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While playing around with Google Earth, I tried to take a look at the "Mile of Tanks" at Aberdeen, MD - unfortunately, the high-res imagery stops just short of the display area. Did better with the new Yahoo Maps overhead imagery (maps.yahoo.com) and remembering that B-29 and other hulks remained at Aberdeen for a long time, scrolled around trying to find anything interesting. Which I did, in an area just off Phillips AAF


Starting out at the "top":

http://maps.yahoo.com/#q1=aberdeen%2C+m ... 8547&mag=1
I take these to be a group of A-7s with a single F-8?

Further down:

http://maps.yahoo.com/#q1=aberdeen%2C+m ... 5094&mag=1
T-28s plus a Douglas-looking 4-engined transport C-118? plus 2 F-8s? (one missing a tail) and an F-101?

http://maps.yahoo.com/#q1=aberdeen%2C+m ... 3106&mag=1
group of A-7s & F-4s? plus C-130, F-15s? + T-33?

http://maps.yahoo.com/#mvt=s&q1=aberdee ... 2518&mag=1
Fuselages?

http://maps.yahoo.com/#mvt=s&q1=aberdee ... 0795&mag=1
helo

http://maps.yahoo.com/#mvt=h&q1=aberdee ... 0356&mag=1
Cheyenne??

http://maps.yahoo.com/#mvt=s&q1=aberdee ... 9817&mag=1
Now here's something that struck my old eyes as maybe exotic - I read these as possible MiG-21s, although that's open to interpretation, of course.

Live Local has older lower-res BW imagery of the area, which seems to show it was more occupied at one point in time...this showed a couple of bright "blobs" in the woods between this area and the airfield which might have been something aeronautical..the one kinda looked B57-ish but that was probably my mind making it fit a silhouette...

Perhaps someone knows more about the present residents...looks interesting.

One can only wonder what was dumped in the lakes there over the years

Chris
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Interesting stuff. Thanks for posting it.

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