Message posted by Peter Merlin on January 31, 2010 at 11:03:47 PST:

The JANET flights used to operate out of Site 6 at Palmdale. I haven't seen them on the ground recently but I would assume it is still the case.

The JANET 737s have always been used to transport cargo as well as passengers. In the 1980s, I used to work with a guy whose father was a cargo expediter for the JANET flights at Burbank.

The JANET fleet has been carrying passengers and cargo to Groom Lake since 1972, first with a couple of DC-6 transports and then with the 737s. That is nearly four decades. How many passengers and how many pounds of cargo might have been transported by the fleet in that time?

To put it in perspective, lets look at the statistics from Project OXCART. According to Kelly Johnson's history of the program, between January 1961 and June 1968, three Lockheed Super Constellation aircraft made 11,495 flights, carrying 492,205 passengers and 4,328,073 pounds of cargo.

In Reply to: Re: Janets at plant 42 posted by johnnylawless on January 29, 2010 at 14:28:28 PST:

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