Drone shot of an aircraft graveyard - GIF

[Altair]

Drone shot of an aircraft graveyard.




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Demolishing a Boeing 747 - GIF

[neilbourjaily]

Is this the one outside Tucson?

[bruce.desertrat]

Pretty sure it is, and during the summer monsoons, too, based on the rain in the mountains and the green "grass"...

[baja]

Pretty sure it is, and during the summer monsoons, too, based on the rain in the mountains and the green "grass"...

Yup, definitely the Rincon Mountains with the storm on them.

[neilbourjaily]

I circumnavigated that by car in '98 or so. It was huge. It had a lot of helicopters, too.

[bruce.desertrat]

Pima Air&Space Museum offers tours: https://pimaair.org/plan-your-visit/available-tours/

[mklotz]

Pima Air&Space Museum offers tours: https://pimaair.org/plan-your-visit/available-tours/

Under "Required ID" it says...

Full name as shown on Driver’s License or State Issued Photo ID, including middle initial or middle name (passports are NOT accepted for U.S. Citizens)

Interesting that a United States Air Force associated organization doesn't recognize documents issued by the US Dept. of State and accepted by most countries in the world.

I know I don't trust the government but I didn't realize that government agencies don't trust the government.

[bruce.desertrat]

I suspect it's more they're not allowed to accept passports for some reason, not that they won't accept or trust them. The base has some pretty weird security.

And it's not like anything there is a state secret or anything. I mean, heck they have B52's and B1's visibly destroyed on the ground visible to satellites as a part of treaty compliance. (1991 SALT, iirc) http://cdn.neonsky.com/4bd5ebf97479c...216-0276-1.jpg

[mklotz]

I suspect it's more they're not allowed to accept passports for some reason, not that they won't accept or trust them. The base has some pretty weird security.

Ok, can you suggest some reasons why they would not be allowed to accept passports in this application ?

It's a lot easier to counterfeit a state driver's license than it is to counterfeit an American passport.

I smell an instance of bureaucratic idiocy here and am curious if I'm right.

[jdurand]

I suspect it's more they're not allowed to accept passports for some reason, not that they won't accept or trust them. The base has some pretty weird security.

And it's not like anything there is a state secret or anything. I mean, heck they have B52's and B1's visibly destroyed on the ground visible to satellites as a part of treaty compliance. (1991 SALT, iirc) http://cdn.neonsky.com/4bd5ebf97479c...216-0276-1.jpg

It's simpler and stupider than you think. Many places ONLY subscribe to ID services that understand US driver's licence bar codes. I found out about that when a bank needed a scan of both sides of "a government issued ID". Ok, here's my passport data page and to be more complete a scan of my Russian visa in it and the covers with the serial number. Nope, no good. by "government issued ID" they mean US driver's license and nothing else. The scan of the back is all they really use, it's got the bar code.