Google Earth - Aircraft Spotting
 

This one has been reported all over the place, I didn't find it, but you can see the BBMF Lancaster in Google Earth at 52 20 10.87N 0 11 43.34W. I am finding it curiously addictive to look at fuzzy plan views of varigated aircraft, amongst other things. The ship at 51 30 24N 0 04 53W I suspect is HMS Belfast and looks luverly.

Anybody got some more?

That's correct. I can't identify the cruise ship tied up next to her at the moment but it's bound to be one of the usual suspects - there aren't that many that come up to the Pool.Have you tried this site?

Spodman, this one is "somewhere in England":
51deg41min11.66secN 1deg46min21.25secW

The plane is easy, but what is the car?!

Heathrow 09L has Four Air France A320's Landing. :eek:

(yes, I know it is the same one at different stages of Landing)

Put 51 20 04 91 N 0 18 56 61 W into Google Earth.
What is the aeroplane? Only one on the UK register!


Spodman.

For a serious attack of aircraft recognition try " davis monthan afb az "

KK, it's Bart Woodall's Helio Courier G-BAGT - yes, he should have had G-BART! And whatever happened to G-BGIX? It's still got a current C of A...

.... And while you're in Tucson stop off at the Pima Air Museum at 32 08 21 n 110 52 08 w which appears to have one of everything. American that is.

Hello Seleco, looks like a U-2 / TR-1, but I must be blind I can't see the car.

Thanks Globaliser and everybody.

Spodman, there was a thread running a while back (http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=204921) about the need for a fast car accompanying U2/TR1s on landing to help with height assessment and steady the unsupported wings (I hope I am remembering this right!). Various posters identified the favoured car for this role as a Corvette, which may be what one of the blobs near the aircraft is. It's a shame GoogleEarth's resolution is so variable!

With a little help from friends, it's the Hebridean Spirit.

They have at least a Viscount and a Caravelle there......

I don't have the lat-long to hand, but look at a village called "Bourne End" near Marlow in Bucks. An Air Canada 747, presumably inbound to LHR, blots out the eastern half of the village.

G

If you haven't found the Air Canada 747 try copying this into the GE search bar.
51.5772055555556,-0.697269444444444
Lots of interesting things to look at near Davis Monthan. What are these ?
32.1474305555556,-110.855397222222

Seloco,

car was a Ford Mustang, V8 4.5 litre engine. Usually carried only driver, sometimes a passenger, thought the latter configuration "degraded performance".

A unique type at 31.473427n, 106.232108w - who's gonna be the quickest to ID it...

Treadi,

That took me to the desert south east of El Paso, and I couldn't see anything. Is that the right place ?

Spec.

Specnut
The aircraft you asked about are Grumman Tracers, with their wings folded
http://1000aircraftphotos.com/Contri...bout/1854L.jpg

El Paso is corrrect, and the airport naturally - maybe I wrote the lat down wrong - can't see Googleearth at work, so here's googlemap

Treaders,

Is it the one & only McDonnell MD-220?

airliners.net link here


Edited to add (after T's post): Wahoo!

It is indeed, a nice looking aeroplane!

I've spent an infordinate am,ount of time looking at various airfields - if you like floatplanes, take a look at the NE side of Anchorage airport!

Found a couple of Starships at US airfields - can't remember where, but I think that's testimony to the age of the satellite photos rather than Beech overlooking a couple in their efforts to bulldoze the lot. (There is a survivor at Chino though, but not, I think, visible on Google.)

Point of order! The aircraft at Bourne End is on a northerly heading, so is outbound from LHR on a WOBUN SID. Also, five canoe fairings on each trailing edge means it's an ... A340.

I'll get my anorak. :}