Google Earth/Maps getting cleverer
 

Over Adelaide

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/...25_634x418.jpg

Try switching to street-view, navigate to that particular street, and look up!

As it happens my mother in law lives one street over and yes if you look up you can see the aircraft.

Street view is taken at a different time or even a different year than the satellite view

Slight thread drift:
April 1st a couple of years ago, daughter in Melbourne rings mother in Sydney, "Quick Mum, they're updating Google Earth, if you go out into the yard and wave I'll be able to see you."

Why is that middle-aged woman in a dressing gown waving at the sky?

If only it worked with simultaneous images! It is possible that if you examined every frame of the street view for the approach path to ADL that you would see somone on arrival or departure. But I do not have the time or inclination to do that.

Where is the airport? Where is the shadow of the aircraft? I think this is some google employee sneaking in an easter egg.

It's a rainy Saturday afternoon, so I'll give you some clues grounded27.

1. In the picture, the sun is high in the sky at '10 o'Clock', look at the shadow of the vertical stabiliser on the port horizontal, also the trees in the street below.
2. Go to Google Earth and locate Adelaide. Once it has loaded on the city centre, zoom out steadily until you can see the airport.
3. Switch back to this thread and zoom the picture in the thread and read the name of the street.
4. Switch back to G Earth and search for that street in Adelaide.
5. You will then see if the machine is on it's way to ADL or away from it. You will also be able to compare the direction of shadow with the compass and consider whether the 738 shadow is 'missing' or simply out of shot.
6. Report back to this thread. :ok:

It would appear that a bunch of people with too much time on their hands have actually compiled a list of around 2,500 aircraft that are visible, airborne, on GE.

Needless to say, it includes the aforesaid VOZ B738 on approach to YPAD.

I think you've all lost the plot, (most of you anyway)

Looking UP from streetview is not going to show you the underside of that particular aircraft. :=

Surely you are all aware of this! Is it April fools day?

As for shadows, PAXboy is spot on but again, did that really need explaining?:sad:

marcoalzaI appreciate the compliment. It didn't but it was (still is) a quiet weekend and I didn't have anything better to do.

Which is why I just replied to this thread!! :p

I can't believe that anyone has taken the two posters comments immediately beneath the OP seriously!

Next someone will post a video of an aircraft taking off in the dark... :}

Well done Marcoalza, award yourself a virtual beer!

It only took a few days to be pointed out that you can't 'look up' in street-view, but well-done to all those that tried!

Damn....I knew it would backfire on me :ugh: