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Space base John F. Kennedy - NASA - Military | USA -
[19/09/2006]
Place : Merritt island, Florida.
Description : Canaveral Cape is an American launching base located in Florida that was created in 1959. It is a military zone.
Its administrative name is John F. Kennedy Space Center. This base has the highest travelling tower in the world (377 feet - 115 m).
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Black Bird A-12 - Military | USA -
[19/09/2006]
Place : New York, New Jersey.
Description : The SR-71 Blackbird was conceived like the successor of Lockheed U-2: an observation aircraft usable to the top of "hostile theatres of operations".
The structure of BlackBird is out of Titanium, whose fusion takes place with 1660 °C, which enables him to reach higher speeds.
Scale :
55,6 feet - 16,94 m
Lenght :
107.4 feet - 32.74 m
Height :
18,5 feet - 5.64 m
Maximum mass :
77100 kg
Maximum speed :
2200 mph- 3532 km/h
Ceiling :
85300 feet - 26000 m
Maximum distance :
2980 miles - 4800 km |
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Jetstar VC-140b - Military | USA -
[19/09/2006]
Lieu : Andrews Airforce Base, Morningside, Virginia.
Description : Created in 1957, JetStar transported presidents Nixon, Johnson, Ford and Carter during their displacements. JetStar is the first presidential plane in the United States, called " Air Force One " nowadays.
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B-52 - Military | USA -
[19/09/2006]
Place : Between Monument and Colorado Spring, Colorado.
Description : First B-52 Bomber flight was in 1952 with the US Air Force. B-52 objective was to carry the American nuclear weapons. It is one of the symbol of the cold war and was in 1952 one of the largest planes in the world.
It was used in the Vietnam and Iraq war. Of a scale of 185 feet (56.39 m) it can reach 593 mph (955 km/h) and can traverse 7450 miles (12000 km) of a feature.
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Planes cimetery - Military | USA -
[19/09/2006]
Place : Tucson, Arizona.
Description : This place is a cemetery of planes. There are 2000 planes stored in full desert because of the American disarmament program. These 2000 planes represent half of all the American military fleet and will be able, in the event of war, all to be given in service in only six months. You will notice can be that certain their wings broken and brought back along the fuselage have, it is to show to the Russians via the images made by their satellites that American respects their engagement in term of rate/rhythm of disarmament.
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Water bomber helicopter - Military | USA -
[19/09/2006]
Place : Aurora, Colorado.
Description : A water bomber helicopter is a helicopter conceived to fight against the small forest fires and the major fires. The helicopter of this view transports a head of water at the end of a sling (cable hung under the helicopter), one speaks about "bucket" or "bambi bucket".
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JFK aircraft-Carrier - Military | USA -
[19/09/2006]
Place : Mayport Basin, Jaksonville, Florida.
Description : The aircraft-carrier "John Fitzerald Kennedy" belongs to the U.S. Navy. Appeared in 1964, this nonnuclear aircraft-carrier is always active in 2006.
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E2 - Hawkeye - Military | USA -
[19/09/2006]
Place : Mugu lagoon, Oxnard, California.
Description : Grumman E-2 Hawkeye is a monitoring plane for any weather any transportable by aircraft carrier that was developed by the American manufacturer Grumman.
E-2 Hawkeye is in working since 1964 and its crew is composed of five men. Apart from the American navy, it is also used by the French Naval Aviation and the Air Forces of Taiwan, Mexico, Israel, Singapore, Japan and Egypt. |
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Black Bird (SR-71) - Military | USA -
[19/09/2006]
Place : Palmdale, California.
Description : Blackbird Airpark (AFFTC Museum) is an open museum since 1991. This museum at summer set up in order to preserve the memory of Black Bird, able to reach the speed of 2194 mph (3532 km/h).
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The True Lies bridge - VIP | USA -
[09/09/2006]
Place : Between Ohio Key and Pigeon Key, Florida.
Description : The famous scene of car the track car and the helicopter of the True Lies movie was filmed on this bridge (Overseas Avenue).
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Las Vegas pyramid - Monuments | USA -
[06/09/2006]
Place : Las Vegas, Nevada.
Description : The Luxor hotel pyamid was inaugurated in 1993, it measures 360 feet (110 m) height! It comprises 4400 luxury rooms, 6 restaurants, an Olympic swimming pool, a movie theater, etc .
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"haute couture" island - Strange | USA -
[06/09/2006]
Place : Thousand Islands, Everglades, Florida.
Description : This island located near to the Florida coast seems to be repaired, you will observe the seams still present. They form the largest mangroves estuary in the world.
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White house - Monuments | USA -
[06/09/2006]
Place : Washington.
