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XFTroop 8th June 2009 17:22

Question for Google E aficionados
 
Whilst browsing around "the secret airbase in Wiltshire", about 2 nms NNW (5132.14N 0200.32W to be exact) I came across this curious blanked out strip.
Any ideas?

XFT

higthepig 8th June 2009 18:13

XFT
It is where Flt Lt Mac dropped his teddy and gripe water.

XV277 8th June 2009 18:31

Damn, he's found the secret runway.....

Dunno what it is on GE, but on the quaintly named 'bing' it's not there

Link

nacluv 8th June 2009 19:19

They noticed that they had photographed a flight of several MRA4's.

BAe Woodford asked them to blank them out in case anyone spotted them and asked some awkward questions as to why they were pretending they were not ready.

Mungo5 8th June 2009 19:28


...on the quaintly named 'bing'...
I'm told stands for "But It's Not Google." In an attempt to become the new google, MS haven't realised that google is infact the new google.

:rolleyes::cool:

XFTroop 8th June 2009 19:30

HTP
I thought so, and its way past his bedtime.

XV
The GE imagery on the Status bar says 2006 which is about right, the Bing one is a bit older.

XFT

spheroid 8th June 2009 19:31

BING = Bing Is Not Google. I have to say that BING is a heap load better than google... much quicker

Jimmy Macintosh 8th June 2009 20:07

Someone had just gone crazy with weed killer.

Just a really big "P!SS OFF BIGGLES" burned into the fields.

jimjim1 12th June 2009 13:46

Google Earth Signwriting
 
54°28'4.97"N 64°47'49.73"E

Somewhere on t'interwebby it says it says "Lenin's 100 years"

windriver 12th June 2009 16:45

Re BING


I'm told stands for "But It's Not Google." In an attempt to become the new google, MS haven't realised that
The official line is that "BING!" is the sound of delight one makes when discovering something new or useful. - (Source: Recent MicroMart article)

Ali Barber 12th June 2009 21:11

Just copied that lat & long into google earth and got somewhere in central london?

Airborne Aircrew 12th June 2009 23:14


Just copied that lat & long into google earth and got somewhere in central london?
You were a Nav then... :}


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