The Devil's Punchbowl
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The Devil's Punchbowl
Take time out to use Google maps and look at the Devil's Punchbowl at Hindhead - a quite remarkable plan view of a twin jet slap bang in the middle of the Bowl.
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http://community.novacaster.com/atta.../413/plane.jpg
Looks like a BA GE90 powered B777 over flying the area when the picure was taken.
Looks like a BA GE90 powered B777 over flying the area when the picure was taken.
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Interesting: if that is a 777 (and it looks like one), the 200 ft scale reference gives the 199' 11" span aeroplane a span nearer 350'. Bearing in mind it is a satellite derived picture, I wouldn't have thought the perspective to be that marked.
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Not all of Google Earth is , in fact, satellite imagery.
If you zoom out from the Boeing over the Punch bowl you can see the pattern of aerial imagery from which this area was mosaiced.
This would explain the wingspan anomaly since the airliner was flying at a fair proportion of the height of the photographic platform.
If you zoom out from the Boeing over the Punch bowl you can see the pattern of aerial imagery from which this area was mosaiced.
This would explain the wingspan anomaly since the airliner was flying at a fair proportion of the height of the photographic platform.
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Similar but it's a 146 near Sunderland (MS Virtual Earth).... Not on Google Earth.
http://www.content-delivery.co.uk/av...nCrescent.html
http://www.content-delivery.co.uk/av...nCrescent.html
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Zoom out a bit further and there's a Vulcan, Canberra, Vampire and a Phantom nose to the SSW!!
Similar but it's a 146 near Sunderland (MS Virtual Earth).... Not on Google Earth.
http://www.content-delivery.co.uk/av...nCrescent.html
Similar but it's a 146 near Sunderland (MS Virtual Earth).... Not on Google Earth.
http://www.content-delivery.co.uk/av...nCrescent.html
