Santa Rosa Naval Auxiliary Landing Field

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NALF. Or what is left of it.

Today I visited a location I’ve always wanted to go to, that of which is the former Naval Auxiliary Landing Field located in the South West part of my city, Santa Rosa.

This field has a big history as it was relinquished by the US Navy between 1946–1948 and reactivated in 1951 for the Korean War. It was abandoned by the Navy between 1952 and 1954. It was reopened between 1966 and 1967 as a civilian airport named the Santa Rosa Air Center, and it permanently closed in 1991.

Here is a 1944 Aerial view provided by the US Navy national archives.

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Now, here’s what it looks like today. Completely different, with a whole ass neighborhood sitting on what was the former runway.

Enjoy these extremely high mid quality photos I took with a drone of NALF.

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Pretty cool to see, but also kinda sad at the same time.

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Man we Must fly there In IF

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BRO YOU MUST TELL US YOUR SECRET HOWD YOU DO THIS :exploding_head: :clap: :open_mouth:

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It’s a drone probably

Edit: yeah

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Yes but how’d he get that bubble effect?

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It’s a built in feature, basically the drone tilts the camera and moves so it captures all angles of its surroundings and stitches them together

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