Planes, Trains & Automobiles Mystery Cache
Planes, Trains & Automobiles
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THE AUTOMOBILE PUZZLE IS NOT DIFFICULT. EVEN IF YOU HAVE TROUBLE WITH THE PUZZLE, USE THE SPOILER TO GET THE COORDINATES! GZ is a boulder the size of a kitchen table. The container is a 4 oz vitamin bottle at the front right base of the boulder. The container is covered by a softball-sized rock.
The coordinates above are a bit northeast of the actual cache location. The cache is at N 29 32.abc and W 098 18.0yz. To determine the missing portion of the coordinates, attempt the PLANES problem below. If too difficult, try the less difficult TRAINS problem or the least difficult AUTOMOBILES problem. All three problems give the same answer. By the way, when you log your visit, please indicate the most difficult problem you were able to solve!
PLANES fly over the cache site every day like the T-6 Texan II assigned to the 559th FTS “Billygoats” at Randolph AFB. Let’s assume a T-6 starts a final turn abeam the runway threshold heading 323 degrees at 1500 feet above ground level (AGL) and 120 KTAS with 31 degrees of bank and a 11.083 degree glide path. The time it takes the T-6 to turn 180 degrees back to the runway heading (143 degrees) is 3(yz) seconds and the altitude the T-6 rolls out on final is 2(abc) feet AGL. Hints: (visit link) Using the link formula, approximate any fraction of a standard rate turn by using that same fraction of the TAS.
TRAINS run on the tracks just south of the cache. Let’s assume a T-6 passed the cache eastbound above these tracks flying at 332 mph. At the same time 176 miles east, a west bound freight train was traveling at 20 mph. When the T-6 overflew the freight train, the T-6 traveled abc statue miles and the freight train traveled yz miles. Hints: (visit link)
AUTOMOBILES run amok on the road paralleling the train tracks as they turn to enter Randolph AFB. If a gate guard waved an average of 2.767 vehicles through the gate each minute, the guard waved abc vehicles through the gate in an hour. If 16 of those vehicles had out of state license plates, yz was the percentage of vehicles with out of state plates.
MORE ASSUMPTIONS: Randolph winds are 143 degrees at 10 knots (surface and pattern). Delta T +10, altimeter 29.86, runway 14R and squawk 0345. The T-6 burns 362 pph during the SFL. Train T1 cost $1.166 per mile to operate and a 6000 hp diesel set cost $1.100. Auto fuel is $2.02 per gallon (93 octane). The Edwards Aquifer level (Bexar) is 546’. Solar winds are 166 km/sec and density is 10.0 protons/cm3. DJIA: 8460, down 166 (2.86%)
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
nop vf bar fvk fvk naq lm vf bar mreb.
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