It's a really interesting piece of history, Patrick, so I don't think you're wasting time on it. -- Joe ________________________________ From: Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Monday, September 2, 2013 12:47 AM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Concrete arrows (OT) On 01 Sep 2013, at 21:52, Brent Watson wrote:
The 1943 sectional shows an airport at Grantsville. Scrutinizing Google Earth, it looks like it may have been at 40 deg 39 min 42.57 seconds, and 112 deg W 28 min 4.95 sec.
That was one of the sites I checked out on foot last week. The information section on the interactive map you referenced last week (http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/ds_mark.prl?PidBox=LP0434) puts it at 40 39 29.43137 112 27 30.62132. All I found there were a couple of open fields. But I still walked about hoping to find some sort of remains but since they are working fields anything that might have been there appears to have been removed and/or plowed under.
Next time Patrick is flying about, perhaps he could fly over that area and see if anything more is left out there.
That is my plan. My plane is gone until tomorrow night so my first chance to get the plane and check the site from the air will be Wednesday if the weather permits. As luck would have it I was sitting in the open door of the jump plane on Friday and we flew very close to the site so I got a good luck but saw nothing. But we were pretty high by then. When I fly over later this week I'll be much lower.
The old Tooele airport is not charted, but there was a beacon there. Its hard to say, but there may be remnants of an arrow near the runway where the road takes off to the west. It is just north of the road. The airport is not charted, but the old runway and five hangars are still there. The runway has been X'd out for many years now.
Alas the hangers are now gone too and the old runway, while still there, ends right at a new large building. Gee it's that airport where I had my first emergency landing... Ah, memories. :) But I digress. The interactive map you posted the other day appears to indicate there was no beacon at the Tooele airport. However the data file the map refers to, http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/ds_mark.prl?PidBox=LP0428, refers to it as Beacon 61B. Zooming in with that map shows an open area near some buildings but no sign of an arrow or tower. However this older map, http://itouchmap.com/latlong.html, seems to show something there. So I'm going to pop down there this week and have a look. patrick (who is having way too much fun spending way too much time on this project) _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Send messages to the list to Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com The Utah-Astronomy mailing list is not affiliated with any astronomy club. To unsubscribe go to: http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Then enter your email address in the space provided and click on "Unsubscribe or edit options".