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Initially, the falcon pair laid their eggs on a broken sandbag on the upper balcony of Sather Tower, which was replaced by researchers with a nest box after scientists found that eggs were rolling off of the sandbag. [4] In the wild, falcons nest on rocky ledges and cliff faces, so the gravel-filled nest box was designed to mimic those conditions.
After these launches of the Falcon 1, the site was no longer needed and SpaceX closed the site and returned the property to pre-launch conditions". [58] All Falcon 1 launches took place at this location, five launches from 2006 to 2009. SpaceX abandoned Omelek when Falcon 1 was retired, due to the expense of logistics.
F-16 Fighting Falcon. C-40 Clipper. 114th Fighter Wing: Joe Foss Field ANGB, Sioux Falls, South Dakota: ACC: F-16 Fighting Falcon: 115th Fighter Wing: Truax Field ANGB, Madison, Wisconsin: ACC: F-35 Lightning II: 116th Air Control Wing: Robins AFB, Georgia: ACC: TBD -- E-11? 117th Air Refueling Wing: Sumpter Smith JNGB, Birmingham, Alabama [2 ...
Space Launch Complex 4 (SLC-4) is a launch and landing site at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, U.S. It has two pads, both of which are used by SpaceX for Falcon 9, one for launch operations, and the other as Landing Zone 4 (LZ-4) for SpaceX landings. The complex was previously used by Atlas and Titan rockets between 1963 and 2005.
Also in this time frame, the radar site was relocated from the original location in the south central part of the Naval Air Station grounds to the far southwest corner. At the new SAGE radar site, the squadron used an AN/FPS-35 search radar that replaced the AN/MPS-7 set in 1963. In 1964 an AN/FPS-6 height-finder radar was added.
Location Notes 1st Aircraft Maintenance Squadron: 1st Maintenance Group, 1st Fighter Wing: Joint Base Langley–Eustis [1] 2nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron: Maintaining Global Power: 2nd Maintenance Group, 2nd Bomb Wing: Barksdale Air Force Base [2] 4th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron: 4th Maintenance Group, 4th Fighter Wing: Seymour Johnson Air ...
Falcon® II tactical HF-SSB/VHF-FM manpack radio: Harris Corporation (now L3Harris Technologies) AN/PRC-152: Falcon® III portable, compact, tactical software-defined combat-net radio: Harris Corporation (now L3Harris Technologies) AN/PRC-154: Rifleman Radio is a handheld, intra-squad tactical radio: Thales Group, General Dynamics: AN/PRC-155
California State Parks' first state marine park. Candlestick Point State Recreation Area: State recreation area San Francisco: 204 83 1972 Constitutes California's first urban state recreation area, on the west shore of San Francisco Bay. [41] Cardiff State Beach: State beach San Diego: 507 205 1949 Provides a sandy, warm-water beach outside ...