Satellite Photos Reveal Gigantic New Hangars Being Built At Area 51

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Satellite Photos Reveal New Hangars
Being Built AT Area 51, The United States Top Secret Facility 

Area 51, aka Groom Lake, home of flying saucers, and rumored secret aircraft has a new hangar, especially intriguing due to its physical size, and also because of its very peculiar location and timing.

Now, new satellite photos reveal ongoing construction work.
At the very end of the complex weave of runways, taxiways, barracks and buildings is a new, massive structure.

......the 2014 set of satellite photographs reveal yet another huge hanger has been built — this time unusually positioned at the very edge of the runway itself.

The 68.5m wide structure is far from the main facility, putting it out of view of most of Area 51's workers.

What could be so secret as to be kept out of sight from those in Area 51 themselves? And why would it be so close to the runway?    
http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/satellite-photos-reveal-new-hangars-being-built-at-area-51-the-united-states-topsecret-testing-facility/story-fn5fsgyc-1227019444374

Why Is AREA 51 Building A Mysterious New Hangar
And What Will It Hide?

A new engine test cell located towards the northern part of the base appears to have been finalized since the last images were available, and there are some other small improvements that are noticeable around the sprawling installation, but the massive hangar being constructed far south of the aforementioned hangar built in 2007 is quite literally, a big deal.

The location of this new structure, measuring about 225 feet across, is interesting as it is located right off the end of the runway, far south of the rest of the base. This location would keep it out of the immediate view of the general apron area, and would also allow for quick access to the runway, resulting in minimal taxi times.

The fact that this new hangar will have doors on each side, evidenced by the taxiway emanating out from both sides of the structure, means that pre-flight checks, and possibly engine starts, could be executed while under the structure's protective cover. This is beneficial when trying to avoid satellite flyovers.

Although the times when flyovers occur are all known, and operations are planned around them accordingly, such planning is no guarantee that the aircraft will not experience problems while taxing, taking off or landing, thus leaving it exposed to prying eyes in low earth orbit. So having a hangar as close to where the aircraft launches and recovers is beneficial if that aircraft is of an especially sensitive nature.

This new hangar could also provide 'scoot and hide' support for large test articles, once again to protect them from overflying satellites, although this has never been needed in the past half century of operations at Area 51, so it is a little puzzling as to why it would be needed now. Additionally, adding such a facility to just one end of the base's long runway system seems strange. If large scoot and hide shelters are a hard requirement, than putting just one at one end of the base makes little sense.

http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/why-is-area-51-building-a-brand-new-hangar-and-what-wil-1617424839

Collection Of New Images Here:
http://www.terraserver.com/?tid=21&cx=605697&cy=4121888&proj=32611&mpp=2.5&pic=img&prov=dg&stac=2760093d12655fb2321df6baa849dab5

Now, high resolution panoramic photos have emerged of the base confirming just how monstrous this new hangar truly is. http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/new-panoramic-images-show-area-51-s-new-mystery-hanger-1628823466

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Shot very recently from Tikaboo Peak, some 26 miles from the base itself, and posted over at Dreamland Resort, these high-resolution panoramas give us a clear view of just how remote and tall this new facility is (look all the way to the left). They also give us a good perspective of the '2007 hangar' and its view-blocking earth berm, as well as almost the entire base.

From these new images, and with consulting a few trusted sources, we estimate that the hangar will be between 70 and 90 feet tall. This figure would make it large enough to accommodate a 747-8i. The height of this structure may also be telling, as a new low-slung flying wing test article would not need nearly this tall of a hangar to be housed. In fact, America's only known large flying wing, the B-2 Spirit, has traditionally been docked in hangars with low apertures, as the aircraft have no vertical control surfaces.

So why would the USAF build a hangar tall enough to house a jumbo jet? Maybe they are hedging their investment to accommodate presently unknown future projects, or there is something in the works that has a fairly massive, and very much un-stealthy vertical tail.

http://artbell.com/panoramic-images-show-area-51s-new-mystery-hangar-is-gigantic/

Dreamland Resort has the panorama, which I am not sure if they
would allow embedding so just posting the link here:
http://www.dreamlandresort.com/area51/panorama_0814.html

[The Seeker]

Very interesting, BTS; does make one wonder why the need for 2 such large hangers in such a short span of time...
and on opposite ends of the compound...



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