Google Maps Scavenger Hunt

I'm gonna go with Souix Gateway Airport...
http://maps.google.com/maps?sourceid=navcl...sa=N&tab=il

I trust the "heaven" reference is from Field of Dreams? (Well, that is how I found this answer... I started with that quote, leading me to the film, the response "No, its Iowa" then a search on Iowa airports, then looking for one near a river...)


Staying with a "heavenly" reference... Mine... (a departure from airports, so to speak)

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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(ChristoB @ Jul 30 2007, 12:47 PM) [snapback]487572[/snapback]</div>

Correct location, but completely unrelated to Field of Dreams. On July 19, 1989, the bypass fan of United Airlines Flight 232's DC-10's center engine failed catastrophically, throwing engine fragments like shrapnel through much of the empennage, breaching all three hydraulic systems, and rendering the aircraft uncontrollable with the control surfaces. Capt. Al Haynes & his crew succeeded in bringing the DC-10 down under marginal control using differential thrust on the wing engines to the Sioux City Airport, actually putting the aircraft down on the runway, but at the last second the starboard wing dropped & dug its wingtip, cartwheeling the DC-10 and breaking it up, coming to rest inverted in the cornfields adjacent the runway. Nonetheless, more than half the passengers survived, and most of the crew (including Al Haynes). As survivors emerged from the wreckage into the cornfield to encounter rescue workers, they were disoriented and some of them asked (thinking they had been killed) "Is this heaven?" or "Are we in heaven?" "No, you're in Iowa" the rescuers replied.

MB

 

Ah! Sounds like the writers for the movie were just as familiar with the story of Flight 232!

 

I'll have to pass again - guessed it right away.

MB

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(ChristoB @ Jul 30 2007, 03:47 PM) [snapback]487572[/snapback]</div>

Washington National Cathedral

Let's try someplace a bit less heavenly

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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Martin Gundel @ Jul 30 2007, 07:50 PM) [snapback]487795[/snapback]</div>

Well, Hell's Kitchen it ain't, nor either of the Devil's Lakes (in Wisconsin or in North Dakota), so we may need some clues ---

MB

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(airportkid @ Jul 31 2007, 02:43 AM) [snapback]487891[/snapback]</div>

You're VERY warm, and so is the site!

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Martin Gundel @ Jul 30 2007, 09:50 PM) [snapback]487795[/snapback]</div>

Hell,Michigan
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=he...p;z=17&om=1

This may be too easy.
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(efusco @ Jul 31 2007, 11:51 AM) [snapback]488116[/snapback]</div>

oops
heres another.
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Looks like Mecca to me!
Mecca...
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&safe...sa=N&tab=wl


[EDIT: And here's my new one:]
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Maybe I'm not copying the link correctly... I did a search on Mecca, Saudi Arabia... zoom in 2 or 3 times, and scroll over to the right... then zoom in more. Here's a "higher up" photo from that same address I pasted. Green Arrow is Google's centermark, green circle is my addition.

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I wonder if it is some kind of vast complex of housing, for when Mecca gets the really, really huge influx of pilgrims each year?

 

[EDIT: And here's my new one:]
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IT's the Biltmore Estate http://maps.google.com/maps?t=k&q=35.5...p;z=17&om=1

My MIL visited that a few years ago on a trip up to see us.

Will post another one soon.

Mrs. Toups

 

Will post another one soon.

Mrs. Toups
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This is where I got my Master's, and dh became Dr. Toups. The hint is that we could have taken a single route, with no changing to another path to reach graduate school, from our place of graduation from college.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Toups @ Jul 31 2007, 04:57 PM) [snapback]488286[/snapback]</div>

Gee, I am guess I am disqualified from posting the answer.