On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Jan Faul <jan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It’s much more sinister than that. The car is not sitting in the car graveyard in Area 5 or 6, but in Area 12, just north of the CLimax Mine test facility. In my shot, the famous N tunnel is to the car’s right but about a mile or more in the background, and I’m still waiting for permission to actually set foot in the tunnels.
From my vantage point I am rather high over the floor of the valley and if I had had a much finer film like Agfa APX25, i think we would be able to see GAry's black Mustang parked at the guard’s shack on Groom Lake Road, better known as the freeway to Area 51. OF course Area 51 wasn’t there then according to the CIA, but the guard shack was and so was the Mustang.
The official NTS photographer probably was told to not have Are 51 in the background, os he had to stand elsewhere. The dead giveaway for the Okie’s car not being used in a weapons test is that it had wooden spoke wheels and wooden trim for the soft top, both of which would have burned.
JAn
On Aug 19, 2013, at 6:23 PM, Stephen Ylvisaker wrote:
Jan,
Is it possible that the view we see in the photograph is of the side of the vehicle that would have been in the blast shadow? Or, to use nautical terms, we might be looking at the leeward side of the vehicle rather than the windward side?
Stephen
The NNSS (formerly NEvada Test Site) has released a compendium on their activities from 1951 onwards. I suppose they think it’s an honest history, but much of it reads like it was written by foreign students and researched by somebody who had never set foot on the NTS.
See the bottom of page 30 for a real lie - The pictures car is a 1930-ear car with wooden wheels and roof parts. IF this were used in a bomb test hot enough to meal dials and plastic parts, why didn’t the wood burn?
