i think its the same aircraft. the satellite (or whatever it was) that took the images takes one image, has moved a set, uniform distance, and taken another shot of the next piece of land in sequence. each image has captured the same aircraft – and each 747 is slightly larger than the previous becuase the aircraft is climbing.
they certainly can’t be different aircraft, taking off one after the other, because the distance between them is just ridiculously close, unless the delay between each photo is longer than just a few seconds – i.e. a few minutes and the photo taker has moved slightly less. separation between large, departing aircraft has got to be atleast a couple of miles and the separation between each view of the 747 definately doesnt look like a couple of miles.
a similar view was once possible on google earth at LHR – an Air France Airbus was visible a number of times at different moments in its landing roll along the runway – the aircraft/satelite that took the images has just moved/changed what it was looking at and taken an image at every x second interval.
thats how i see it anyway. 🙂
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