Cubdriver

Cubdriver

Cubdriver

Wikipedia- Very Large Array

TPROP4ever

Thats the Gov cover up, in reality what they dont want you to know is HD tv is Alien Technology from a planet called "Farqualward". Our national Debt was spent on bringing you better tv for the Super Bowl, by the way the Farqualwardians invented football too. They created demand for their product, the proof is right in front of you.....PBBBBBBBBTTTT

Rebuilt

Those are fantastic photos. I could have used them a few weeks ago when I was explaining to my classes about the VLA. I was able to show them some pictures off the internet, but yours are outstanding.

Cubdriver

Feel free to download them- I am not in for the money.

Planespotta

Kinda Star Wars-esque. I like it!

hotshot

Is anyone allowed to get that close to the antennas? Ive been wanting to visit there for awhile now, wasnt sure how close up you could get tho.

Cubdriver

They have a couple of dishes roped off to use for the self-tour. You can walk around those dishes but all the others are off-limits. My friend and I were surprised that we could go to the maintenance building and take a picture of that, but we could. The place is kind of ghostly looking and they have not spent any real money on it in decades. It is like stepping back into 1982, a bit unnerving. There was not one soul on the premises at the time, when we were taking our self-tour although it was open. There are a lot of old army trucks sitting around and rusty equipment. BTW, the movie Contact with Jodie Foster had several scenes shot there, but they did not call it the VLA in the movie and the dishes do not produce sound, they produce radio images. Also, there are only 27 dishes not the hundred or so they made with special effects in the Contact movie.

Ftrooppilot