-6609 that lies just to the west of the island.
This is looking north.
Date Taken:
Oct 24, 2005
Place Taken:
Chesapeake Bay
Owner:
Don Maxwell
File Name:
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Kenneth Leonard - Oct 24,2005
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So Don, why is it restricted?
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Don Maxwell - Oct 24,2005
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Ken, R-6609 is only the half of it. R-4006 is directly above the island--3500' to FL249. Pawtuxant NAS appears to use them for bombing practice, experimental UAVs, and who knows whatall. It's almost as annoying as the DC ADIZ.
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Frank A. Carr - Oct 30,2005
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Don,<br />Tangier was one of our favorite places to visit by plane or boat when we lived in Cold Country Maryland. It's now all grown up with golf carts, tourists, and multiple places to 'eat'. Used to be only Hilda Crocketts Boarding house for family meals; the only choices on the menu were to come in and eat or not.<br />I thought the restricted area was only to the West--out over the water--and the Navy has used it for years to bomb and straff a couple of sunken ships in the Bay.
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