Boeing is using the airport to show off some of their heavy bombers. These are the principal girls of the USA, not the offspring of some other air force.

53 Miles West of Venus

I think you may have taken a wrong turn. This doesn't look like Venus...

(While researching metric conversions, I learned that this would be about 85 kilometers! — Vic Alcitez)

• 57 miles west of Metius
• 87 miles west of Cannizzaro
• 45 miles west of Pictet
• 60 miles west of Mädler
• 53 miles west of Picard

Big Bird

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MIHPET WVG SOFG LCNINGLY APGUT BOLHTIME CCEPANION

Mesopotamia

Rock Lobster

Everybody had... ...matching vowels!

	B	C	D	F	H	J	P	T	V	Y
Violet Parr	E	V	E	R	Y	O	N	E	W	A
Wooden rod	S	D	A	N	C	I	N	G	M	A
Allen Ginsberg	D	L	Y	O	N	T	H	E	W	H
The Thin Man	I	T	E	S	A	N	D	S	I	T
The X Factor	W	A	S	T	U	B	U	L	A	R

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Hints for "53 Miles West of Venus": These are locations in outer space. Not near Venus, though. On the moon! NASA's "moon trek" website is a cool resource.

Hints for "Big Bird": There are two different Caesar shift operations happening. One on the second letter and one on the third.

Hints for "Mesopotamia": These are the names of cuneiform signs. Look them up by those names and rotate them appropriately.

Hints for "Rock Lobster": The subjects on the left are all clues for word that rhyme... ...with the word "towel."

Hints for putting it all together: The minipuzzle names are all B-52s songs, and the answers are all girls' names, right? There is a B-52s song that features all these names.

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