MYSTERY: Maybe the toughest yet

Balance is good in life.  Last week’s mystery turned out to be easy for many.  So here’s a photo that may be the toughest photo puzzle ever.  Your only hint is that it was taken in Charleston.  Send your guess to editor@charlestoncurrents.com. And don’t forget to include your name and the town in which you live.

Our previous Mystery Photo

Our June 17 “whereisit” (as opposed to a whodunit) garnered more correct identifications than we expected, probably due to the obvious clue of the tail of a jet in a small part of the photo.  Yes, the photo was a hanger at the Boeing plant adjacent to Charleston International Airport.

The number of people (18) who correctly identified the hanger was two short of breaking the record for most correct identifications.  Big booming claps to these sleuths: Jay Altman of Columbia; Jim McMahan, Stewart Weinberg, Legare Clement, Paul Hopersberger, Neal Kinard and Jack Bass, all  of Charleston; Chris Brooks of Mount Pleasant; George Graf of Palmyra, Va.; Chuck Boyd of Hanahan; Wendy Kulick of Kiawah Island; Ralph Garris of Great Falls; Marnie Huger of Richmond, Va.; Rachel Knight of North Charleston; Marian Greely and Kristin Wheeler, both of West Ashley; John Abbattista of Seabrook Island; and Bill Segars of Hartsville.

Boyd and others said the hanger was where Boeing paints planes.   Boyd noted, “Watched them build the airplane painting structure to avoid the expense of sending completed planes to Texas to add tail logos and carrier colors for individual buyers. Apparently, it can handle two planes at once.”

Graf provided three fun facts about Boeing, according to its website:

• Boeing South Carolina was the company’s first 100 percent renewable energy site. Up to 20 percent of that energy is supplied by more than 18,00 thin-film solar panels (approximately 10 acres) installed on the roof of the 787 Final Assembly building. The solar panels generate up to 2.6 megawatts of energy to power the entire plant as well as the giant autoclaves used to produce the 787 fuselage.
• Boeing South Carolina became the fourth Boeing site to achieve Zero Waste to Landfill status in 2011. No waste generated at the site goes to landfill.
• Since Sept. 2012, Boeing South Carolina has reached more than 100,000 middle and high school students through its DreamLearners Tour Program and Speakers Bureau.

Send us a mystery:  If you have a photo that you believe will stump readers, send it along (but make sure to tell us what it is because it may stump us too!)   Send it along to  editor@charlestoncurrents.com.