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Old 19th Sep 2006, 14:45
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This seems to do the trick.

http://local.live.com/

go to where you live and then select Aerial
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Poliarny sumarine base

33°27'40.53"n 111°43'55.06"w
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Originally Posted by Skunkerama
This seems to do the trick.

http://local.live.com/

go to where you live and then select Aerial
I had a look and the image here seems about 7 years or so old.

The quality is very good but totally out of date.

Coningsby has F3s, the Hush House is still there as are the tennis courts where the new build has taken place.

Then my house, stuff we put in 7 years or more ago is not there, flowerbeds, ponds, terrace etc
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Old 29th Sep 2006, 09:20
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LocalLive has quite old images, RAF Locking is still there, whereas the site has been levelled.


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Old 29th Sep 2006, 10:41
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Local Live uses the Getmapping imagery which (round here) was shot in 99. It's also used on Multimap, but not to such a high res.
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Old 16th Jan 2007, 14:11
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Buqqer me! How long has Locking looked like that?!
Spent a lot of time there as a cadet and civilian instructor with the gliding school down the road at Weston airport...
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For more nostalgia I keep a list of UK Disused Airfields links at...

http://www.content-delivery.co.uk/aviation/airfields/

For the Scottish Ones you may need to zoom out abit..

(MS Virtual Earth)
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Old 16th Jan 2007, 15:37
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Originally Posted by Poliarny
33°27'40.53"n 111°43'55.06"w
Poliyarny Submarine Base?

Moved to Arizona has it?
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Quite surprised to see this in so much detail.

17 17 52 S 72 23 58 N

And MPA for that fact
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17 17 52 S 72 23 58 N
Awful lot of up/down info there, DEL - any chance of some Longitude to go with it?
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Dooh

17 17 52 S 72 23 58 E

Bad day at work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Old 16th Jan 2007, 18:28
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Originally Posted by DEL Mode
17 17 52 S 72 23 58 E

Ehh? Pacific ocean?
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Finding a lot of water here DEL
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07 17 52 S

72 23 58 E

Diego Garcia (-7.317, 72.417) is an atoll located in the heart of the Indian Ocean, some 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometres) south of India's southern coast.

Mrs. DEL Mode is packing the house up due to posting - that's my excuse.
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If you missed it there was a nice article about Google Earth in todays Telegraph. Possibly old news for us but may open some ppls eyes.
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621andy (and other interested parties),

With ref to RAF Locking here are some before, during and after photos if you are interested.
http://www.104thlocking.org.uk/JustBeforeClosure.htm

http://www.104thlocking.org.uk/Demolition.htm

http://www.104thlocking.org.uk/Locking2006.htm


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Is the number of errors typing Lat/Lon in this thread representative of the military aviation community? A bit of a worrying trend!



TOG
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Old 17th Jan 2007, 06:03
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Isn't it strange that the imagery with the highest definition occurs around military installations?

Well, maybe not!



I work for an airline in Hong Kong. A Chinese airspace chappie was in one of our manager's offices one day explaining why we had to stick to the published routes in an out of one of our regular destinations. He explained that there a sensitive area nearby.

"What, this one?" replied out manager bringing up a google earth image of an airfield with lots of fighters. Chinese chappie nearly had a fit!
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Old 17th Jan 2007, 08:41
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Here's a couple of interesting ones:

20 56 11.18 N
95 54 55.91 E
Couple of Mig 29s on the pan, plus what look like Mig 21s and old Sukhoi SU7s(???)
This is the MAF training base for FJs @ Meikthila. Interestingly, most of the country is badly served by Google E, but the 2 sites here are very clear to see...

The other one is:

20 53 29.07 N
95 54 09.32 E

Meikthila helicopter base- 3 Mi8s to be seen. Also a heli training base with Hueys, Jet rangers etc. There's also a Spitfire(late model) and a dak/DC3 there, but must be hidden under the trees...don't ask how I know
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Old 17th Jan 2007, 08:48
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Just found them!

20 53 29.07 N
95 54 09.32 E

Spit, Piston Provost, and Dak.
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