Google Earth...

[RAF_Techie101]

For those of you in the habit of plane-spotting on Google Earth, we at ISK seem to be quite popular at the moment... Besides the two in Basra, I've jsut found another in Gibralter... We do get around a bit at the moment...

[MightyGem]

...and you need to get out more!

[Big Bear]

Have a look at RAF Fairford at the pans on the west of the runway.....

[Big Bear]

Oops, must have had my monitor upside down, I meant the east of the runway.

[Pontius Navigator]

I thouht the real skill was finding aircraft airborne. Some in Iraq with shadows to prove them airborne.

I have just revisited my AOI and found more recent, and improved, imagery.

[Big Bear]

Finding them airborne is clever, however, I doubt what is sat a Fairford ever flies low enough to cast a shadow.

[sittingstress]

Spotted

I was plotting a route and was amazed at how clever the local authority was at cutting the grass into the shape of an airliner. Apologies if the layout of the co-ords are incorrect:

0°43'12.9"W
51°06'55.8"N

Regards

ss

PS Corrections regarding the co-ords will be welcomed.

[Rev I. Tin]

You can even track commercial flights here.
God bless

[Background Noise]

BB - there are 2 in the circuit at Beale

[[email protected]]

I have to wonder at how recent the images are, there are Concorde(s) sat at the gate at Heathrow. Have a look at the airfields in Serbia, there's one near Belgrade that still has bomb craters (N44° 55'50 E20° 15'46), although they do appear to have repaired the parallel runway, or is that new?

[SALAD DODGER]

Found a stealth fighter casting a shadow, and more! this is quite fun. Can you spot the nearby brit C130K, and Tornado's?
(115° 03'33.34"W 36° 13'38.03"N)

[PPRuNeUser0211]

grunt, if you check the copyright you can see how recent your image that you are currently looking at is. It displays in the bottom of the main window. Can't see your concordes tho, and the images of heathrow appear to be 2006

[RAF_Techie101]

They're in the bottom-right hand terminal, two of them side by side...

[Squirrel 41]

Yes, but....

If you're really looking to waste some time spotting on Google Earth, there's no place like DM: 32°10'20.53"N, 110°52'11.95"W.

Anyone fancy producing a full read-out?

S41

[TEEEJ]

Originally Posted by [email protected]

I have to wonder at how recent the images are, there are Concorde(s) sat at the gate at Heathrow. Have a look at the airfields in Serbia, there's one near Belgrade that still has bomb craters (N44° 55'50 E20° 15'46), although they do appear to have repaired the parallel runway, or is that new?

I expect Bushehr airbase, Iran to undergo some major reconstruction in a similar fashion! Courtesy of the US perhaps?

F-14 can be seen here:

N28° 56'38 E50° 51'30

F-4 coming into land here:

N28° 55'46 E50° 51'07

[L J R]

Have to disagree that the copyright date is the date of imagery. EG: Al Udeid is C2002.

[hobie]

if you check the copyright you can see how recent your image that you are currently looking at is. It displays in the bottom of the main window. Can't see your concordes tho, and the images of heathrow appear to be 2006

I thought I remembered a couple of Concorde's? ....

and they are still there, at the back(east) of terminal 4 .... with the image showing 2006?

how do I copy the coordinates of an image so I can post them in this post? ....

51°27'39.89"N 0°26'41.10"W for the concordes ....

[Safeware]

TEEJ,

If that F-14 has just landed, he's going to have to stop 'kin quick before running into the bondu.

sw

[TEEEJ]

Originally Posted by Safeware

TEEJ,
If that F-14 has just landed, he's going to have to stop 'kin quick before running into the bondu.
sw

Not the F-14. The F-14 is parked up. The F-4 is airborne. Either coming into land, low pass or touch and go.

[PPRuNeUser0211]

LJR... is the imagery you're talking about older than that? The newer stuff is copyright the year it was issued, some of the older stuff is copy 2002 (date the keyhole program was launched)