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[Vancanek]

Nice! Thanks Nighthawk and good luck!

[Nighthawk]

Gotta hand it to the "powers that be"... the initial photos made it really easy to find this place.

I'm sitting in front of the building right now (I'm sitting literally where picture #5 was taken); it's about 30 minutes until they open. Using UM's public free wireless Internet. Taken photos of my trek so far.

Hope this is worth it...

[pancito]

[Nighthawk]

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED, I think...

Taped under the brown circular center unit were two pieces of paper. I won't be able to scan or provide photos of them until later today, but here's my best description.


PAGE 1, FRONT:

An advertisement for a concert, a "Tour of Peace". Drawing of a guy with his back to you and the words "CCCP" and "Uranium 5" on the back of his jacket. Tucked under his jacket and in to the back of his pants is a revolver.

Around him are numerous bands, I assume. I'll get a photo/scan of it so you can see them all.

On the bottom right is an image of some sort of medal. Can't make it out that well what it says on the left side, but the right side clearly says "CCCP.

At the bottom left is a notice of the concert venue:

Miami, Florida
December 25 - 31
Dolphin Stadium


PAGE 1, BACK:

Handwritten in pencil and in big letters, two things:

crowne.mfbiz.com

$89,000,000


PAGE 2, FRONT:

A copy of a Travelocity confirmation of ticket purchase, received by someone's GMail account. The identifiable information (email address, destination city, trip ID, phone number, date of issue and the e-ticket URL) have been blanked out.

At the bottom is a copy of what I can assume is a boarding pass:

Aeroflot (see below)
Ticket # 5554405524187 1
For Robert Kelleher
From Miami, Florida to Houston, Texas
First class, Seat 35

Things of note, spoilered because of potential "meta" relevance:

[pancito]

Great work Nighthawk. Thanks!

[degravedi]

Nighthawk, you're awesome! Great job!

[Tim]

Yeah, awesome job, Nighthawk!

[InTheBox]

Fantastic job Nighthawk! You're awesome!

When did you guys first check out the site? There seems to be a count-up in the right side of the header that started at about midnight, maybe someone logged on then?

[Boomer52]

[pancito]

Countup=Clock. So yeah, it started at midnight.

So what are we paying $89 million for?

Interesting choice of music for a defense contractor

And last, since it was in a previous incarnation the topic of some debate, HERE. (Lower left corner of the pic] And it's still a Titan 2...

[InTheBox]

[sirpoins]

Great job nighthawk..

[pancito]

I was bored, so I went looking for our plane.



It's actually a Ekranoplan KM the "Caspian Sea Monster." It's technically a boat, not a plane, though it does fly, sort of. Even more technically it's a type of ground effect vehicle. Wiki article here.

Here it is decked out as a missle platform...



And a cool vid.

[Tim]

Nice... How did you end up finding it? I looked for a bit and couldn't find anything... Good job!

[Nighthawk]

CRAP!

Apparently, the camera I was using (one of those "one use" cameras) sucked for indoor shots, so the indoor shots came out really bad.

This includes the documents, so y'all are going to have to wait until I can scan them later tonight.

The images that are legible are here:
http://www.brainclouds.net/Darklight/?Cmd=viewGallery&GG=11

Images 6-9 are virtually identical to the ones on the site... only with a better camera.

Image #10 is contrast adjusted because of bad quality.

Isn't the weather just HORRIBLE for such a thing in pic #3?

Again, I'll re-scan the actual documents tonight.