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**** Foreword ****

My Own Groom Experiences:

I wrote the following two stories after my trips to visit the secret government air base knows as Groom Lake. These stories take placce in the southern Nevada desert and are both non-fiction.

(06/29/94) The Middle of the XXXXing Desert I (A Trip To Groom Lake)
(09/01/94) The Middle of the XXXXing Desert II (Return To Groom Lake)

3D Rendered views of the Nellis Bombing and Gunnery Range

I wrote a quick little interactive piece of software (using an Silicon Graphics 150Mhz Indigo2 Extreme holding 64Mb, GL & C) to read and render USGS Digtal Elevation Models (DEM) and Digital Line Graphs (DLG). Here's a few screen shots....
100KThe Surrounding Area
119KThe Groom Range (side view)
147KThe Groom Range (top view) with roads
128KThe Groom Range (top view) with hydrology
34KThe (virtual) Freedom Ridge Viewpoint
98KPapoose Lake (top view) w/ roads & hydrology
184KAnother possible Groom viewpoint

The following were donated by Bill Swearingen (bswearin@folio.com) - rendered on a Compaq Prolinea Mini tower 486/66Mhz with 20MB RAM - also using USGS DEM data.
46K Virtual Freedom Ridge Viewpoint
164K High Altiude Papoose Lake View
189K The View from Tikaboo
367K IMPROVED! Landsat Image of Southern Nevada
133K A Key For The Above Image.
190K A MUCH Better Rendering Of The Alt Viewpoint
354K Yucca Flats (Aerial View)
354K Yucca Flats (Aerial View)
201 Yucca Flats (Aerial View)
232 Yucca Flats (Aerial View)
4Mb FLC Animation of the 'Sport Model'

You may want to use the Xanim FLC viewer to animate it

The follow was donated by Michael Nowicki(miken@aimnet.com)

The following pages are maintained by me but are now part of the
Internet UFO Group (IUFOG) [Go Live]

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"Several of our aerodynamics experts, including Dick Cantrell, seriously thought that maybe we would be better trying to build an actual flying saucer. The shape itself was the ultimate in low observability. The problem was finding ways to make a saucer fly. Unlike our plates, it would have to be rotated and spun. But how? The Martians wouldn't tell us."

Taken from the book - Skunk Works by:
Ben R. Rich
Former head of Lockheed's Skunk Works



Dave Schmitz smitty@schmitzware.com

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