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Area 51 - Groom Lake, NV
Hangar 18

02 April 2000 - IKONOS 1-meter Imagery

The largest hangar on the base, Hangar 18 takes up approximately 51,366 square feet capable of accomodating aircraft with a wingspan of 235 feet, and a length of 190 feet. The height of Hangar 18 is estimated to be eight stories. Reports claim this high bay building is used to mate a secret hypersonic aircraft to its launch vehicle.

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For ease of interpretability, unlike the other images of Area 51, this enlargement of the image of Hangar 18 has been shifted so that North is to the bottom [as is standard practice in the national imagery exploitation community, where one of the first things a novice "squint" learns is that "shadows fall to the bottom"].

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