Mysterious giant concrete arrows in America's wilderness

[JonnyBGoode]

This article will be of interest to aviation buffs: http://www.cntraveler.com/daily-tra...ntinental-air-mail-route-maphead-ken-jennings

 

[Hielor]

Bonus points if you find them all on Google Maps!

 

[RisingFury]

When's the addon coming out? :lol:

 

[ADSWNJ]

37.1174 -113.4877

Here's one for starters. It shows how zoomed in you need to be to find them.

 

[N_Molson]

That was pretty ingenious...

 

[boogabooga]

VOR? Who needs VOR?

 

[Spacethingy]

You get a few in Britain as well, although I think it was mainly for bomber training:
(Just south of Bristol)
http://goo.gl/maps/kysgl

 

[orb]

You get a few in Britain as well, although I think it was mainly for bomber training

Your link somehow doesn't bring maps for me (probably because I don't allow scripts for goo.gl). Anyway, here's embedded version:
[ame="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=51.324237,-3.010584&num=1&t=h&z=20"]51.324237,-3.010584 - Google Maps[/ame]


And here, for comparison with the same zoom level, is the one ADSWNJ posted:
[ame="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=37.117451,-113.487637&num=1&t=h&z=20"]37.117451,-113.487637 - Google Maps[/ame]

 

[Izack]

Wait, since when could you embed maps? :huh:

 

[RGClark]

This article will be of interest to aviation buffs: http://www.cntraveler.com/daily-tra...ntinental-air-mail-route-maphead-ken-jennings

Thanks. That's a cool story. I'd like to see some pictures of those 51 foot tall one million candle watt power beacons alit.

Bob Clark

 

[NukeET]

37.1174 -113.4877

Here's one for starters. It shows how zoomed in you need to be to find them.

I've been within few hundred meters of this one - never knew it existed.



OBTW: I used Google Earth - copied and pasted the coordinates from ADSWNJ - went right to it.

 

[orb]

Wait, since when could you embed maps? :huh:

[Announcement] Automatic Media Embedding upgraded < since then.