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Palmdale

A week ago I drove out to Palmdale to see the intersections of the streets there. Palmdale is organized, Lancaster as well, on a grid where the smaller street names are subsets of the major streets (e.g. E Avenue P, E Ave. P-2, E Ave. P-3, et cetera). Unfortunately the pictures I wanted to take were not possible. Also a quick look at Google maps shows the overall consistency of the street plans aren’t there. Still it was something I wanted to explore. I did go to the Joe Davies Heritage Airpark at Palmdale Plant 42, which has a collection of aircraft that were flown, tested, designed, produced or modified at the facilities.

Here is the Triumph that was designed by Burt Rutan, who in addition to designing this aircraft has a long list of accomplishments in aerospace engineering including the Voyager, the first aircraft to fly around the earth without stopping or refueling in 1986.