The Register gets googly with airbases...
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The Register gets googly with airbases...
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...ens_democracy/
Much more of this sort of thing, and we'll be able to outsource most intelligence to a call centre in Chittagong...
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09...ens_democracy/
Much more of this sort of thing, and we'll be able to outsource most intelligence to a call centre in Chittagong...
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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!
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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.
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.
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The Vulcan on the north side of Norwich Airport sticks out too.
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Thats a hell of a lot of aircraft.
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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
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
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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?
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?
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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?
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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?
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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.
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.
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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?
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?
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What a landing!
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
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
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Don't know, but wow, must have been some landing to get the SR-71 stopped on the deck
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
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Carrier is Intrepid (good old English name for a ship!)
list of aircraft
here
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?
Carrier is Intrepid (good old English name for a ship!)
list of aircraft
here
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?
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the Scimitar was a mediocre design, suffering from subsonic performance, lack of radar