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27 SF-SL Coal Canyon aviation arrow
Nevada

Standing atop a recently painted yellow aviation arrow near Lovelock, Nevada, part of the arrow & beacon airmail system.  Before our current GPS satellite & radar, airplane pilots who did transcontinental airmail routes at night would fly following these large cement arrows, often accompanied by beacons with a light.  While there were over 1500 of them across the country back in the day, about 100 of them remain today, decaying & forgotten like this one.  This one is along the San Francisco to Salt Lake City airway, to which the route was established on September 8, 1920 & discontinued on November 30, 1930.

 

This view is taken surrounded in a giant dust storm (haboob) formed from thunderstorms & winds originating from the Reno area.  Having come from that way, I had driven through it as it was quite gusty, most of the dust picked up early on & especially arising from the dry Humboldt Sink.

Copyright: William L
Type: Spherical
Resolution: 12804x6402
Taken: 03/06/2021
Uploaded: 09/07/2021
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Tags: airway beacon; arrow and beacon; nevada; dust storm; lovelock; upper valley; great basin; sand storm; thunderstorm; interstate 80; aviation; air mail; 27 sf-sl; coal canyon; aviation arrow; airmail
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