But where is Alameda?? April 13
I live in this great little place called Alameda, California. We’re an island. We weren’t always an island, but some enterprising folks thought it would be nice if Oakland had a deep water port, so at the turn of the 20th century, they dredged out some marshland to completely separate Alameda from Oakland. …
Read more on the Alameda Project Site
I just moved the whole thing onto its own blog. The site look and content is still getting dialed in.
Katy Apr 14
Doesn’t Mythbusters use the Alameda airstrip when they need to crash stuff into other stuff?
ben Apr 14
Yep, they’re usually on runway 7/25 which is directly north of the big X I linked to. In google maps, it has a bunch of tents on it– GM and I think a few others do special events where you can drive all of their cars on tracks they set up with cones & lines– if you screw up, you’ve got a 200-foot-wide runway and surrounding field to land the car in without crashiing it.
Unfortuneately, the Mythbusters are really hard to connect with, as their popularity is unweidly. (Plus, they film on weekdays like reasonable people, not that I wouldn’t give up a day of the day job to go shoot them)