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Random Google Maps browsing of the day.
Posted on 5/10/24 at 2:29 pm
Posted on 5/10/24 at 2:29 pm
Friends! Happy Friday!
I will occasionally scroll through google maps satellite to see what I can see. Today I found a random runway in the middle of the Everglades about halfway between Miami and the Gulf of Mexico. Just a runway with no hangars or fuel tanks. Also theres a 747 parked there.
Then the wikipedia dive begins. This was planned to be the largest airport in the world and the hub for commercial supersonic travel with 6 runways. Supersonic travelled was deemed not economically feasable and only 1 runway was built. It is now used for training (and Im sure human trafficking of illegals into this country but wikipedia didnt put that part in.)
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Feel free to add your own google maps random finds.
I will occasionally scroll through google maps satellite to see what I can see. Today I found a random runway in the middle of the Everglades about halfway between Miami and the Gulf of Mexico. Just a runway with no hangars or fuel tanks. Also theres a 747 parked there.
Then the wikipedia dive begins. This was planned to be the largest airport in the world and the hub for commercial supersonic travel with 6 runways. Supersonic travelled was deemed not economically feasable and only 1 runway was built. It is now used for training (and Im sure human trafficking of illegals into this country but wikipedia didnt put that part in.)
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Feel free to add your own google maps random finds.
This post was edited on 5/10/24 at 2:30 pm
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Posted on 5/10/24 at 2:33 pm to Cosmo
was the first of six planned runways meant to be a hub for super sonic airliners with a high speed rail system connecting to surrounding cities
ETA: I’ll bet the drug lords were salivating for that, maybe even financing it
ETA: I’ll bet the drug lords were salivating for that, maybe even financing it
This post was edited on 5/10/24 at 2:36 pm
Posted on 5/10/24 at 2:35 pm to Cosmo
Posted on 5/10/24 at 2:38 pm to Cosmo
It's crazy that this kind of information can be viewed by just anyone on their laptop. This would have been some top secret stuff at one time. 
Posted on 5/10/24 at 2:39 pm to Cosmo
A man shitting in the bushes off the Michoud Exit while his wife brings him something to wipe with.
Posted on 5/10/24 at 2:44 pm to Cosmo
I was reading up on this air strip recently. It was mentioned on one of the air crash YouTube channels I watch.
Posted on 5/10/24 at 2:49 pm to redstick13
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I was reading up on this air strip recently. It was mentioned on one of the air crash YouTube channels I watch.
Eastern used to use it for flight training and maintenance flights
Posted on 5/10/24 at 2:53 pm to Cosmo
Luecke Farm, Smithville TX
Posted on 5/10/24 at 2:53 pm to redstick13
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I was reading up on this air strip recently. It was mentioned on one of the air crash YouTube channels I watch.
That valujet flight would have loved to make it to that runway Im sure
Posted on 5/10/24 at 2:58 pm to Cosmo
My Florida butler left his plane there.
I’ll have my chief pilot mention it to him.
I’ll have my chief pilot mention it to him.
Posted on 5/10/24 at 2:58 pm to Cosmo
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That valujet flight would have loved to make it to that runway Im sure
they didn’t have a chance, they were pretty close to several good runways
Posted on 5/10/24 at 2:59 pm to Cosmo
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hub for commercial supersonic travel
So you fly in at the speed of sound, then you’re still an hour away from Miami? I can see why it failed.
2hrs to Ft Meyers or West Palm.
Posted on 5/10/24 at 3:02 pm to Cosmo
A lot of people don't think of Florida and oil production, but there is an oil field just north of that runway that's produced more than 22 million barrels of oil.
That's the well road leading North to it in you first picture about a mile or two to the West of the airstrip.
The red tape to drill or even shoot seismic around there has all but made it impossible to further develop. If that was Louisiana, it would be dotted with well pads.
That's the well road leading North to it in you first picture about a mile or two to the West of the airstrip.
The red tape to drill or even shoot seismic around there has all but made it impossible to further develop. If that was Louisiana, it would be dotted with well pads.
Posted on 5/10/24 at 3:03 pm to Cosmo
What’s the rectangular shape in the image that appears to be a building?
Posted on 5/10/24 at 3:03 pm to Cosmo
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This was planned to be the largest airport in the world and the hub for commercial supersonic travel with 6 runways. Supersonic travelled was deemed not economically feasable and only 1 runway was built.
It would have obliterated the Everglades. Also, could you imagine having to drive all the way to Big Cypress to catch a plane?
Posted on 5/10/24 at 3:08 pm to Cosmo
Cocaine Cowboys
Posted on 5/10/24 at 3:12 pm to WPBTiger
Here's the link to the poor son of a bitch who got caught shitting in the bushes. He didn’t even have time to pull all the way off the road. Just put her in park right there.
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How bad does your luck have to be. You think you found a pretty secluded spot. Think about how infrequently the google street view car comes by. The one time you happen to pull off I-10 to take a shite in the abandoned East and look who happens to drive by. The google car has driven by that spot two times ever.
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How bad does your luck have to be. You think you found a pretty secluded spot. Think about how infrequently the google street view car comes by. The one time you happen to pull off I-10 to take a shite in the abandoned East and look who happens to drive by. The google car has driven by that spot two times ever.
This post was edited on 5/10/24 at 3:20 pm
Posted on 5/10/24 at 3:19 pm to The Boat
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Here's the link to the poor son of a bitch who got caught shitting in the bushes.
I can almost make out the license plate. That would make it even more embarrassing for this baw if someone can see that.
Also, that place turned into quite the trash heap between March 2014 and October 2019.
This post was edited on 5/10/24 at 3:26 pm
Posted on 5/10/24 at 3:31 pm to cbree88
Beautiful climate-friendly California...oh wait a a few oil rigs off the coast of Huntington Beach!
Posted on 5/10/24 at 3:46 pm to Crow Pie
There used to be a lot of street view pics of drug deals going down
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