McDonnell Douglas Long Beach

[Gregory]

Decided to drive over to Long Beach today. The weather was fine..
74°F and sunny!! Found the Phillips 66 Refinery in Carson CA on the
way over there.

Anyway.. have wanted to see this place for a LONG time, and it finally
happened. Weird huh, almost as if someone is monitoring this forum and
making it happen... Naaah!! :))


Here is just a sample of the 104 (4000 x 2248) hi-res photos taken.


Go WIDE to 1280 pixels for these!!


Through the fence on Conant Street straight on..

http://home.comcast.net/~flightsim/DC_Jets_factory.jpg


Wide angle from the south east.. the place is a ghost town!!

http://home.comcast.net/~flightsim/DC_Jets_east.jpg


Zoomed SE angle... a little grainy from the zoom:

http://home.comcast.net/~flightsim/DC_Jets_east_zoom.jpg


Douglas Park looking west (east side of monument in shade with
compensation.)

http://home.comcast.net/~flightsim/Douglas_Aircraft_1940.jpg


West side of Douglas Park rotary. Suggest to locate this on G-Earth.

http://home.comcast.net/~flightsim/Douglas_Park.jpg


Zoomed in close w/Fly DC Jets 1-1/2 blocks away..

http://home.comcast.net/~flightsim/Glas_Park_DC_Jets.jpg


It's amazing to actually be here, and get to see this place. Its where
DC-9s and MD-80's were built.. yes? The DC-10 assy buildings have
all been raised (torn down.) The desolate scene is quite depressing.
I think production has come to a halt? As an old timer said at the
Watsonville Air Show in 2011.. "that's back when we used to make
things in this country!!"


-G


more kool pic to come..

[Gregory]

On Sat, 15 Jun 2013 18:22:11 -0700, Gregory
<flights...@bkwds.comcast.net> wrote:
>
>Here is just a sample of the 104 hi-res (4000 x 2248) photos taken today, Part II

>
>Go WIDE to 1280 pixels for these!!
>

Conant St.. south west view:

http://home.comcast.net/~flightsim/Conant_St_SW.jpg


Conant St.. east (shady side) view:

http://home.comcast.net/~flightsim/Conant_St_East.jpg


Rear of DC Jets factory:

http://home.comcast.net/~flightsim/DC_Jets_rear.jpg


Fly DC Jets sign from gate at 4501 Conant St entrance:

http://home.comcast.net/~flightsim/Fly_DC_Jets_4501_Conant_St.jpg


Douglas Park view from north (afternoon sun from right.) On either
side are empty lots concealed from view by chain-link fence with
woven covering. Fancy trees line the thoroughfare on either side.
(high zoom - long street)

http://home.comcast.net/~flightsim/Douglas_Park_north.jpg


Obviously a facade to hide 10 acres of DIRT on either side.


It's sad really. { sniff }


-G

[Gregory]

On Sat, 15 Jun 2013 18:22:11 -0700, Gregory
<flights...@bkwds.comcast.net> wrote:
>

>A few more of the 104 hi-res (4000 x 2248) photos taken yesterday, Part III

>
>Go WIDE to 1280 pixels for these!!

Suppose this will be the last of the Douglas Park photos. Even with no
response I'm sure there are a few who find them interesting.


First lets see a GE view referencing the photos. It was fun to make!

http://home.comcast.net/~flightsim/Douglas_Park_GE_256.png


Boeing HQ is labeled above. Below is a pic of HQ from the gate at 4501
Conant St. The DC Jets sign is off to the RIGHT.

http://home.comcast.net/~flightsim/Boeing_site_HQ.jpg


Another view of HQ to put things in perspective, looking NE from
circle / round-about. Blue mesh hides DIRT lots.

http://home.comcast.net/~flightsim/Boeing-HQ_from_Circle.jpg


From circle looking at Boeing 717 factory, illuminated trees an all.
Nice balls dude!

http://home.comcast.net/~flightsim/Douglas_Park_to_Jets_sign.jpg


Douglas Park sign.

http://home.comcast.net/~flightsim/Douglas_Park_sign.jpg


The DP.org URL on the sign doesn't work but I found a related PDF doc.

http://www.cbre.us/o/occentral/AssetLibrary/Douglas%20Park.pdf



Ok that's it. Another fine weekend for exploring aerospace, rock
concert and other CT related places. :))


-G

[John Ward]

Hi Gregory,

I, for one, mate, have been checking them all out.

I'm sure many others have been too.

Great photography, I just haven't felt I could add anything useful...

Regards,
John Ward

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[Tom Garrett]

"Gregory" wrote in message
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thanks, Gregory, for sharing these photos. I found them very interesting.
Wondering what scale those airplanes are flying around the ball?
Tom in Tucson

[Gregory]

On Sun, 16 Jun 2013 13:32:19 -0700, "Tom Garrett" <garre...@cox.net>
wrote:

>
>Ok that's it. Another fine weekend for exploring aerospace, rock concert and other CT related places. :))
>
>
> -G
>
>thanks, Gregory, for sharing these photos. I found them very interesting.
>Wondering what scale those airplanes are flying around the ball?
>Tom in Tucson

Don't know about the scale. You'd need to find the size of the globe
or pedestal as a reference.

Have found some related videos, the first one describes the factory
building numbers and what airplanes were built there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpHmrc-SpTg we're closed now!


ANd this one about MD-80 production and flight.. (1984)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lre_O07S6fI


There are lots more on U-tube.


-G

[Gregory]

On Sat, 15 Jun 2013 18:22:11 -0700, Gregory
<flights...@bkwds.comcast.net> wrote:

>

>Decided to drive over to Long Beach today.

Hey.. is that the Douglas 'globe' at 00:30 sec in the video?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCi3rABQffE


Now I'm pretty sure we got robbed!


-G