#Inyokern

[yama-bato]

Brouws, Jeff - Eat, Inyokern, California - Robert Koch Gallery

[fidjiefidjie]

Bonjour, bonne journée ☕️ 💼

École primaire à Inyokern, Californie 🇺🇲 USA 1948

Photo de J.R. Eyerman/ Life

[uhohbestie]

Has the route for tamn been released yet?

GOD, THE THING IS--I wanted to do a fun little map thing when I released the official route, BUT!! We have literally so much other stuff to do (both irl and just fun fandom things) that I never get around to it 😭😭

SO THANK YOU FOR BEING PATIENT, I'm putting the TAMN Route below the cut!

San Antonio, TX

Rest Area outside San Antonio, TX

Grassland, TX

Fort Craig Rest Area, NM

Yorba Regional Park, CA

Disneyland, CA

Azusa, CA

West End Gun Club, CA

Adelanto, CA

Boron, CA

Aerial Acres, CA

Atolia (Ghost Town), CA

Johannesburg, CA

Inyokern/Ridgecrest (KS+Scar/Quackity+Grian), CA

Olancha, CA

Bishop, CA

Tahoe City, CA

Paisley, OR

Bend, OR

Yakima, WA

Paradise, WA

Tanner, WA

Beckler River Campground, WA

Glacier Peak, WA

Mt. Baker, WA

Bridal Falls, BC, Canada

Squamish, BC, Canada

Outskirts of Canmore, AB, Canada

NOW. JUST TO BE CLEAR. While these are the real places that informed our route in the fic, we DID take like... huge liberties with some of these locations LOL Because at the end of the day it's fanfic, and we wanted to Make It Fun.

So while some places might be nearly exactly the way they look irl, others are adjusted to fit the pacing or the story or what the plot needed at the time! So if you're ever like, "wait a minute. That doesn't exist in this location irl 🤨" then yeah. Yeah. Because we made it up LMAO

ANYWAYS THERE IT IS!! WE HOPE YOU ENJOY!!!! >:D

[usafphantom2]

One of my favorite experiences with an F-18 was being next to the runway with my kids while VANDY1 blasted out of Inyokern Airport after a fly in. You could feel the power in your chest as it went by. What a beautiful jet!

#vandy1 #vx9 #usnavy

@maurer8photo via X

[captain-price-unofficially]

5-inch spinner rockets being fired out the nose of a modified B-25 Mitchell at a US Navy station in Inyokern, California. This was an experimental system of two revolvers that fire rockets, eliminating the need for underwing rockets.

[wr1t3w1tm3]

Live Editing SEAWOLF - Chapter 2

So this is all new territory for the most part. There'll be some overlap with Chapter 2 from the original work, but what I'm "editing" now is essentially just rewriting.

The post-it notes are a thing I got into IRL going into this semester, because I like to color code my pen, highlighter, pencil, and post-its going to classes every day. Makes everything slightly more bearable. Any who, I basically have a surplus of lime green and classic sticky-notes that I can never use.

Ring doorbell comes from some people down the hall in my dorm. They have a ring doorbell mounted next to their door so they can see who's trying to get in without getting up and going to the peep hole. It's kinda genius.

Google searches 'what kinda shirts to bougie middle to upper middle class white men wear?' goes to images 'oh. button ups'.

Me trying not to make this too long but also living for this tension between Iceman and Theresa? Like bruh, this dude could be intimidating and this is perfect to bring that out. He's COMPACFLT for a damn reason.

To the Perry the Platypus theme song: Tension, tension, tension, trying to build tension, without being bulky. Tension!

Trying to keep dialogue distinct but also cohesive between these characters is... interesting.

God I hope the dialogue is cohesive and makes sense for the characters.

Google searches: Airports in Wyoming. Airports in Alaska. Dirt airstrips in Alaska. Wolf Population Alaska. Images. Alaska national parks. Near islands. Opens website. New tab. Denali national park location. Images. Back. Nearest airport to Denali national park. Nearest airstrips to denali national park. Opens website. New Tab. Healy River Airport to Inyokern airport. Finally finds a flight calculator. Screenshots. (It's 5 hrs and 9 min flight time, but Sliders gotta drive to the airport from his homestead/home so it'll be a bit longer.)

Pages written: 4 plus like a 5th of a 5th page.

Words written: 1,237.

Total words in the rewrite: 4,104 (I made a couple little edits to chapter 1 as well).

