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I was entering some new data into the Locator when I came across these planes...
Aerial Visuals - Location Dossier - Piney Island, North Carolina

So the question are... What are they doing there? What are they? Is this land part of MCAS Cherry Point?

Mike

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What is the dark strip around the "runway", some sort of canal or moat? I guess that would make sense to help keep the deer and othe wildlife off of the runway.

When I was in Daytona in the '80's, we mercilessly teased the Director of Maintenance at ERAU about the two F-16's that FANG had damaged in Jacksonville when some wild boar wandered out onto the runway. (He was a FANG maintenance officer, too) Apparently the boar were much bigger than the 4 lb. birds a jet engine is supposed to be able to ingest.

The area is an "electronic practice range" for the military. The article below indicates the "airstrip" is landfill, but the topographic maps of the area show it as a landing strip. It may have been a misunderstanding of terminology; it certainly required a lot of fill to build a strip in that area, which is basically a huge swamp. That is the explanation of the water on either side; those were borrow areas for soil to build the strip up to a point that it would stay dry.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ ... island.htm

Regards,

Andy

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Piney Island training range...

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/piney-island.htm


Edit...Dang Andy beat me to it!

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Interesting. Thanks gents!

Mike

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Mike R. Henniger
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BT-11 is the first place I ever strafed in the F-15E.

Pretty decent range, although small.