World aviation museum and gate guard map

[reddfoxx]

Added, thanks.  Thought I had that one, actually. Maybe it was down last time I looked.

[TheChronicOne]

There are now more than 3000 sites on the map.  Just over 1400 museums, and new additions have slowed way down.  Gate guards are trickling in, as I have time to add them, and a few museums pop up while searching for those. 

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1YglU7IxTI_xdJtGCPwljGoFWn-8&usp=sharing

   Nice!! 

I'd like to think that the slow-down is in one way disappointing but.. realistically, it means a thorough job has been done, most things are accounted for, and pretty much only the odd, obscure, and hard-to-find remain.

[reddfoxx]

Thanks!

Yep, I think we have pretty much all of the museums.  Gate guards aren't the primary mission of the map, but it's nice to know what aviation displays are nearby when you're traveling.  For example, we were planning a trip from Columbus, Ohio to Pittsburgh.  I saw the John Glenn museum and ended up going there, saw a few gate guards which we ended up bypassing (I sometimes get outvoted,) and stumbled across a Cobra that is now on the map.

[reddfoxx]

More than 3400 entries now on the map.  Still pretty sure we have all of the museums.  I've added a lot of gate guards.  Filled in Japan pretty well, using the amazing lists at J-Hangarspace.  Well worth checking out for museum reports, airfield histories, etc.

I'm moving on to some of the more sparsely populated areas.  Can't find any in Iraq.  Found a few in North Korea.  Headed to central Asia and Africa.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1YglU7IxTI_xdJtGCPwljGoFWn-8&usp=sharing

[PR19_Kit]

  Can't find any in Iraq. 

They've probably all been bombed to pulp by various parties, thinking they were operational. 

[zenrat]

There were huge boneyards in Iraq but I guess they have been recycled by now.  The real Captain Fat Hamster was there and sent me these.  I was not allowed to know where he was and I don't think he was supposed to be playing in them.
DSCF0047_zpsnxxjmepx by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr
DSCF0067_zpsgcwnewdg by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

[reddfoxx]

Wow. Heckuva scrapyard.

[TheChronicOne]

Saw one near me that I'll have to go check out.

http://staffordmuseum.org/     

[kitnut617]

  Can't find any in Iraq. 

They've probably all been bombed to pulp by various parties, thinking they were operational. 

Or they buried them  ----

https://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1331&bih=703&ei=Jv8KWsOsCtLejwOeqI7YDA&q=iraqi+planes+buried+in+desert&oq=buried+ira&gs_l=img.1.2.0j0i8i30k1l2j0i24k1l2.2999.7550.0.11274.10.10.0.0.0.0.224.925.7j1j2.10.0....0...1.1.64.img..0.10.919...0i10k1.0.X_u4QNT4gvM#imgrc=_&spf=1510670206601

[Nick]

Watching TV last week I spotted a Harrier in a car park. When I Googled to find the location it showed that there is also a Bell 47 helo next to it and an EE Lightning hanging in the staff café. Such is the world of the Dyson HQ!

Dyson HQ, 1 Tetbury Hill, Malmesbury.

Lightning F1A, XM173
Harrier GR7 ZD462
Bell Sioux XT140

https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/don-t-say-hoover-don-t-say-hoover-conor-pope-meets-james-dyson-at-dyson-hq-1.2820738

Harrier and Bell are in bottom right corner of car park triangle. https://www.wired.com/2012/04/opinion-dyson-harrier-resolve/
https://www.engadget.com/2017/01/14/dyson-hq-tour/#gallery=470056&slide=4344605&index=5
http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/event/tour-of-the-newly-completed-dyson-ltd-new-factory-headquarters-674925675

[NARSES2]

and an EE Lightning hanging in the staff café. Such is the world of the Dyson HQ!

Maybe they've had problems with high flying industrial espionage, after all they've just been in the news about alleged I.E.

[reddfoxx]

Added Dyson, thanks for the info!

[TheChronicOne]

Found one you don't have yet. May be others in the area, too! 

Cubi Point, Subic, Zimbales, Phillipines:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Pe1UZYXQfY



Vigilante

[PR19_Kit]

Is that camo or graffiti? It certainly works as it takes a while to see that it is a Vigi.

[TheChronicOne]

Is that camo or graffiti? It certainly works as it takes a while to see that it is a Vigi.

Definitely grafitti. Less "gang banger" and more "artsy fartsy" but I think it still qualifies as grafitti?  Admittedly I didn't even watch the very video I posted but I had to stop and go look just now. There's all kinds of hippie lookin stuff, etc. But you know what... it does work pretty well for not only hiding it (up toward the nose for sure) but distorting the shape as well. Gives new meaning to "urban camo."

Ruminating on a grafitti paint job for a whif but....  sounds like a nightmare.