Random Photos (Page 11/32) Raydar JAN 01, 11:49 AM quote Originally posted by LT188GT: Click on the link for some more pics and a history of your tax dollars. Look at the second to last pic in the link to get an idea of how big the exhaust was during a test fire. Notice the building to the left of the flame and that is the building that I mentioned gets rolled away from the 22ft diameter circle. http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/004685.html The company was and still is The Aerojet General Corp. of Sacramento Calif. Excellent info! Thanks for sharing! If you care about this stuff, you'll find the info at the link quite fascinating. Take a few minutes and read the blog comments. Most of them were posted in 2007-08. Several of the posters were worried about the general public finding the place and vandalizing (tagging) it. (Duh.) From the blog... =========== Dale Says: May 12th, 2007 at 6:39 pm i used to go there and play back in 1974, here are some facts that i know about the place. the grain or fuel mixing vats were long concrete vats 3-4 feet deep and 5-6 wide and 75-100 long, they were on the rignt side of the main road, somebody in the late 70′ rented the place and raised catfish in them, when he lost the lease he dumped them in the lake next to the vats were i’v been told it’s still full of catfish. one building had a room with a glass wall 9 feet thick for mixing fuel. most of the building were dummys for cold war reasons.the main road was able to land cargo planes the building over the silo had large aircraft type wheels on the inside corners and it would lift up and drive its self down to the block house when the motors were tested, one old timer told us that one test went wrong and the motor came out of the hole and fliped around out in the glades Zeb JAN 01, 12:49 PM quote Originally posted by LT188GT: We have a winner in Raydar. This was one of two anchors that I saw and it was huge. My son is standing about 5-6 feet to the side of the one in the pic and he is 6ft tall. Notice the shadow on the R/H side of the anchor block to try and get some idea on the size. The shot of the building were I was quite a bit away from it (in Raydar's response) is to show you how far they rolled the building away from the 22ft diameter EXHAUST of the largest rocket motor when they test fired it. In some of the pics you can see the dirt that was piled up against the building in order to protect it from any mis-haps that might have occurred. Click on the link for some more pics and a history of your tax dollars. Look at the second to last pic in the link to get an idea of how big the exhaust was during a test fire. Notice the building to the left of the flame and that is the building that I mentioned gets rolled away from the 22ft diameter circle. http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/004685.html The company was and still is The Aerojet General Corp. of Sacramento Calif. Google ---Aerojet Everglades-- to get more info. I hope you enjoyed the pics and lets keep them coming with some New Years pics. Wow. See what I get for partying last night? I was instaling machinery in Aerojet Sacramento right before Thanksgiving! And was thinking like Ray, rocket test building. But I hadn't realized the BUILDING moved, and the rocket was stood up vertically. Whew we were building the machine, I checked Aerojet's website, and then looked them up on Google Maps. Their facility is huge, and most of it appears to have no buildings. Untill I zoomed in. The Google satellite images are all distorted and blank out large sections of the place. Wonder what's there? The guy I was working with said, "we DO NOT have 'explosives' here. We do have 'energetic materials'. Which, if handled improperly, will result in a HIGH ORDER DETONATION." He also said, every few years, the do a demonstration for the employess of what will happen if 'energetic materials' are 'handled improprly'. BOOM! LT188GT JAN 01, 01:15 PM I noticed in the first line of your response was the name RAY. I found a green "CAUTION" tag by one of the buildings attached to a pressure gauge. The name on the tag was Ray Lynch and dated 6/26/64. Any chance that is your last name assuming Ray is you first name? Finally_Mine_86_GT JAN 01, 01:59 PM That's just cool! Zeb JAN 01, 02:09 PM quote Originally posted by LT188GT: I noticed in the first line of your response was the name RAY. I found a green "CAUTION" tag by one of the buildings attached to a pressure gauge. The name on the tag was Ray Lynch and dated 6/26/64. Any chance that is your last name assuming Ray is you first name? No, no chance at all. I was referencing RayDAR, above, who correctly identified the building first. I don't work for Aerojet, and in 1964 I was 7 years old. I do wonder where Mr. Lynch is these days. We should look him up. He helped us win the Space Race, and kept us safe from Communism. Thanks, Ray. And all the guys who worked alongside you. LT188GT JAN 02, 07:05 PM OK. OK. So I did not take my own picture sitting atop Grandfather Mountain but it was my camera. Does that count? v6autogt JAN 02, 11:40 PM quote Originally posted by LT188GT: OK. OK. So I did not take my own picture sitting atop Grandfather Mountain but it was my camera. Does that count? I've been there before back in 1993 I think., Breathtaking views on the parkway. spark1 JAN 03, 04:06 PM LT188GT JAN 03, 04:39 PM The next series of airplanes were shot at Robbins Air Museum in Georgia this past October. More to come later in the thread. Yellow355F1 JAN 03, 05:41 PM Perfect thread for the random pics I took on my trip to San Angelo Texas. This was taken west of Memphis. Found this little guy by the pond at the place we stayed over night in Faust Arkansas. Was a very memorable trip and, enjoyed it immensely hope to be going back next year. I have tons of random shots from the trip out, and back.