Area 51
Area 51, znano tudi kot Območje 51, je letalska baza Ameriških letalskih sil, v kateri so v preteklosti razvijali in testirali skrivnostne vojaške projekte, kot so vohunsko letalo Lockheed U-2, visokohitrostno letalo Lockheed A-12 (SR-71), brezpilotni dron Lockheed D-21 in stealth bombnika Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk.
Homey Airport | |
|---|---|
 Satelitska slika področja (2000), izsušeno jezero Groom na severvzhodu | |
| Povzetek | |
| Tip letališča | Vojaško |
| Lastnik | Ameriška vlada |
| Upravitelj | USAF |
| Lokacija | Južna Nevada, ZDA |
| Nadmorska višina AMSL | 1.360 m |
| Koordinati | 37°14′06″N 115°48′40″W / 37.23500°N 115.81111°W |
| Zemljevid | |
  KXTA Location of Homey Airport | |
Baza je tudi znana pod imeni Dreamland in vzdevki Paradise Ranch, Home Base in Watertown. Oznaka 51 naj bi pomenila 51. ameriška zvezna država.
Glej tudi
uredi- Skunk Works
- Boeing Phantom Works
- Kapustin Jar, Sovjetska zveza
- Woomera Prohibited Area, Avstralija
- Tonopah Test Range, znan tudi kot Area 52
Bibliografija
uredi- Rich, Ben R.; Janos, Leo (1994). Skunk Works: A personal memoir of my years at Lockheed. Boston: Little, Brown. ISBN 978-0-316-74300-6
- Darlington, David (1998). Area 51: The Dreamland Chronicles. New York: Henry Holt. ISBN 978-0-8050-6040-9
- Patton, Phil (1998). Dreamland: Travels Inside the Secret World of Roswell and Area 51. New York: Villard / Random House ISBN 978-0-375-75385-5
- Area 51 resources Arhivirano 2005-04-04 na Wayback Machine. at the Federation of American Scientists.
- Lesley Stahl "Area 51 / Catch 22" 60 Minutes CBS Television 17 March 1996, a US TV news magazine's segment about the environmental lawsuit.
- Area 51 related article archive Arhivirano 2010-02-18 na Wayback Machine. from the pages of the Las Vegas Review-Journal
- Jacobsen, Annie (2011). "Area 51". New York, Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 978-0-316-13294-7 (hc)
Zunanje povezave
uredi- Dreamland Resort – Detailed history of Area 51
- Roadrunners Internationale – Covering the history of the U2 and A-12 Blackbird spy plane projects
- "How Area 51 Works", on HowStuffWorks
- Zemljevidi in fotografije
- The site Wikimapia
- Dreamland Resort's map of Area 51 buildings
- Dreamland Resort Maps – Maps of Area 51 and Google Earth plug-ins
- Topographic Map of the Emigrant Valley / Groom area
- Aerial photos of Area 51 show the base's growth since 1959
- Photographs of McCarran EG&G terminal and JANET aircraft
- Official FAA aeronautical chart of Groom Lake
- Historical pictures of Groom Lake, Groom Lake Mining District Arhivirano 2013-12-29 na Wayback Machine., Department of Special Collections, Digital Image Collections, University of Nevada, Reno, accessed 30 January 2009
