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Subject:   Skunk Works Digest V3 #12
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Skunk Works Digest         Monday, 16 August 1993       Volume 03 : Number 012

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	What is Bicycle Lake used for?

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From: TRADER@cup.portal.com
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 93 23:22:01 PDT
Subject: What is Bicycle Lake used for?

While studying the topographic maps in DeLorme Publishings "Southern
California Atlas & Gazetteer" I found a remote airstrip that would be
ideal for "black" aircraft programs. I wonder if anyone out there knows
what the Bicycle Lake facility is used for? If I read this scale correctly,
the runway looks like it is about 9000 feet (2740 meters) long. Bicycle
Lake is located on the property of Fort Irwin, California. It appears to
be almost 30 air miles (48 km) from Interstate 15, with Alvord and Tiefort
mountains between the airstrip and the highway. It is east of the highly
restricted Goldstone satellite complex (associated with the National
Reconaissance Office). Given this airstrip's size, remote desert location,
and being surrounded by Fort Irwin and the China Lake Naval Air station,
I believe it would make an ideal clandestine test facility - Groom Lake
in Nevada is too well known.

Paul McGinnis / TRADER@cup.portal.com

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