Description : The White House is the official residence and the principal place of work of the United States President. Built in 1790, it counts 132 rooms. 5000 people visit every day"by far" the white house. Note : the white house roof was censured.
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The Superman Daily Planet - VIP | USA -
[28/08/2006]
Place : Daily Planet, New York.
Description : It is there, in New York, that the scenes of Daily Planet were turned.
We find there the helicopter scene with Loïs Layne in Superman 1.
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World Trade Center : Ground 0 - Monuments| USA -
[27/08/2006]
Place : South of Manhattan, New York.
Description : World Trade Center were a 7 buildings complex of businesses carried out between 1969 and 1977. Destroyed the September 11, 2001, the freedom tower will replace World Trade Center and will be completed in 2011.
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Rushmore mount - Monuments | USA -
[27/08/2006]
Place : Black Hills, South Dakota.
Description : The giant sculptures of the Rushmore mount are something of single in the world.
The four titanic portraits of American presidents are directly engraved in a cliff in the middle of Black Hills, in South Dakota.
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Pentagone - Monuments | USA -
[06/08/2006]
Place : Arlington.
Description : This building shelters the Defence Department of the United States of America. More than 26 000 people work there, civil and soldiers. Its nameis due to its pentagon form. This 5 floors building, inaugurated on January 15, 1943, is the vastest office building of the world, with its 14 mile (28 km) corridors. With its 5 concentric rings, the pentagone was built with reinforced concrete by a steel reinforcement. The construction of the Pentagon began on September 11, 1941.
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Julio Iglésias house - VIP | USA -
[06/08/2006]
Place : Indian Creek Country Club, Florida.
Description : Julio Iglesias (Julio Jose Iglesias of Cueva), was born in Madrid in September 23, 1943. Julio Iglesias is a Spanish singer. He recorded 77 discs in various languages and sold on the whole more than 250 000 000 albums.
He was, at first of all, a professional footballer in Real Madrid, playing post of goalkeeper, before devoting himself to the music, in the register of the romantic crooner. |
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Eddie Murphy house - VIP | USA -
[06/08/2006]
Place : Beverly Hills, California.
Description : Eddie Murphy, of his true name Edward Regan Murphy, is an American actor, born on April 3, 1961 in Brooklyn, in the USA. He proves very gifted for the imitation and the comedy as of his more tender childhood and gives his first representation in public at 15 years old in his college.
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Denzel Washington house - VIP | USA -
[06/08/2006]
Place : Beverly Hills, California.
Description : Denzel Washington is an American actor. He was born on December 28, 1954 in Mount Vernon in the New York State.
It is with "Philadelphia" (with Tom Hanks) that Denzel Washington became a known actor.
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Clint Eastwood house - VIP | USA -
[06/08/2006]
Place : Beverly Hills, California.
Description : Clint Eastwood is an actor, realizer and American producer, born on May 31, 1930 in San Francisco, California.
Clint Eastwood is an actor with the multiple facets, often ambivalent, as the diversity of the roles shows it which it had. But it is also a complete artist, actor, musician, and realizer.
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Chuck Norris house - VIP | USA -
[06/08/2006]
Place : Richardson, Texas.
Description : Carlos Ray Norris Jr. (born on March 10, 1940), more known under the name of Chuck Norris is an American actor specialized in action movies. He is also a specialist in martial arts.
Celebrate amongst other things for its series "Walker Texas Rangers", he also made a film with Bruce Lee.
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Bill Clinton house - VIP | USA -
[06/08/2006]
Place : New Castle, Connecticut.
Description : William Jefferson Clinton, more known under the name of Bill Clinton, born in 1946, is the forty-second president of the United States of America. Bill Clinton was elected for two four years mandates (1993 to 2001). |
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André Agassi house - VIP | USA -
[06/08/2006]
Place : Las Vegas, Nevada.
Description : André Agassi (American, born on April 29, 1970 in Las Vegas) is a professional tennis player, recently on retirement.
Called Kid of Las Vegas, Andre Agassi is one of the rare players to have imposed itself in the four tournaments of the Large Slam (disputed on four different surfaces). It is regarded as the best relancor of the circuit.
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Michael Jordan house - VIP | USA -
[06/08/2006]
Place : Bannockbum, Illinois.
Description : Michael Jeffrey Jordan was born on February 17, 1963 in Brooklyn, (New York). He is of the American player of basketball having evolved in the North-American NBA championship of basketball of 1984 to 2003.
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Bill Gates house - VIP | USA -
[06/08/2006]
Place : Clyde Hill, Bellevue, Washington.
Description : This is the property of the richest man of the world: Bill Gates (Microsoft).
It has Co-founded Microsoft in 1975, his fortune is 51 billion dollar estimated.
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