Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1998 08:50:23 +1000
From: Tzu-Pei Chen <tchen@ardebil.com.au>
Subject: Re: |SKML| Re: Woomera

G'day,

>I spent over four years there while my father worked at joint defence.

Wow! Lucky you <g> Still, it must have been quite an experience. Not many
people can claim to have lived there. I still find myself there roughly
once a year (bit groundhog dayish actually). But I can't imagine what it
would be like to be there for years on end. For those of you who haven't
been to Woomera, here's a small taste of the scenery. This is a view on
short finals to the 'international airport', note the cluttered skyline... ;) 

   http://www.ardebil.com.au/basement/misc/wmra_sf.jpg  (15K)

>For those in other countries.  Woomera was a testing ground for rockets,

And a great place for Swat Kat fans. The range is littered with these great
underground bunkers, one which springs to mind in particular was designed
to mimic the insides of a missle frigate. I can't help looking around and
then thinking of Jake and Chance setting up their secret hangar and
training facilities there. It's all just lying around, and is exactly the
type of thing they'd want. So perhaps that's what they found at the
junkyard, a decommed military base. While on the subject of where our
heroes are getting all there neat stuff, I always saw them just breaking
into Enforcer HQ every once and a while and errr, borrowing things. You
can't get everything you want from a junkyard.

btw. In reality SAS units and the like really do go to Woomera and run amok
round all the old buildings and bunkers training.

>testing area for Austraila's space program.

Except that we don't have a space program :(

See ya! :) Tzup
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