Concorde
Please note that some or all of the objects mentioned in this post are no longer visable on Google Earth or Google Maps.
This one shows you how long ago some of this images were taken. Here’s Concorde at JFK, presumably before April 2003. I’ve also beeen wondering if the people at Keyhole (Whom Google bought the technology from) had to Photoshop out any planes photographed in flight, as I can’t find any at all…
Updated: Turns out that there are loads of planes in flight!
Some planes (possibly only 1 captured multiple times) in mid flight (Landing at Logan in Boston)
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There are several planes visible in Keyhole. The program also seems to have more recent photos. It’s well worth downloading the free trial version.
cool - i was gonna say the logan plane too.
Wow, that is *so* cool, thanks Matt
If it is indeed the same plane, then I think maybe you can see how the height of the plane varies during landing as the pilot adjusts his trajectory; judging by the distance of the shadow, the ‘third’ plane seems to be lower than the second.
Here is another plane taking off from Vancouver, BC airport:
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There’s a plane about to touch down at Ottawa MacDonald-Cartier International Aeroport on runway 070:
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There’s another one on runway 060L at Toronto Pearson International:
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Back in May 2002, I took a photo of it sitting in that very spot:
http://www.smackfu.com/photos/england/london/IMG_0020.jpg.html
In the Keyhole interface there is a plane flying westbound near Foster Beach, Chicago.
This looks to be a plane coming in to LAX:
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This plane appears to be flying… but is a display at a new museum in LA.
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Here’s one coming in to land (runway 31R) at DFW:
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There’s also a series (of one plane, I presume) heading north from Runway 35L.
Here’s a U2 taking off from Beale Air Force Base in California:
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Here’s what looks to be a DC9 that has just departed from Toronto’s Pearson Intl., (runway 06R).
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Look in Timonium, MD near the quarry… I rmember seeing one on my free trial there… if anyone has Keyhole I can email them the placemark
Here is a plane on approach to O’Hare…
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There may be no planes taken off from JFK… but there is something going on with a plane at the end of one of the runways… check it out… there are bunch of cars/trucks around it/comming to it.
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Those vehicles look like emergency vehicles- why else would they come out to the runway like that. Plus, if everything was as planned he wouldn’t have missed the taxiways-these are long runways!
go to Austin, TX’s Bergstrom intl. Follow the river north and east.
I believe most of the planes seen approaching runways for landing are not the same plane, they are just lined up by air traffic control, and are all on the same approach. Look at the DFW post from Robert above: Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth the plane appears to be a mid sized prop, if you scroll to the south east in line with the run way, you come to what is clearly a different plane on approach
and another if you keep scrolling SE
Here is another Concorde, this one in Toulouse, France: Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
Plane coming into land at Dublin Internation Airport (DUB), Dublin, Ireland -
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Plane has just landed in Cork International Airport (ORK), Cork, Ireland -
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