Question for Google E aficionados

[XFTroop]

Whilst browsing around "the secret airbase in Wiltshire", about 2 nms NNW (5132.14N 0200.32W to be exact) I came across this curious blanked out strip.
Any ideas?

XFT

[higthepig]

XFT
It is where Flt Lt Mac dropped his teddy and gripe water.

[XV277]

Damn, he's found the secret runway.....

Dunno what it is on GE, but on the quaintly named 'bing' it's not there

Link (http://www.bing.com/maps/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTCP&cp=51.536032~-2.006721&style=h&lvl=16&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&encType=1)

[nacluv]

They noticed that they had photographed a flight of several MRA4's.

BAe Woodford asked them to blank them out in case anyone spotted them and asked some awkward questions as to why they were pretending they were not ready.

[Mungo5]

...on the quaintly named 'bing'...

I'm told stands for "But It's Not Google." In an attempt to become the new google, MS haven't realised that google is infact the new google.

:rolleyes::cool:

[XFTroop]

HTP
I thought so, and its way past his bedtime.

XV
The GE imagery on the Status bar says 2006 which is about right, the Bing one is a bit older.

XFT

[spheroid]

BING = Bing Is Not Google. I have to say that BING is a heap load better than google... much quicker

[Jimmy Macintosh]

Someone had just gone crazy with weed killer.

Just a really big "P!SS OFF BIGGLES" burned into the fields.

[jimjim1]

54°28'4.97"N 64°47'49.73"E

Somewhere on t'interwebby it says it says "Lenin's 100 years"

[windriver]

Re BING


I'm told stands for "But It's Not Google." In an attempt to become the new google, MS haven't realised that


The official line is that "BING!" is the sound of delight one makes when discovering something new or useful. - (Source: Recent MicroMart article)

[Ali Barber]

Just copied that lat & long into google earth and got somewhere in central london?

[Airborne Aircrew]

Just copied that lat & long into google earth and got somewhere in central london?

You were a Nav then... :}