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I'll bet if you knew where to look on Google Earth, the desert boneyards are full of them. I don't have GE on this computer, but Marana Air Park just off I-10 about 20mi N of TUS toward PHX, is a likely place.

True - I was just shocked to see a non-FedEx one on the takeoff roll from BNA.

ConciergeMike

Sep 12, 2009 1:15 pm

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Originally Posted by xFF (Post 12370179)

Marana is still, IIRC, the home of the joint-service HALO/HAHO skydiving school. I remember reading the Dick Marcinko book in which he told the story behind the characters in the fictional Rogue Warrior series, and some of his SEALs once had to find a guy in the desert who had a chute failure and pack his body into a vehicle loaded with ice to get him in for postmortem care.

gbryan84

Sep 12, 2009 1:19 pm

I just got bored and opened a chase business and personal checking for 50k CO miles. Im also glad I waited as they count toward the mileathon but I had to move back to the US to join the mileathon. Now I dont feel so worthless today:D

xFF	Sep 12, 2009 1:25 pm

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Originally Posted by ConciergeMike (Post 12370187)

SDF-LAX-ANC-HKG and back.

ANC really got screwed by Russia opening up Siberian airspace and putting great circle back to the routes. Before that, just about everybody, it seemed, had to stop in ANC, except for like SFO-Japan.

icurhere2

Sep 12, 2009 1:28 pm

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Originally Posted by gbryan84 (Post 12370211)

Im also glad I waited as they count toward the mileathon but I had to move back to the US to join the mileathon. Now I dont feel so worthless today:D

Speaking of Mileathon - is it just me or does the GE award package (BF luxury trip to Shanghai) seem more exciting that the PE award package (BF luxury trip to Paris)?

xFF	Sep 12, 2009 1:29 pm

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Originally Posted by ConciergeMike (Post 12370199)

Marana is still, IIRC, the home of the joint-service HALO/HAHO skydiving school.

Marana is very interesting, and worth Googling. Evergreen (the CIA proprietary) was there, the field manager at one time was the guy who directed air cover for the Bay of Pigs invasion, there is currently an ANG or reserve operation there, the special ops connection you mention. And lots and lots of off the books airframes parked just a little ways away in case a couple of planes might be needed to, say, fight fires in Honduras.

Brituchenite

Sep 12, 2009 1:33 pm

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Originally Posted by Steve GadFly (Post 12370160)

...... I always make sure that my F seat is an aisle just so she won't want it :D

:eek: :p

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Originally Posted by xFF (Post 12370179)

I saw this place a few years ago. Hundres of aircraft just sitting there in rows. Pretty impressive site.

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:-:@:-)@:-)@:-)@:-):-: I'm now earning 0 miles practicing for that situation by drinking wine on the sofa.

:D:D

icurhere2

Sep 12, 2009 2:01 pm

I'm going home to take a nap.

Plus1

Sep 12, 2009 2:09 pm

So I am updating the maps on baglady's replacement Garmin GPS for the one I lost :( and am 486MB into it.

That's a whopping 24% completed. Windows reports only 10 more hours to go. :rolleyes:

icurhere2

Sep 12, 2009 2:15 pm

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Originally Posted by Plus1 (Post 12370353)

That's a whopping 24% completed. Windows reports only 10 more hours to go. :rolleyes:

Didn't you spend days updating another appliance recently? If it was the original Garmin, I would indeed be :rolleyes: at the moment and asking AmEx to replace it with something else.

colpuck

Sep 12, 2009 2:16 pm

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The UT game is sucking.

colpuck

Sep 12, 2009 2:20 pm

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Ok it is time to fire Greg Davis.

icurhere2

Sep 12, 2009 2:21 pm

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The UT game is sucking.

Both UT games are 3-0 affairs at the moment.

icurhere2

Sep 12, 2009 2:27 pm

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Ok it is time to fire Greg Davis.

I can also say that neither UT seems destined to be ranked number 2 in the nation based upon their accomplishments thus far today.

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