[W.T.F.] - Dever International Airport. *I worked on this place.
These are some of the photos of the murals at the DIA just outside Denver Colorado. I lived there for 15 years and actually helped work on some of the electrical systems of the underground on certain WEIRD runways... This place is spooky, freaky and I actually preferred working in the jails and prisons to the Airport work.
I have no knowledge of any D.U.M.B. but I do have some questions as to the reasoning for some of the building as it was done. The runway we did was the only one like it i the world and even the runway concrete people were confused. They said that if they added 1500 feet they could make it an alternate Shuttle landing site it was longer than anything they had seen they said. I asked what they thought it would be for and the only one who could think of anything was one old Marine Electrician who said, this runway is long enough that they could land two c-130s at a time from both directions, other than that it made no sense to him to not add for the Shuttle landing back-up.
Who knows? I aint an expert and I didn't see anything lower than level -3 after background checks and badges to work there.
Another option to wasting money and time and energy on a runway that didnt serve any known purpose? Government wastes time, money and energy every moment! Standard Procedure?
That airport must be one hell of a creepy place...
Are you certain that it was -3? In case you had to go down by elevator it might have been a fast one that brings you down to level -8. Or could you count the stairways or length of the vertical floor connecting wires?
I am sure, it was a stairwell. I worked on a runway they were adding on way out on the edges where they store the water under hidden canopies. (Have no idea why the water storage was there, big man-made concrete pools with camo coverings. Maybe some kind of brown water or waste water system?)
So anyways I was amazed that a runway needed so much underground work and that this one had a tunnel running beside it underground. We ran lights and wire for the whole thing from the tunnels to the runway lights. Entered the airport in a back road entrance with a lot of security.
I talked with the other contractors there and none of us could figure it out. The runway length really threw off those fellas and no one understood the tunnel use? You dont have a terminal there or a need to move baggage or people from the runway out in the boonies you take the plane to the terminal and do that stuff. This was set up, to some of us, as a transportation system. Either moving people in unknown or out unknown who could say? I cannot say for a fact there was not more underground floors or another entrance to that, I was only allowed the use of one entrance to the underground and one exit and never saw any off-branches or stairways other than little niches holding electrical buses, transformers or plumbing, heating etc. Could be there, I just never saw them. What I did see still makes no sense to me. I don't know airplanes but can you land from two directions as the one guy suggested or so you need the wind in a certain direction? If you can't why was the runway 1500 feet short of being an alternate Shuttle strip? That would have made the tunnels make sense at least. That runway was built for a specific reason, I wouldn't even guess as to how many levels were under it I can't even guess what would use it and I ran the lights down the damn thing!
Just something I think about every once in a while. Colorado is filled with crazy places...
Thank you for reading and responding.