September 8, 20241 yr Airline callsigns seem to fall into two categories. There are the ones that are simply the airline's name — "Lufthansa 732 Heavy" or "American 1094." And there are the more elegant callsigns, like "Speedbird" for British Airways flights, Aer Lingus' "Shamrock," or "Dynasty" for China Airlines. Then there's "Janet." It's a callsign shrouded in mystery, for an airline that really isn't an airline, with a fleet that bears no logos, based in plain sight of everyone flying into, driving by, or sitting in a hotel room overlooking Las Vegas' McCarran International Airport. Janet has an airline code and flight numbers that can be tracked just like regular commercial planes. It takes off and lands with the regular civilian traffic taking people into and out of Vegas. But you can't buy tickets on it, and you most certainly can't fly on it — unless you are a US government employee or contractor with a very, very high security clearance. Janet isn't even its real name. In fact, it does not officially have one. And what it does, as far as we know, is ferry people to some of the most secret government sites in the US. It does so with a fleet of a half-dozen non-descript Boeing 737-600s, plus a few Beechcraft 1900s and King Airs, which can be seen on the LAS ramp in front of a simple terminal building, in a highly secure compound. Secure, because the fleet's destination is often the fabled Area 51, on Groom Lake, a short 25-minute flight from LAS. Area 51, also known as Dreamland, has been home to "black" or highly secret aviation programs going back to the 1950s. It's the place where high-flying U-2s and Lockheed A-12s were secretly flight-tested. That's where the F-117 Nighthawk stealth attack aircraft was flown and hidden from view for years, before its debut in the 1991 Gulf War. Edited September 8, 20241 yr by admbar HP Omen Obelisk Gaming Computer, Intel Core i7-9700, Kingston HyperX Fury 16GB DDR4 System Memory 4.7GHz 8 cores, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super Graphics with 8GB GDDR6 memory, PSU 750 watts, 1TB hard drive, Samsung T7 2TB SSD, 512 GB SSD, WD 5TB HDD, Logitech HOTAS X52 Pro Joystick, AOC 27" monitor,
September 8, 20241 yr Great post and explanation of Janet (airline), Adam. Yes, this is one that has always baffled me...🙂... PMDG 736 in my Xbox lacks liveries (only a handful exists now), but Janet is there, I recall...Beautiful pictures here ...!
September 8, 20241 yr Author 9 minutes ago, P_7878 said: Great post and explanation of Janet (airline), Adam. Yes, this is one that has always baffled me...🙂... PMDG 736 in my Xbox lacks liveries (only a handful exists now), but Janet is there, I recall...Beautiful pictures here ...! Thank you P, for some reason my landing gear got stuck and had to head back. 😁 HP Omen Obelisk Gaming Computer, Intel Core i7-9700, Kingston HyperX Fury 16GB DDR4 System Memory 4.7GHz 8 cores, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super Graphics with 8GB GDDR6 memory, PSU 750 watts, 1TB hard drive, Samsung T7 2TB SSD, 512 GB SSD, WD 5TB HDD, Logitech HOTAS X52 Pro Joystick, AOC 27" monitor,
September 8, 20241 yr Great set - again, like your workflow style ! cheers 😉 08.2024 new PC is online : ASUS ROG STRIX X670E-F GAMING WIFI Mainboard, AMD Ryzen™ 9 7950X3D Prozessor, G.Skill DIMM 64 GB DDR5-6000 (2x 32 GB) Dual-Kit, MSI GeForce RTX 4090 VENTUS 3X E 24G OC Grafikkarte, 2x WD Black SN850X NVMe SSD 4 TB - Drive C+D, WD Gold Enterprise Class 12 TB for storage HDD, Thermaltake Toughpower GF3 1000W PC - Power supply, Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 EVO CPU Aircooler with 7 Heatpipes, Design Meshify 2 White TG Clear Tint Tower-Case, 3x 4K monitors 2x32 Samsung 1x27 LG 3840x2160, Windows11 Prof. 23H2 - now Windows11 Prof. 25H2 Flightsimulator Hardware: Honeycomb Throttle Bravo, Logitech Extreme 3D Pro, Logitech Flight Joke System, XBox Controller, some Thrustmaster stuff, Winwing CDU Panels.
September 8, 20241 yr Author Thank you PM and John. The lake in the background is Lake Mead home of the Hoover Dam and is fed by the Colorado River in the states of Arizona and Nevada 120 miles in length & 532 feet deep. HP Omen Obelisk Gaming Computer, Intel Core i7-9700, Kingston HyperX Fury 16GB DDR4 System Memory 4.7GHz 8 cores, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super Graphics with 8GB GDDR6 memory, PSU 750 watts, 1TB hard drive, Samsung T7 2TB SSD, 512 GB SSD, WD 5TB HDD, Logitech HOTAS X52 Pro Joystick, AOC 27" monitor,
September 8, 20241 yr Beautiful shots of an enigmatic subject! (fwiw, the NightHawks went public during the US invasion of Panama. The US press corps tried to paint them as failures, but we now know the truth 😉 ).
September 9, 20241 yr Great shots Adam and interesting post too! Thanks for sharing. Cheers, Calum Cheers, Calum CPU: RYZEN 7 5800X – GPU: GEFORCE RTX 3080TI (12GB) - RAM: 32GB CORSAIR VENGEANCE DDR4 3200MHz - STORAGE: 1x 1TB SSD + 1x 2TB SSD - MONITOR: 28” GIGABYTE M28U UHD 4K MONITOR 144Hz 1MS – MOTHERBOARD: ASUS AMD PRIME B550M-A MAT X - OS: WINDOWS 11 - COOLING: COOLER MASTER 120L WATERCOLOUR
September 9, 20241 yr Great shots of Janet Adam! 🙂 PC: Ryzen 7 3700x AM4, 16 GB RAM, RTX 3060 12GB, Storage SSD 3TB, HDD 8TB, USB 8TB, 2 Screens, Win10-64 SIMs: FSX SE, P3d 3.4/4.5/6.1, Xplane 10/11/12, MSFS 2020/24, Aerofly FS 4
September 11, 20241 yr Indeed, a great post and explanation. Makes me remember the lovely FSX mission - oh no, I do not remember nothing... Cheers, Gerold Spoiler Hardware: Intel i9-13900K @ 4.2 Ghz, BENQ EW3270U (3840*2160), 32 GB RAM DDR5-6000, Gigabyte Gaming OC Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB, Samsung 980 Pro M.2: 1 TB (Win 11-System), Samsung 870 QVO SSD: 2 TB (MSFS), 2 * Samsung 850 EVO SSD: 1 TB (P3D 4.5 HF3) & 500 GB (spare). Scenery / Add-Ons: Lots of commercial & freeware sceneries. Plus ActiveSky_MSFS - and for P3D: FS Global Mesh 2010, ActiveSky_P3Dv4, ASCA, EzDok v3, Pro-ATC/X and REX 4 Texture Direct.
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