The Register gets googly with airbases...

[Self Loading Freight]

What fun! Google Earth's satellite imagery provokes the Reg to go snooping on all manner of interesting tarmac at home and abroad.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/13/google_earth_threatens_democracy/

Much more of this sort of thing, and we'll be able to outsource most intelligence to a call centre in Chittagong...

R

[Talking Radalt]

Compare the Google Earth image (a blurred, grainy, mish-mash of pixels, no real detail, bit like the terrain in early Flight Sim), then "zoom in" as they suggest et voila, not only has the image got larger but the quality has suddenly leapt right up to that of commercial sat-imagery!

Me? Smell a rat? Nahhhhhhhhhhhh! :D

[egbt]

Me? Smell a rat? Nahhhhhhhhhhhh!

Quite right, just good web design to save bandwidth until it’s needed, that is when the subject is identified on the low resolution pic.:ok:

[althenick]

Take a look at Faslane - Jetties have been omitted - Coincidence?

(I cant seem to upload the image - confused)

[egbt]

I'm not sure what we are looking for but I have an industrial complex with Jetties partialy obscures with blue / white lights not sure how thats done! at

faslane bay

56d 03m 24s N
4d 48m 57s W


Checking Flyingdales, Staxton Wold, Crougton and a few others known to me they are all there in similar resolution to the surroundings. In the high resultion areas RAF Neatishead is there in all it's glory, R12 (sans T85 head :{ ), R3 "hump" and cottage etc. Coltishall is there with a/c visable. Very impresive.

[The Helpful Stacker]

The Vulcan on the north side of Norwich Airport sticks out too.

[OiOiOi Hoot Hoot]

Call me a geek but go to

N 32 09 07.11
W 110 49 58.47

Davis Mothan Bone yard

[The Helpful Stacker]

Thats a hell of a lot of aircraft.

[egbt]

Sure is.

Not many at Fairford, just a lone U2?

51 41 11N 1 46 20W

[AlanM]

Not many at Fairford, just a lone U2?

Oh well, Brize closing soon will change all that!

[XFTroop]

Have a look at N47-24-04.57 ;W1-28-16.97. Spooky??
Any ideas?

[Postman Plod]

double exposure of the same aircraft? Know nothing about what I'm about to talk about, so please shoot me down someone :} but are the pics stereoscopic with the focal point of both cameras being the ground, therefore an aircraft at 30000ft would appear as 2 seperate images? Just a theory! :\ Only 1 set of contrails...

Similar effect on approach to Edinburgh Airport - 55.56'01.32"N, 03.25'14.04"W

[egbt]

My guess...

On the Edinburgh pic there is only one shadow.

On both pics each image of the a/c is a different colour.

The gap between the images on low flying (slow) a/c is small, on the high a/c (con trail) which will be fast, is large

Possibly a composite IR and visible with a time lapse?

[Safeware]

Have a look at Norfolk Naval Yard, VA , 2 carriers, - 36 57 30.67, -76 19 46.18

Also Pearl Harbour (21 21 43.68, -157 57 12.50) and Philadelpia/Camden (39 56 21.73, -75 07 59.27) for Iowa class battleships. Wisconsin and New Jersey?

sw

(edited to add co-ords)

[Navaleye]

Very much the New Jersey and what a good day out it was as well. Here's a picture I took from a slightly lower altitude in April.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y184/Navaleye/NewJersey.jpg

[Duckbutt]

A little SW of Fairford at 51.36.34N 1.52.00W can be seen a (and I stand to be corrected on this) KC10 Extender in flight


In Philadelphia, just a little downriver from the 'Iowa' class battleship, the laid up liner SS United States can be seen at 39.55.06N 75.08.10W tied against a pier.

[Navaleye]

39 53 06.33, -75 10 46.13

USS America which has appears to have come back to port after being scuttled in the Atlantic in July. I had the chance to walk over her not long before the Sinkex. Another very interesting day.

Can you identify this aircraft?

40 45 53.43, -74 00 04.48

Is that a Scimitar?

[Safeware]

Navaleye, re 40 45 53.43, -74 00 04.48

Don't know, but wow, must have been some landing to get the SR-71 stopped on the deck :rolleyes: :)

Another good thing is to zoom in on something then tilt. Get down into the Mt St Helens crater - whacky, or the Grand Canyon - then you can 'fly' down the canyon :)
sw

[egbt]

Navealeye

Carrier is Intrepid (good old English name for a ship!)

list of aircraft

here (http://www.intrepidmuseum.org/intrepidmuseum/aircraft/)

and yes it includes a Scimitar (and a Harrier). Description on the site:


"Entering British service in 1958, the Scimitar holds the double distinction of being the Royal Navy’s first operational jet fighter and its first aircraft to carry nuclear weapons. Despite a lineage directly traceable to the famous Spitfire, however, the Scimitar was a mediocre design, suffering from subsonic performance, lack of radar, and poor handling characteristics which resulted in a high accident rate. It was retired in 1969.

