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For those using or considering BackCountry Navigator, they started a kickstarter campaign for a new version. I have been using BackCountry for years on my phone, but use National Geographic Topo (no longer supported) on the laptop in my truck. The new version of BackCountry will allow web based...

This was a scouting trip to determine the best route for getting to an area where a USN plane had crashed in 1955, and to also see the Black Rock Desert. While I was hoping to hike and look for the crash site, I knew realistically it was going to be just a scouting trip. There were three...

The speedometer from my old `89 Toyota truck! The memories of those many good miles :smiley_drive: After replacing the spedo I put another 50,000+ miles on it when the right front lower A-arm clipped a rock hiding behind a clump of grass sticking up like the equivalent of an iceberg sticking...

My friend Robb, one of my mentors when I first started hunting crashed planes, stopped by to visit a couple days before Thanksgiving. We had planned a two-day trip to get out and search for crash sites like we did in the old days, but the first major winter storm was moving through on the day we...

The PBY has always been the plane in my mind to do this type of trip, low & slow, not to mention nostalgic. http://www.michaelprophet.com/News_articles/PeterStuyv.html

So after one weekend of following the San Francisco to Salt Lake 1930s airway beacons in Central NV (Part One), I headed out to do the same on the following weekend. This time my wife Rasa came along. The plan was to spend Saturday following the old airway route and check out possible beacon...

I am in the process of converting my camp trailer to run stock Toyota rims so both trailer & truck run the same wheel & tire. I switched over to the Dexter K08-250-91 Hub, but it has 1/2"-20 Wheel Studs. I could just get SAE lug nuts to work with the Toyota rims, but I would rather replace the...

After working on the New Mexico Airway Beacon Survey http://expeditionportal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=46648, I decided to start looking for beacons closer to home whenever I go out looking for aircraft crash sites. Fortunately the San Francisco to Salt Lake airway runs right through central NV...

This is a trip report from an aviation archaeology Passport in Time project I participated in a few weeks back. Between 1923 and 1933, approximately 1,500 airway beacons - early night navigation systems consisting of lighted towers and concrete arrows designed to guide airplanes - were...

Several months back, I had been contacted by an archaeologist who had found an old aircraft crash site while doing a survey. I suspected it was an F-100 that I had been researching and thought I would take this rare free weekend to check it out and look for several other crash sites in the area...

I research and look for old aircraft crash sites. As I had been traveling most of the summer, my wife & I have not had a chance to go out camping. So the weekend before last we took 3 days to look for some old plane crashes and explore some hot springs in Nevada. Hope you enjoy the photos, some...