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via: thatsallfowlks an aerostat illuminated just outside the town of Marfa, TX.  Marfa may be better known as an art community, but it’s proximity to the international border w/ Mexico also makes it a strategic location for the use of TARS and fighting the drug war that looms all too close. the excerpt below explains the basics of the system A growing network of inflated static aircraft (aerostats) that are raised aloft and cabled in place (tethered), for use as radar stations along the USA/Mexico border. Operated by the Air Force and the US Customs service, TARS’ primary mission is to detect small aircraft entering into the country from the south. The system currently employs around eight of the unmanned Aerostats. Marfa, TX. - 11/2012 View Larger

via: thatsallfowlks

an aerostat illuminated just outside the town of Marfa, TX.  Marfa may be better known as an art community, but it’s proximity to the international border w/ Mexico also makes it a strategic location for the use of TARS and fighting the drug war that looms all too close. the excerpt below explains the basics of the system

A growing network of inflated static aircraft (aerostats) that are raised aloft and cabled in place (tethered), for use as radar stations along the USA/Mexico border. Operated by the Air Force and the US Customs service, TARS’ primary mission is to detect small aircraft entering into the country from the south. The system currently employs around eight of the unmanned Aerostats.

Marfa, TX. - 11/2012

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…working meant thinking and drawing and looking at art and moving it around and doing a lot of reading,” said Flavin. “That’s what he liked to do and the ranches were the best place to do it. Don had to do a lot of traveling – which he hated and the ranches were a place to go when even Marfa got too complicated. They were very much where he wanted to be.

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—Flavin Judd, on his father’s ranches outside Marfa

Judd’s ranches: sanctuaries for the artist’s life and work

via: Big Bend Now

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