The Intrepid Museum’s F-1 Scimitar is on long term loan from the National Museum of Naval Aviation (Royal Navy of Great Britain)."

What other "Royal Navy" is there? :confused:

[Navaleye]

the Scimitar was a mediocre design, suffering from subsonic performance, lack of radar

Glad to see that not much has changed with UK naval aviation :{

[newswatcher]

What other "Royal Navy" is there? Err......Dutch Royal Navy, Swedish Royal Navy, Norwegian Royal Navy...........most places where there is still a "Royal" family. := :=

[Data-Lynx]

Navaleye. The Yanks had a comment for the Scimitar: "only the Brits could design an aircraft that kept two Avons sub-sonic." Try comparing a view of the Scimitar cockpit and intakes head on with the same view of a Harrier GR1 - it's spooky.

We did however procure and deliver some cracking aluminium dustbins that could be strapped down in a hangar and large enough to contain the fuel leaks from the wings and fuselage.

[egbt]

newswatcher

Pedant Mode on/

Like "The RAF" but unlike the “British Army”, “The Royal Navy" omits the country from the its title. The UK, with typical superiority, has always taken the view that it's not necessary and lets other countries qualify themselves as in “The Royal Netherlands Navy, the US Navy etc.

Just like not having UK, or Great Britain on postage stamps

/Pedant mode off

:ok: :E

NavalEye

Glad to see that not much has changed with UK naval aviation

But you did have the Buccaneer for a while, even though you had to give them to the RAF when we went out of the carrier business.

[Fg Off Bloggs]

Go take a look at those military airfields in North Korea where there are no taxiways other than the one that routes straight line from the mountain (caves) to the take-off point!

Currently at work and HMQ won't let me download Google Earth, so cannot provide names or Lat/Longs.

[Rev I. Tin]

egbt,

lets other countries qualify themselves as in “The Royal Netherlands Navy, the US Navy etc

I think you will find that the Dutch call their Navy the Koninklijke Marine, which, forgive my basic cloggy, stands for Royal Navy.


:ok:

Bless you.

[SilsoeSid]

Loads of intersting locations - http://www.googleearthhacks.com/siteimages/mainlogo4.gif (http://www.googleearthhacks.com/forums/)

[plans123]

I quite like this web site. It comes in 3 parts and well worth a look.

Secret Bases - UK (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/alan-turnbull/secret.htm)

[SilsoeSid]

Mmm, a website dedicated to secret bases!!

Kind of shoots itself in the foot a bit I think.

I would hardly call the SIS building on the banks of the Thames a secret building, it even featured in "The World Is Not Enough".

The real secret bases are in fact.......secret!

:suspect:
SS

[plans123]

LOL - did you look at all three parts SS?

My favourite is the secret underground fuel pipelines. :rolleyes:

[Archimedes]

<Pedantry on>

...the Scimitar holds the double distinction of being the Royal Navy’s first operational jet fighter...

Supermarine Attacker? Hawker Sea Hawk? DH Sea Venom? The latter pair were a little busy in 1956 in the Suez area, which possibly counts as 'operational'...

<pedantry off>

[Onan the Clumsy]

How do you know the AEWACS in the article isn't inflatable like something from Operation Fortitude?

:8

[L Peacock]

No ice at the north pole. Global warming?

[Time Bandit]

Cruise on over to....

http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/postlist.php/Cat/0/Board/EarthMilitary

for more plane spotting fun.

[SilsoeSid]

Plans,

On the off chance you can't find them!

http://www.beautifulbritain.co.uk/images/OutAndAbout/sign_language/secret_bunker_s.jpg

http://www.philtaylorphoto.f9.co.uk/Hack-2-Small.jpg

http://www.crazy-jokes.com/pictures/secret-bunker.jpg

http://www.merretts.info/thumbnail/nantwich02/secretbunker.jpg


In the words of the General himself;

http://www.sitcom.co.uk/blackadder/graphics/char_melchett2.gif

Melchett:
So it's maximum security, is that clear?

Blackadder:
Quite clear, sir. Only myself & the rest of the English-speaking world is to know.



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SS

[Conan the Librarian]

Strange - I drove past this en route to something more erm, urgent -a few weeks back. Wanted to go back and have a look, but the website is as far as I have got so far.

Conan

http://www.hackgreen.co.uk/Hack_Green_History

[ORAC]

Subterranea Britannica (http://www.subbrit.org.uk/)

[Spurlash2]

The Google Earth competition to spot 'Black helicopters' run by The Register, has now posted the results.

And very good the photographs are, too.The Register Black helicopters (http://www.theregister.co.uk/)