Awesome Driving On Old Airfield

Wed Nov 26, 2008 5:32 pm

I like the hangar shots. Wonder what base this was...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs-jAImScms

Sun Nov 30, 2008 12:42 pm

Accordin' to the site below, it was the old El Toro MCAS:

http://www.autoblog.com/2008/11/12/vide ... -them-all/

Sun Nov 30, 2008 4:46 pm

That makes sense, I could read "HMM" and a series of numbers on the floor of the hangar he does donuts in. Sad that you can't afford to rent a hangar anywhere in California and those giants are sitting empty.

Scott

Mon Dec 01, 2008 9:32 am

I have a ton of pictures from MCAS El Toro if anyone is interested.

Mon Dec 01, 2008 3:57 pm

mattsb2000 wrote:I have a ton of pictures from MCAS El Toro if anyone is interested.

Are they current photos - i.e. after the base closed? Love to see some of them up here if so!

Mon Dec 01, 2008 4:02 pm

viking73 wrote:
mattsb2000 wrote:I have a ton of pictures from MCAS El Toro if anyone is interested.

Are they current photos - i.e. after the base closed? Love to see some of them up here if so!

From 2006 after the base closed.

http://s45.photobucket.com/albums/f96/m ... 2014%2006/

Have fun.

ETA: I can post them all here if you like. I'm not sure if that would upset anyone though.

Mon Dec 01, 2008 6:51 pm

After MCAS El Toro closed some flight instructors thought the location was a great place to practice emergency simulations. After some yahoos thought it would be neat to do touch and goes the feds put an altitude restriction over the area. What a waste of good runways and hangars but we will have a really nice park there someday. :roll:

Les

Mon Dec 01, 2008 11:50 pm

At one time, back in the late 90's, I believe, the city wanted to give or sell the airport to the L.A. city airport system. They were going to open it up to make it a reliever field for commercial air traffic out of Los Angeles, and Orange County. Instead the city or citizens killed the idea. They decided it would make better residential and commercial property instead. So, next time you go to Orange County or LAX, and it's supercrowded and your flight is delayed due to traffic saturation, you can thank the citizens down there. I know there were plans afoot for one major airline to totally withdraw from LAX, and open a huge hub there at El Toro. Needless to say, it didn't happen.

Tue Dec 02, 2008 3:25 am

The only aviating done there now is with a tethered hot air balloon.

http://www.ocgp.org/

Les