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Tonopah Test Range is located about 70 miles (110 km) northwest of Groom Lake, the home of the Area 51 facility. Like the Groom Lake facility, Tonopah is a site of interest to conspiracy theorists, mostly for its use of experimental and classified aircraft. As such, it is not generally the focus of alien enthusiasts, unlike its neighbor.
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 ...
Tolicha Peak and Point Bravo are the sites of for electronic combat ranges, and the Mercury Valley is the eponym for a Cold War camp that became Mercury, Nevada. The Tonopah Test Range, within the boundaries of the NTTR (e.g., "Nellis Range 75" [5]) includes Antelope Lake, Radar Hill, and the "Cactus, Antelope, and Silverbow Springs". [6]
The Nellis Air Force Base Complex [1] (Nellis AFB complex, [2] [3] NAFB Complex [1]) is the southern Nevada military region of federal facilities and lands, e.g., currently and formerly used for military and associated testing and training such as Atomic Energy Commission atmospheric nuclear detonations of the Cold War.
Cactus Flat is one of the Central Nevada Desert Basins [3] in the Cactus-Sacrobatus Watershed, for which it is an eponym.The flat is the location of the Tonopah Test Range Airport and Tonopah Test Range, a component of the Nevada Test and Training Range used for weapons testing since the 1950s. [4]
Tonopah Airport covers an area of 3,820 acres (1,550 ha) at an elevation of 5,430 feet (1,655 m) above mean sea level. It has two asphalt paved runways : 15/33 is 7,160 by 80 feet (2,182 x 23 m) and 11/29 is 5,660 by 50 feet (1,725 x 15 m).
Tonopah Basin, Central Basin and Range ecoregions around the Tonopah Playas; Tonopah Bombing Range, the 1940 World War II designation of the military region Tonopah Test Range, a nuclear test area SW of the Tonopah Bombing Range; Tonopah Air Force Base, the 1949 main base for the bombing range; Tonopah Army Air Field, the main base's name in ...
Tonopah Bombing and Gunnery Range, the 1947 designation prior to the 1949 merger of the 2 areas (cf. Las Vegas Bombing and Gunnery Range) Tonopah Air Force Base, the name of the range's main base after c. 1947 transfer to the USAF; Tonopah Test Range, a 1956 area established for nuclear testing (cf. the "instrumented AEC range at Tonopah" used ...