Thats a great pic, please tell me more about ‘micro$oft thingie’ , how much of the planet does it cover ? where can you get it & does it cost $$$$$$

I found it here:
http://local.live.com
Theres a road option, aerial & birdseye. That pic came from the birdseye option. Found 7 SR71’s at the local airfield using it, including the white one 🙂

Bollo! was hoping it was coming closer to home so I could play with it again 🙁

Watched a prog about the Bismark the other night, they showed where it was built & laying there in the weeds was a lump of belt armour about 1ft thick. I guess it’s still there as no one can lift it…

Couple of years back we had a B17 visit, can’t remember which one, but it has a red rudder.
About 10 days later I get a call from a friend of mine who lives in the Bay Area (about 400 miles away) & he mentions that a B17 just flew over his house.

Me: “With a red rudder?”
Him: “How the hell can you see it from Los Angeles????”

Glastonbury this year.

Same place about 20+ years ago, a Police helicopter was doing low passes at about 500ft looking for illegal activity. At the time myself & a friend worked occasionally with fireworks & had a crate of flak simulators. They exploded somewhat higher than the helicopter (we didn’t aim directly at it obviously) & for some reason Sqdr Leader Dibble departed a bit sharpish after a swift volley of 9 simulators were launched.

Not sure what year exactly, but it was the same year the *long drop* by the farm house mysteriously exploded into flames…. 😉

On another occasion (different year) I went for one of the helo flights around the site. Made the stupid mistake of saying “gonna show us what this thing’l do then?” just before take off :rolleyes: A somewhat spirited flight followed & when we had landed & I had recovered the power of speech I asekd the pilot how many hours he had..
His reply:
“Not many, during the week I fly Vulcans”

Moral of this story: NEVER!!! get into a helicopter flown by a bomber pilot…