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I always try and find the perfect shot of these hangars during stormy days. This is one of the two abandoned blimp hangers located in Tustin, CA. The hanger is 1,088 feet long, 178 feet high and 297 feet wide. Read about the history below.
From Wikipedia:
The Air Station was established in 1942 as Naval Air Station Santa Ana, a base for airship operations in support of the United States Navy's coastal patrol efforts during World War II. NAS Santa Ana was decommissioned in 1949. In 1951, the facility was reactivated as Marine Corps Air Station Santa Ana to support the Korean War. It was the country's first air facility developed solely for helicopter operations. It was renamed Marine Corps Air Station Tustin in 1970.
During the Vietnam War, the base was a center for on-going testing of radar installations which were erected, tested, disassembled and shipped to Vietnam. It also was a training facility for helicopter pilots.
By the early 1990s, MCAS Tustin was a major center for Marine Corps helicopter aviation on the Pacific Coast. Its primary purpose was to provide support services and material for the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing and for other units utilizing the base. About 4,500 residents once lived on the base, and the base employed nearly 5,000 military personnel and civilians. In addition to providing military support, MCAS Tustin leased 530 acres (2.1 km2) to farmers for commercial crop development. For many years, agricultural lands surrounded the facility. However beginning in the 1980s residential and light industrial/manufacturing areas developed adjacent to the station.
In 1991 and again in 1993, under the authority of the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990, it was announced that MCAS Tustin would be closed. Operational closure of the base occurred in July 1999. However, the north hangar is still used as a storage and repair center for commercial blimps. Of the approximately 1,600 acres (6.5 km2), some 1,294 acres (now known collectively as "Tustin Legacy") have been conveyed to the City of Tustin, private developers and public institutions for a combination of residential, commercial, educational, and public recreational and open-space uses. The remaining 300-plus acres will be conveyed to other federal agencies, the City of Tustin and public institutions for the same uses once environmental clean-up operations have been concluded.
In 1993, the blimp hangars were designated National Civil Engineering Landmarks by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). There have been talks regarding making one of the blimps a military museum.
The site of the base is now the home of the academy of the Orange County Sheriff's Department. Much of the former base has become residential housing.
Direct TV's blimp was flying over my town yesterday. Despite the telephoto lens I could not see what was on its LED screen.
You have propably seen a MetLife Blimp on TV at some event.
This one was flying around Central Texas this week.
"Worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum" -- Baz Lurhman
I'm surprised (and frankly embarrassed) at how long I sometimes go without just standing and staring at this gorgeous goddamned city.
This is a view inside the Blimp Hangar that I first visited close up on Sept 21, 2019, after seeing it half a mile away from Adams Pasture the prior April. The giant alcove is huge, but not as deep as one might expect from the distant view, and the floor is littered with boulders.
New kicks - in a sale, of course. When I see 'Goodyear' I immediately think of blimps! They seem to make an awful lot of them.
I've had trouble with my achilles for a month or so, and someone suggested I try a pair of Skechers. They aren't pretty, but I've been walking in them for the last few days and I don't have the same amount of pain when I make dinner now.
Today's story and sketch "by me" you see Bendel Gofish and his family who are the
first family to pop through Worm Hole Nine at a new temporary, and very unstable
Exit Portal here on the beach in Makola Pakistan. The actual Portal exit and entrance
is between the two unmarked Makola Nut Palms, you see behind the lawn chair of Shober
Sammiti, who just finished a 16.oz RC Cola and Original double Decker
Moon Pie, and walked behind the Palms to relieve himself, and is now somewhere in
worm hole nine lost in space, or may have gotten lucky and is hitching a ride with
a humanoid life form who noticed him without transportation floating in the Worm Hole.
We hope to have more on Shober's story at another time.
Bendel and his family were the first to buy an all inclusive worm hole pass for
the "EBRA" Earth Blimp Racing Associations, newest promotion "Blimp Spotting
Tours". Bendel bought the "EBRA" day pass at the Earth Tour Kiosk at the Worm Hole
rest stop, and traveler convenience center near the Mars Exit. Bendel and the family
may be on Earth for sometime if they can not remember which two palm trees are
the Portal entrance, but that will be a story for another time, until then
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The Tillamook Air Museum is housed in a hangar that was used by the U.S. Navy for blimps that were deployed along the Oregon coast on anti-submarine patrols.
There was a tourist event recently on the promenade, and this blimp showed up. More than likely, there was a security camera on board.
Fine film grain [digital] was applied to the image. In photos with a lot of open sky, this often gives the area "body." Happy Monochrome Bokeh Thursday!
Here's a shot of one of my latest platinum prints.
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Used in order to secure the current ship Wingfoot 2 on land. See first photo below within Comments.
Happy Truck Thursday!
I was driving past the Lorain County Airport Airport (with my mom and dad) and stopped to take some shots of this blimp. As I was driving up the road one of the airport one of the crew members waved me (and my parents) over. Iain, a crew member from Australia, asked me if I wanted an up close and personal tour of the blimp and of course I said "YES!!!" What an awesome experience!!!
3x Goodyear ZP2K/ZP3K Blimp Gondolas in storage field at Fantasy of Flight, Polk City, FL on 06/04/19
The Goodyear blimp peeks between buildings as the sun sets behind the skyline of Los Angeles.
Photo taken from the grounds of the John Ferraro building in downtown Los Angeles, CA (USA).
Dudsby is taking it nice and easy coming down, now passing through the cloud cover at 4.8km descending 8m/s & slowing
Today's story and sketch "by me" we see Woowda Gofish with his assistant Neddy Kagler two of the "EBRA" Blimp Race officials, watching for any use of offensive weapons as the Racing Blimps round the tip of Maui. This is the fourth
leg of the "EBRA" Around The Earth Blimp Race. And it looks like the team of "Big Pink" is still in the lead,
even after having had all of their stun guns, and "defoliator" rockets confiscated in Portland. There was a short stop
at the third check point in Seattle, but it was very short, seemed all of the Brewistas where on strike for a fifteen
hour work week, and free health care, there were twenty thousand of them laying chained together on the Blimp Port landing strip. Most of the Blimpers were upset not being able to land, but were good sports and did drop many moon pies,
although there were reports of many injuries, some of the Blimpers dropped full cases of pies on to the cheering mob,
as they turned for the Hawaiian Islands.
(A case of twelve dozen moon pies average weight sixty five pounds, and traveling even from low altitude
of one thousand feet, could do some hurt), but that is a story for another time.
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bye sunshine (hi Duna). 5.8km descending at 5m/s we have 2h 37m of battery life so no worries on lack of solar power