Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Area 51 to disappear
Not because the Air Force finally figured out how to use all that alien technology they keep there. No, the reason is much more prosaic, even pedestrian, than an accidental rip in the fabric of time.
UPDATE: And some more details on the origins of Homey Airport, but no hint if Mom's home cooking is out of this world.
The Air Force’s classified test range at Groom Lake, Nev., has never lacked for evocative nicknames — it and its restricted airspace have been called Dreamland, Paradise Ranch, The Box and, most famously, Area 51. Now there’s a less romantic moniker to throw on the pile: “Homey Airport,” according to a few civilian aviation journals.Homey Airport, hmm. So does the lunch counter serve Mom's home cooking?
“Homey Airport” now appears as the official name for a certain air base near a certain dry lake bed in Nevada, according to reports in the Web site of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, as well as the Daily Aviator blog and others. New editions of flight planning software and civilian aviators’ GPS gear lists the name and the official designation “KXTA” — which online wags have speculated stands for “extraterrestrial airport.” (The “k” designation indicates only that the field is in the U.S., according to the Federal Aviation Administration.)
UPDATE: And some more details on the origins of Homey Airport, but no hint if Mom's home cooking is out of this world.
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