[custommikes]

Had an absolute blast at Crafty Kate 's Classic Burgers 5th Annual Car Show in Inyokern Ca. -25 Video: https://youtu.be/rd3syRPCZuw More about Crafty Kate's: https://www.facebook.com/kateCraftykate Grateful for your support,.. =D Subscribe for more here: https://www.youtube.com/@Custommikes?sub confirmation=1 Check out other fun coverages on all of Customikes Social media channels Thanks for Hanging at Customikes! K. Mikael Wallin Customikes/ Kustomikes/ Customikes Select,... 😉 #customikes #customikesexperience #bestsocialmediaexperience #kustomkulturewithoutborders #kustomkulture #kustoms #customs #fun #vintage #classics #cars #automotive #koolrides #mechanicalfun #funatwork #craftykates #classicburgers #inyokern Video by © www.Customikes.com K. Mikael Wallin 2025 https://youtu.be/rd3syRPCZuw

[usaccidents]

INYOKERN, CA (December 22, 2023) — Darren Westby died in a two-car accident on Highway 14 near Highway 178.

[j-r-macready]

An MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter conducts high-altitude landing training in Inyokern, Calif. by Official U.S. Navy Page Via Flickr: INYOKERN, Calif. (April 1, 2021) An MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to the "Black Knights" of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 4, stationed in San Diego, lands in the snow during high-altitude landing training, hosted by Naval Aviation Warfighting Development Center (NAWDC) at Naval Air Station (NAS) Fallon, Nev. The Navy Mountain Flying Course trains pilots and aircrew for challenges associated with flying the aircraft to its limitations in higher density altitudes and power management of the aircraft in this environment. The training conducted during Air Wing Fallon drives air wing integration and ensures that all CVW-2 squadrons are ready to conduct the full range of military operations when they deploy later this year. HSC-4 provides vertical lift search and rescue, logistics, anti-surface warfare, special operations forces support, and combat search and rescue capabilities. (U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Shannon Renfroe)

[gcassel]

Last October I got to see Doc.

[d-vk]

lot

[mountains-and-mayhem]

Day 43-48 - Tehachapi to Walker Pass

We were very excited to reach the next town. The PCT crosses a highway at the historically important Walker Pass (mile 652) which was discovered in 1834 by Joseph Walker and still serves as the southern-most crossing of the Sierras. From there you can hitch to either Inyokern/Ridgecrest (east) or Lake Isabella/Kernville (west). Luckily, we have an old Boy Scout friend from our days working at Camp Bonaparte that lives in Inyokern, and we were very excited to catch up after many years.

We departed Tehachapi (mile 566) in the late afternoon of June 15th (Day 43), and were sad to continue on without our friends Oilspill and Footloose that we had connected with along the Aqueduct. We continued to night hike as the desert wasn't quite finished yet, and there were some very long water carries coming up. Leaving the freeway after a bus ride, we had 16 miles to get to our next water source.

After our quick midnight nap, we arrived the next day at Golden Oaks Spring (mile 583) and prepped for an even longer water carry of 19 miles to Robin Bird Spring. Ian began to despair about all the water weight we had to carry, but Gaelen took this new burden in stride. Cowboy camping after midnight in a grassy depression between oak trees was magical with the moonlight, if midge ridden. The Tehachapi Mountains we were passing through were a distinctly new terrain: merging fluidly between wet coulees of mistletoe laden oak trees and dry, arid hilltops of sagebrush and Joshua trees.

We arrived at Robin Bird Spring (mile 602) the next morning just as everyone camped there was waking. Taking a few quiet moments to eat, drink, and simply share space with other hikers in silence was restorative. A few miles later we reached Landers Meadow (mile 609), our last water source before the longest water carry to date - 35 miles! We slept the afternoon away before departing Landers Meadow, but not before a nice conversation with some retired Jeepsters passing through. With 7 liters of water for Ian and 9 liters for Gaelen, we worked our way nearer to Wyley's Knob before crashing a bit earlier than planned on a Joshua tree topped ridge.

We rose early and easily from our ridgetop campsite before dawn, having now fell into a good night hiking rhythm, but Ian was beginning to feel like he could no longer keep up with Gaelen. Hiking through Joshua trees for most of the day, Ian finally caught up with Gaelen at a water cache before Skinner Peak (mile 631). You see the truth is that there were two water caches maintained by trail angels through this 70 mile stetch of sparse water. However, judging from the comments on Guthooks hikers were drinking an average of 40 gallons every day from each cache! The trail angels seemed to bring 250 gallons each week or so. Napkin math revealed this to be potentially problematic. We DID NOT want to arrive at a water cache expecting to refill and find none, leaving us to face 10-ish miles to the next reliable supply. So, we hoofed the extra weight for water security. Ultimately, the caches were well supplied, but better safe than thirsty.

At the last water cache, Ian napped much longer than advisable and rushed to catch up with Gaelen. Crossing Skinner Peak around 1800, Ian feared the late afternoon rain shower - with distant, rolling thunder - would hinder his progress, but luckily there were no lightning strikes to shelter from. Arriving well past dark at McIver's Cabin (mile 644), Ian rolled out his bag and crashed hoping to find Gaelen in the morning light.

