Las Vegas Strip

Posted by James Turnbull, Thursday, 7th April 2005

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Some of Las Vegas’ top casinos all in one image. There’s the Sahara top left, then New York, New York below that (complete with Statue of Liberty on the corner). Eastward of NY is the MGM Grand (which looks quite unimpressive from above). The castle-like building with the red and blue turrets is Excalibur and opposite that is the Tropicana. Southward there’s the unmissable Luxor pyramid and lastly Mandalay Bay.

Niagara Falls

Posted by Alex Turnbull, Thursday, 7th April 2005

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Crazy, here’s Niagara Falls, and I had no idea it went from America, Northwards to Canada! I always thought it was the other way around. Oh well, that shows you what Superman teaches us… nothing.

Niagara Falls

The Whitehouse

Posted by Alex Turnbull, Thursday, 7th April 2005

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Here’s the Whitehouse, complete with ‘national security protection’ (some quick Photoshopping…)

The Whitehouse

Edwards Air Force Base

Posted by Alex Turnbull, Thursday, 7th April 2005

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Edwards Air Force Base has this giant compass-thing scraped into the desert. I assume it’s to help pilots orientate themselves when landing or taking off.

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Boneyard, Tucson

Posted by James Turnbull, Thursday, 7th April 2005

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Wow – there are a LOT of planes in Pima Air & Space Museum. It looks like they’ve got at least 10 of each plane, all laid out in very neat rows. Also of note is the plane scrapheap – they should do an episode of Scrapheap Challenge there. (Via)

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Update: From the comments David points out these pictures aren’t actually from Pima Air & Space Museum (which looks like this).

This is actually the “boneyard” of the US military at Davis Monthan Air Force Base. It’s refered to as the world’s largest air force, as there are more planes parked here in various states of disrepair, destruction or stasis to out number any active air force in the world, including the Pima Air and Space is just next door but, while incredibly cool, does not have nearly as many airplanes. There are monthly tours available through the base’s boneyard.

and Yorkie points us to a collection of ground level shots.