34°54'0.47"N 117°52'7.84"W

That will take you to Edwards South Base. The date of the imagery is 7/23, so they must have a time machine. [Remember I said to never trust the dates on Google Earth.]

South Base is interesting from two standpoints, One, it is where they store old planes, which I presume is prior to restoration. Two, it is where the directed energy weapons are tested. The large tank in the image is part of the airborne laser project.

Those are great views, looks like a nice wee private museum there. I see a B1, an F1-11 and what looks like a modified 37.

Nice find Gariac

at the risk of sounding woefully ignorant, what is the significance of what i am looking at?

these are old planes?

and the tank, is it a tank with tracks, or a cylindrical storage unit, or a type of plane?
and where is it.

thanks for bearing with my absolute ignorance ( i don't deny it! )

Cool "space-age plane in that view! Two sets of wings?

On my version of Google Earth it has a marker set by another user that there is an image of the Space shuttle. Anyone else have this marker? Has the shuttle ever been to EAFB?

[edit on 22-7-2010 by sheepslayer247]

The Scaled Composites ATTT at South Base has been there quite a long time. Sadly, it is in very poor condition due to exposure to the weather. The tires are flat and much of the paint has been scoured off by windblown sand. In fact, several of the other aircraft were damaged when they were pushed into each other by strong winds a few years ago.

I was about to say, that ATTT has not flown in a LONG time. I think that plane started test flights in the mid to late 80s.

I would much rather get a chance to see the North Base...

North Base is divided into several sections.

Northwest of the runway is an area that used to include a small rocket engine test site for the NASA jet Propulsion Laboratory and a large building that housed the 18th Space Surveillance Squadron. The JPL site is inactive and the former 18 SPSS building is now headquarters for the 95th Security Forces Squadron.

South of the runway and west of the taxiway are fire station facilities and several historic hangars used for the first jet planes tested in the 1940s. These hangars, recently used as storage for the X-34 vehicles and AFFTC Museum artifacts are being used for Army UAV activities. I once went to a change of command ceremony in one of these hangars that was attended by the commander of Detachment 3, AFFTC, the Operations Group commander from DET 3, and the Special Projects Flight Test Squadron Commander.

The buildings east of the taxiway comprise the secure compound once used by the 6513th Test Squadron "Red Hats" and , later, 413th FLTS. It is now Electronic Warfare Directorate - North Base (there is still a "Red Hats" organization in some form). I have been inside the compound once. Special badges are required and every room has its own coded keypad for access. The Beechcraft commuter planes to Area 51 park on the taxiway adjacent to the compound. The North Base runway is sometimes used for NASA research flights, particularly of small unmanned vehicles.

It's not an assumption. The planes at South Base are in storage for the AFFTC Museum. Every now and then, one of them is restored and placed on permanent display. They get pretty weather beaten down at South Base due to wind and blowing sand.

Originally posted by Shadowhawk
It's not an assumption. The planes at South Base are in storage for the AFFTC Museum. Every now and then, one of them is restored and placed on permanent display. They get pretty weather beaten down at South Base due to wind and blowing sand.

are u sure for that

Pretty cool stuff. Definitely some older planes there. One looks like a C-47, and there's a Canberra or something to the right of it a ways... forgot what the name of it was... the twin engined bomber with the trapezoid-ish wings.

Anyone spot this?
34°55'12.09"N 117°53'31.28"W