New Area 51 Airway

 

Last Friday, the 12th of March, something very strange happened near Area 51. The Federal Aviation Administration issued a "NOTAM- Notice to Airmen" giving special instructions to pilots and air traffic controllers. This NOTAM stated that a volume of restricted airspace was being created. This airspace is actually an airway. It is 426 miles long, twenty nautical miles wide and 15,000 feet high. It runs from Area 51 to the Pacific coast between four waypoints. The first leg is from the secret base to a spot near the California border, and then straight to the coastline which is crosses just south of Monterey. Then it turns northwest just outside the twelve mile limit and then goes west again off San Francisco Bay. The airway was only temporary and lasted from 5.45 PM on Friday to 8.15 PM on Saturday. During that time no other air traffic was allowed to enter that zone. This was not really a problem because of its altitude. Its base was 45,000 feet, which is higher than most commercial airliners fly and it topped out at 60,000 feet. Most aircraft are not capable of reaching that altitude. Concorde used to, but it no longer flies. The news was reported on the Dreamland Resort website, which is a superb resource for news about Area 51. Source: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/39787/mysterious-high-altitude-flight-corridor-was-opened-up-between-area-51-and-the-pacific. (Thanks to my Facebook friend who made me aware of this.) The cause of this mysterious development is obvious; a classified aerial mission was underway. The aircraft involved may well be one of the new highly secretive spy planes or strike bombers that were probably being housed in the new hangars that I reported on previously, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2015/07/area-51-extension.html and: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2020/04/area-51-new-build.html. Of course, as soon as the NOTAM was issued thousands of plane-spotters hot-tailed it to places underneath this enigmatic air corridor to try and get a glimpse of the covert wonder passing by. I've not heard of any reports of success, but it was worth a try. I suspect the plane will only cross the populated areas at night and being so high up it will be difficult to see. The plane-spotters will no doubt have brought telescopes. It will also fly without navigation lights or radio transponders. If anybody manages to obtain a suitable radar set then they are likely to be foiled still because one of the drives of today's aviation technology is making aircraft radar illusive. What was the aircraft's mission? Nobody knows that except those involved. Maybe it was just a training exercise or mechanical trials. Maybe it was spying on Russia or North Korea. I'll keep a lookout for more events like this.
See here for more background: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2013/08/area-51-revealed.html.
And: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2009/04/area-51-disclosed.html.
And: http://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2007/12/billion-dollar-secret.html.
And: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2020/03/project-blue-book-series-2-episode-3.html.