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Posted: 5/5/2017 1:33:21 PM EDT

I love using Google Earth to explore air bases and related sites. So I was goofing around today and found a couple of RQ-170 Sentinels in the open at Palmdale. Check it out.

Http://www.tinyurl.com/sentinal

lat/long: 34.61861629,-118.1103426

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Posted: 5/5/2017 1:38:39 PM EDT

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Link goes to error page.

Posted: 5/5/2017 1:41:15 PM EDT

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Typo in URL. Try again

Posted: 5/5/2017 5:18:38 PM EDT

[#3]

going to goggle map

Posted: 5/5/2017 10:36:36 PM EDT

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mockups of some sort

maybe movie props?

Posted: 5/7/2017 12:55:18 PM EDT

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Link does not work and just goes to the home page

Posted: 5/7/2017 3:27:32 PM EDT

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How about posting a screenshot because so far we can't see anything.

Posted: 5/7/2017 3:38:09 PM EDT

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Honestly guys, I don't understand why you guys are having so much trouble. The link works, I tried it on 2 different computers. I also gave you the lat/long, which you just have to paste into the search box in Google Earth. I can't make it any easier.

Posted: 5/7/2017 3:41:02 PM EDT

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Here, try this

https://www.google.com/maps/@34.6185774,-118.110136,196m/data=!3m1!1e3

Maybe they are dummies for radar testing?

Posted: 5/7/2017 3:54:11 PM EDT

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I see a fighter jet but no sentinel....

Posted: 5/7/2017 5:07:11 PM EDT

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Honestly guys, I don't understand why you guys are having so much trouble. The link works, I tried it on 2 different computers. I also gave you the lat/long, which you just have to paste into the search box in Google Earth. I can't make it any easier.

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Honestly guys, I don't understand why you guys are having so much trouble. The link works, I tried it on 2 different computers. I also gave you the lat/long, which you just have to paste into the search box in Google Earth. I can't make it any easier.

Here is what I get with your link.

Aw snap! The new Google Earth isn't supported by your browser yet. Try this link in Chrome instead. If you don't have Chrome installed, download it here.

Posted: 5/7/2017 5:12:44 PM EDT

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Here, try this

https://www.google.com/maps/@34.6185774,-118.110136,196m/data=!3m1!1e3

Maybe they are dummies for radar testing?

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I see Palmdale, the airport, a bunch of buildings, what looks like some dumping grounds, an F-16, and possibly a F-104 with missing tip tanks. Plus, I see Blackbird Airpark and Joe Davies Heritage Airpark.

Posted: 5/7/2017 5:19:34 PM EDT

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Check these out... Noticed them on the upper side of the base.

Posted: 5/7/2017 5:23:18 PM EDT

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Check these out... Noticed them on the upper side of the base.

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cracks in the pavement? Seriously, ya'll have to give more info.....

Posted: 5/7/2017 5:26:15 PM EDT

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cracks in the pavement? Seriously, ya'll have to give more info.....

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When I click the link, it go straight to the location I was showing...

Posted: 5/7/2017 5:51:26 PM EDT

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When I click the link, it go straight to the location I was showing...

https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/112200/Capture-203677.png

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none of that is there on mine....interesting.

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Posted: 5/7/2017 5:54:04 PM EDT

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For Pete's sake. I'll post a screenshot when I get home.

Posted: 5/7/2017 6:31:22 PM EDT

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OP

Posted: 5/7/2017 7:21:21 PM EDT

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none of that is there on mine....interesting.

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https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/337946/Screenshot-20170507-175221-203708.png

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When I click the link, it go straight to the location I was showing...

https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/112200/Capture-203677.png

none of that is there on mine....interesting.

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https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/337946/Screenshot-20170507-175221-203708.png

I see that now... That is quite odd indeed!

Posted: 5/7/2017 8:51:39 PM EDT

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Image in original post

Posted: 5/9/2017 9:24:25 PM EDT

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I love using Google Earth to explore air bases and related sites. So I was goofing around today and found a couple of RQ-170 Sentinels in the open at Palmdale. Check it out.