The next morning was June 19 (Day 47), Gaelen was relieved to discover Ian's campsite and we walked the last few miles down to Walker Pass (mile 652). The views of the Sierra Nevada were stunning and breathtaking. Ian tuned into Above & Beyond's Group Therapy #250 Live from the Gorge Amphitheater to really soak up all the positive emotions. Our friend Kirt came to pick us up from the pass with cold beverages and allowed us to crash at his Trantula Ranch in the Red October (his super cool airstream trailer) for the next two nights. It was great fun reconnecting with Kirt and his family: wife Dawn, daughter Cheyenne, and son Schuyler (who had just bought his first house!). All except Dawn had worked at Camp Bonaparte, though Cheyenne during years we had not. Thank you again Kirt & Dawn for hosting us!

Holy wow! We were so close to the Sierras we could taste them. Their every glimpse, the very idea of their presence, filled all of our imaginings. THIS was what we had been waiting for. If it had not been for Ian's continually aching feet, this would have been a time of shared, extreme exuberance. As it stood, Gaelen was always a few miles ahead, a few thoughts in front.

[joeinct]

Eat, Inyokern, CA, Photo by Jeff Brouws, 1991

[wr1t3w1tm3]

Live Editing SEAWOLF - Chapter 2 - Part 2

I just moved locations. We're basically continuing right from the last live update.

Looks up Inyokern airport to try and find Maverick's Hangar (thats where it is IRL). Can't find the Hangar. Ooh look. Rocks. I'll use those.

Can't figure out distant between rocks and runway... eh, mile's fine.

And, that's a wrap. I wanna crochet now.

[acorn-field]

Maverick’s Hangar

Maverick’s Hangar image

Photo of the hangar 

Picture of the Kodiak hangar at the Inyokern Airport

Panoramic view of the facility

Panoramic view in front of the hangar

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Faded painting on the hangar door - USNOTS’s Jackrabbit base logo

From wiki:

In the early 1930s, an emergency landing field had been built by the Works Progress Administration in the Mojave Desert near the small town of Inyokern, California. Opened in 1935, the field was acquired by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) in 1942. In November 1943 it was transferred to the Navy, which established China Lake as the Naval Ordnance Test Station (NOTS).

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FROM ADG DESIGN PRESENTATION

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Sources

- https://assets.adg.org/media/submissions/2022-11-21_07-35-45/TOP_GUN_MAVERICK_ADG_DESIGN_PRESENTATION_221107_v1d.pdf

- http://filmiyk.com/facilities_structures/facilities_structures.html

- https://cnrsw.cnic.navy.mil/Installations/NAWS-China-Lake/About/History/

- https://www.instagram.com/p/Cgu6gA6PjoH/?hl=en

[usafphantom2]

Ronnie Bell Following

Loading a Tiny Tim on PBJ Mitchell

Ship-to-ship missile Tiny Tim is loaded on to a PBJ Mitchell belonging to Squadron VMB-612, United States Marine Corps on the island of Iwo Jima August 1945.

Launch of "Tiny Tim" developed by the California Institute of technology, adopted in 1945, mass of 580 kg (1.280 pounds), flight speed 1.480 km/h (810 ft/s). Was used at the very end of the second world war at the battle of Okinawa.

The Tiny Tim was an American air to ground rocket used near the end of the Second World War. One source states it was built in response to a US Navy requirement for an anti-shipping rocket capable of hitting ships outside of their anti-aircraft range, with a payload capable of sinking heavy shipping. However, according to the China Lake Weapons Digest, the Tiny Tim was

designed by the Caltech-China Lake team as a bunker-buster, Tim was the first large aircraft rocket, and, although it saw only limited service in WWII, it helped form the foundations of many postwar developments in rocketry.

For a warhead, Tiny Tim utilized a 500 lb semi-armor-piercing high explosive bomb. It had a maximum range of 1,500 meters (1,640 yards).

They were used by the US Navy and US Marine Corps near the end of the war during the battle of Okinawa, and during the Korean war. A problem with the sheer power of the rocket motor causing damage to the firing aircraft was resolved by having the Tiny Tim drop like a bomb, and a lanyard attached to the rocket would snap, causing the rocket to ignite . Common targets included coastal defense guns, bridges, pill boxes, tanks, and shipping. An ambitious operation to use the Tiny Tim against German V-1 sites as part of Operation Crossbow, code-named Project Danny, was planned but cancelled before the squadrons assigned could be deployed to Europe.

Common Tiny Tim delivery aircraft during the Second World War included the F4U Corsair, F6F Hellcat, TBM Avenger, and the SB2C Helldiver.

After World War Two the US Navy's rocket laboratory at Inyokern, California developed an even larger version of the Tiny Tim, called "Richard", which was 14 inches in diameter and most likely the largest air to surface unguided rocket ever developed for the US military. While tested, it was never placed in production. The US Navy also experimented with a version of the Tiny Tim which was a two-stage rocket, with another Tiny Tim rocket motor mounted behind a complete Tiny Tim. Like the Richard it never moved beyond the R&D stage

Via Flickr