On Saturday, December 6, I started at the Mojave Airport. I drove north on the Antelope Valley Freeway to Nine Mile Canyon, which I followed to Kennedy Meadows. Above Kennedy Meadows, just past Fish Ctreek Meadow at an elevation of 7,800 feet, the road was icy, so I returned the same way.

Convair 990 N810NA NASA Landing Systems Research Aircraft isx displayed adjacent to the main entrance to the Mojave Airport from Highway 58. It was used at the NASA Ames Research Center until 1983 when it was withdrawn from use. It was stored at Marana, Arizona until it was refurbished in 1989 for use at the Dryden FRC. After serving as the Landing Systems Research Aircraft in 1993 and 1994, it was retired to the Mojave Airport.

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Field of view: 81.8 degrees wide by 57.1 degrees high (top=39.0, bottom=-18.1)

Red Rock Canyon straddles Highway 14 north of Mojave.

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Fish Creek Meadow is at an elevation of 7,300 feet in the southern Sierra Nevada.

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Fish Creek Meadow

Kennedy Meadows is reached by way of nine Mile Canyon

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Kennedy Meadows

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