Aircraft Visible on Google Satellite
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There must be loads of places around the world where, just as the satellite was taking the photograph used on GoogleMap Satellite view, a plane was passing across the field of view. Has anybody come across any?
Let me start the ball rolling with this:
Unfortunately I don't know how to create a direct link to a GoogleMap location, but first call up GoogleMap, select the Satellite option, then type the following into the search bar:
Bells Bridge Ln, Preston, Lancashire
(It's actually the Fylde area of the Lancashire countryside, between Preston and Lancaster, by the A6. The waterway just west of the plane is the Lancaster Canal.)
ETA: Weird how the shadow of the plane has separated into the primary colours.
Let me start the ball rolling with this:
Unfortunately I don't know how to create a direct link to a GoogleMap location, but first call up GoogleMap, select the Satellite option, then type the following into the search bar:
Bells Bridge Ln, Preston, Lancashire
(It's actually the Fylde area of the Lancashire countryside, between Preston and Lancaster, by the A6. The waterway just west of the plane is the Lancaster Canal.)
ETA: Weird how the shadow of the plane has separated into the primary colours.
Edited by Tony2or4 on Wednesday 5th December 21:32
Edited by Tony2or4 on Thursday 6th December 22:47
Tony2or4 said:
There must be loads of places around the world where, just as the satellite was taking the photograph used on GoogleMap Satellite view, a plane was passing across the field of view. Has anybody come across any?
Let me start the ball rolling with this:
Unfortunately I don't know how to create a direct link to a GoogleMap location, but first call up GoogleMap, select the Satellite option, then type the following into the search bar:
Bells Bridge Ln, Preston, Lancashire
(It's actually the Fylde area of the Lancashire countryside, between Preston and Lancaster, by the A6. The waterway just west of the plane is the Lancaster Canal.)
ETA: Wierd how the shadow of the plane has separated into the primary colours.
See the little picture of a chain? Press that.Let me start the ball rolling with this:
Unfortunately I don't know how to create a direct link to a GoogleMap location, but first call up GoogleMap, select the Satellite option, then type the following into the search bar:
Bells Bridge Ln, Preston, Lancashire
(It's actually the Fylde area of the Lancashire countryside, between Preston and Lancaster, by the A6. The waterway just west of the plane is the Lancaster Canal.)
ETA: Wierd how the shadow of the plane has separated into the primary colours.
Edited by Tony2or4 on Wednesday 5th December 21:32
Here's another one.
http://goo.gl/maps/qBOq8
http://goo.gl/maps/3LrAa
Hope this works. This is just up from my work. A CHC helicopters AS332L2 I think.
Hope this works. This is just up from my work. A CHC helicopters AS332L2 I think.
davepoth said:
Intersting how it disappears as you zoom out and the photo is replaced by a different one.davepoth said:
See the little picture of a chain? Press that.
Gotcha.
My plane is at:
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Bells+Bridge+Ln,+...
http://goo.gl/maps/Hsqml
Formation Jumbo jets!
Can take no credit for this at all, saw it linked a few years ago.
Formation Jumbo jets!
Can take no credit for this at all, saw it linked a few years ago.
motomk said:
Interesting to compare the gap between consecutive shots of one particular vehicle on the road below with the corresponding gap between consecutive shots of the plane: check out the middle one of the three Jumbo piccies, and the truck with the pink cab-roof on the inside lane of the sliproad, directly north of the plane's forward fuselage; then the right hand one of the Jumbo, and the pink truck now a little bit further along the road. Some crude measuring makes the gap between Jumbo shots to be just over 4 times the gap twixt truck shots. So if the truck is averaging about 50mph over the period between shots then the plane would be averaging about 200mph then. 
Also interesting how (presumably) the wind is pushing the plane slightly north of the direction which its nose is pointing towards.
BA plane (I think) visible at Bagshot on Google Maps
Just North West of the Marker.
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=bagshot&hl=en&...
Just North West of the Marker.
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=bagshot&hl=en&...
BA jet heading South, directly over Russell Square, Central London.
https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=51.52207...
https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=51.52207...
djstevec said:
Clearly the aftermath of a crash, but which incident was this?djstevec said:
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