I’m sure some of you have tried this before, but for those who hasn’t its quite interesting.
Google Earth can be downloaded for around 11Mb from here: http://earth.google.com/tour/thanks-win.html and allows you to zoom in on parts of the World – sometimes in close detail (mainly in the US).
From this, it is quite fun to find airports and do a bit of ‘satellite plane spotting’ to see what aircraft you can recognise from above.
Post any interesting finds (I’m thinking this doesn’t qualify as a photo thread :o)
For example, this VS 744 spotted at JFK:
By: Future Pilot - 8th May 2006 at 20:56
found me a BA 747 in san fransico
Whatever the hell kind of file that is I can’t open it 😀 .
By: lukeylad - 8th May 2006 at 20:23
found me a BA 747 in san fransico
By: tcx757 - 8th May 2006 at 19:27
An American B767 on the deck at Terminal 2 there, must of been around 2002 time?
For whatever reason Google changed the image of BHX they use sometime in the last 6 months. Think it was around the same time they added the city of Coventry to Google Earth, perhaps they did a general update of the area.
The strangest thing is, the image they used before was actually newer – it had a Britannia 757 in the light blue Thomson colours on it. Not sure why they changed, must have changed who they buy their imaging from…
By: gary o - 8th May 2006 at 17:03
A dhl 757 sticks out a mile at dublin,so do the aer lingus’
By: Future Pilot - 8th May 2006 at 16:32
Do not need to download Google Earth!
Oooo freaky, can zoom right into my back garden :D.
Here’s a BHX overview, is wierd to see how different it looked.
An American B767 on the deck at Terminal 2 there, must of been around 2002 time?
By: Ren Frew - 8th May 2006 at 13:36
At GLA a Continental DC-10 can be viewed and at PIK there’s several USAF C5 Galaxy’s parked up during the first Gulf War I understand ?
By: adamdowley - 8th May 2006 at 13:32
Have you found the Antonov 225 yet? 😉
i think so 😀
interestingly, not that hard to find. found it in about 2 minutes. considering it could have been anywhere on the globe, im quite pleased with myself 😀 😀
By: GKirk - 8th May 2006 at 13:30
Have you found the Antonov 225 yet? 😉
By: adamdowley - 8th May 2006 at 13:08
last time i checked, at LHR you can see the same aircraft (an Air France A319/20) at different stages on its final to 9L, and then its roll out on landing.
who has seen the air bourne Lancaster bomber on Google earth? ok, not commercial aviation, but still an aircraft
By: FlyMonarch - 8th May 2006 at 12:37
several here at BHX
By: Grey Area - 8th May 2006 at 12:27
There’s one landing at MAN too, if you follow the 24R centreline out far enough. 😉
By: A330-300 - 8th May 2006 at 12:18
You’ve only just discovered it?
Go to MAN and you’ll see a bmi and US Airways A330 immediately. Also, at LBA you can see a fair few bmi Embraers. I think it’s LHR where you can see a plane landing.
Also lots of GA at LBA.
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