Http://www.tinyurl.com/sentinal

lat/long: 34.61861629,-118.1103426

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https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/64117/Capture-203820.JPG

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Meanwhile, across the airfield.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Palmdale,+CA/@34.6408633,-118.083296,58m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x80c25784ec70ddb5:0x6a6c792dad12e03a!8m2!3d34.5794343!4d-118.1164613

Posted: 5/10/2017 9:39:55 AM EDT

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Meanwhile, across the airfield.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Palmdale,+CA/@34.6408633,-118.083296,58m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x80c25784ec70ddb5:0x6a6c792dad12e03a!8m2!3d34.5794343!4d-118.1164613

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I love using Google Earth to explore air bases and related sites. So I was goofing around today and found a couple of RQ-170 Sentinels in the open at Palmdale. Check it out.

Http://www.tinyurl.com/sentinal

lat/long: 34.61861629,-118.1103426

ETA: corrected spelling error in URL

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https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/64117/Capture-203820.JPG

Meanwhile, across the airfield.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Palmdale,+CA/@34.6408633,-118.083296,58m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x80c25784ec70ddb5:0x6a6c792dad12e03a!8m2!3d34.5794343!4d-118.1164613

Not all that far from that, behind one of the buildings, appears to be the assembly jig for the X-47B:
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.6392981,-118.0790472,24m/data=!3m1!1e3

Posted: 5/11/2017 5:44:25 PM EDT

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Not all that far from that, behind one of the buildings, appears to be the assembly jig for the X-47B:
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.6392981,-118.0790472,24m/data=!3m1!1e3

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That looks like a shipping container. Lockheed used something similar to move the SR-71 by road for testing in the desert.

Posted: 5/11/2017 10:20:12 PM EDT

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Too busy for an assembly jig, looks more like a test fixture to me.

Posted: 5/11/2017 11:32:00 PM EDT

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Too busy for an assembly jig, looks more like a test fixture to me.

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There's also one on the LockMart side. F-117 perhaps?
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Palmdale,+CA/@34.619683,-118.1190455,52m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x80c25784ec70ddb5:0x6a6c792dad12e03a!8m2!3d34.5794343!4d-118.1164613

Posted: 5/11/2017 11:46:07 PM EDT

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Looks like Google Earth Pro has different images. None of the mock-ups or UAVs show on Pro.

Posted: 5/14/2017 7:53:27 PM EDT

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I wasn't finding the Sentinals in the spot / lat-long the OP gave, just some crates. There may be one under a tarp on the other side of Lockheed Way.
But further out in the "junkyard" there is a large piece of some sort of junk, it looks like the bottom or keel of a boat. Its pretty large. There is quite a bit of interesting junk, mostly in the Lockheed grounds. Pieces of wings, big tails or horizontal stabs, jigs and assembly platforms.

Posted: 6/27/2017 7:38:03 PM EDT

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There's a Global Hawk just south of the UCAVs and an F-15 west of them all.

The engine test bays have lit that valley up for many years with engines that sounded nothing like we had heard before.

I have many memories of Plant 42 dating back to the 1970s.

I was there for the B-1B rollout in 1984 and the B-2A rollout in 1988. Saw this hot blonde lady with an amazing figure walk right up in front of us, and hurl her hot dog all over the flight line.

Posted: 6/29/2017 9:08:47 PM EDT

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I do it as well. Here's a fun "whats that plane" at NAS Pensecola Boneyard

Posted: 6/29/2017 9:12:10 PM EDT

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Another "WTF is that?" from Palmdale.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Palmdale,+CA/@34.6407402,-118.0805042,17m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x80c25784ec70ddb5:0x6a6c792dad12e03a!8m2!3d34.5794343!4d-118.1164613

Posted: 6/30/2017 7:06:55 PM EDT

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Another "WTF is that?" from Palmdale.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Palmdale,+CA/@34.6410148,-118.0805729,24a,35y,180h,39.3t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x80c25784ec70ddb5:0x6a6c792dad12e03a!8m2!3d34.5794343!4d-118.1164613

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Palmdale,+CA/@34.6407402,-118.0805042,17m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x80c25784ec70ddb5:0x6a6c792dad12e03a!8m2!3d34.5794343!4d-118.1164613

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Looks like either a wing or a structural beam for a hangar.

Posted: 6/30/2017 7:17:34 PM EDT

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Not all that far from that, behind one of the buildings, appears to be the assembly jig for the X-47B:
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.6392981,-118.0790472,24m/data=!3m1!1e3

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Be sure to check out Blackbird Air Park South (down) from there.

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