OK, so I'm out riding some gravel goodness in God's country. (Iowa) Now I've ridden most of these roads for 20 some years. This the third one of these I've found in all those rides. In the middle of a cornfield, fresh gravel going to it, and power and radio towers.
Can you guess what it is ?
Hint: I was a kid in the 60's and we had drills for this.
Something to think about.....is it still active ? why keep it mowed and kept up if it isn't ?
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Missile silo?
Tacan
Probably a TACAN site.
Gotta keep it mowed so the Russians keep theirs up too.
Its not TACAN but your close.
First there was ADF for aerial navigaition
Then there was LORAN (A-C)
Followed by VOR (still widely used). See definition below. You can see one of these near Margaritaville on the Wabash too.
And now GPS has taken the dominate role.
"The VHF Omnidirectional Range navigation system, VOR, was probably the most significant aviation invention other than the jet engine. With it, a pilot can simply, accurately, and without ambiguity navigate from Point A to Point B.
The widespread introduction of VORs began in the early 1950s and 50 years later it remains the primary navigation system in the overwhelming majority of aircraft."
YEA, I KNEW THAT....
GEEK!!
it's a VOR indicator for airplanes (VOR = Very high frequency Omni Range).Airplanes tune into these things and figure out how far it is to point B. (or something like that). It's been a long time since High School when I had private pilot ground school....
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