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Map showing Tonopah Test Range and related federal lands in southern Nevada In the early 20th century, the region was used primarily for mining and some grazing. Early maps from the 1930s indicated a roadway connecting the towns of Caliente and Tonopah via Rachel , which ascended Cedar Pass and crossed through the northern part of the future ...
An F-117 based at Tonopah Test Range and piloted by Maj. Ross Mulhare crashed on July 11, 1986 near Bakersfield, California. Another F-117 piloted by Michael C. Stewart was lost on October 14, 1987 on the range about 30 miles east of the TTR Airfield, and it took the Air Force nearly a day to find the wreckage [ 28 ] In both crashes the pilot ...
Nevada Test and Training Range—shares ~1,276 sq mi (3,300 km 2) of the Southern Range with the DNWR Northern Range: Southern Range: southern Tikaboo Valley, Dogbone Dry Lake in Range 62, [15] Northern: Tolich Peak ECR, Tonopah ECR Southern: Point Bravo ECR, Dogbone Lake G&BR, [15] Groom Lake Field in Area 51: USAF: 1942–present
On June 28, 1949, the "Gunnery Range of the Tonopah Air Force Base" had about 30 sq mi (78 km 2) [19] and after the 1949 Las Vegas Air Force Base was renamed on April 30, 1950, a United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) committee selected the "Las Vegas Bombing and Gunnery Range" for a nuclear test site on December 12, 1950. [20]
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Tonopah Air Force Station; Tonopah Test Range; Tonopah Test Range Airport; W. Winnemucca Air Force Station This page was last edited on 26 June 2024, at 01:35 ...
A bombing range and more lately a missile range centered in the south near Las Cruces, an area in the north part of the range was acquired during World War II and used for the Trinity test. An area near the Trinity site is designated the Permanent High Explosive Test Site (PHETS) and was used in the 1980s to host very large ANFO blasts for ...
Area 52, a 2012 album by Rodrigo y Gabriela and C.U.B.A.; Brodmann area 52, an area of the brain; Area52, a YouTube channel created by Chris Ramsay investigating UAP phenomena and anomalous experiences