Aircraft

Berlin Luftbrücke

In 1948 the Soviet Union occupied East Berlin as well as the East German territory surrounding the city, so the Allied controlled West Berlin was completely landlocked by Soviet control. When the Soviets blocked all rail, road and waterway traffic…

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Thursday, 5th January 2006

Weekend in Dublin

My slackness in posting any sights so far this week is entirely the fault of the Edinburgh design agency where I work, who insisted on taking us all to Dublin this past weekend for our Christmas party! Anyway, the Guinness…

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Thursday, 22nd December 2005

Keeping up with the Joneses Pt 2

You might remember the communities where to be part of the "in" crowd is to have your own tennis court. That's all very well but in Cielo Dorado Estates you need your own plane! There's a private runway running right…

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Friday, 2nd December 2005

Hot Air Balloon, Berlin

Although this has appeared in our comments, we've never actually posted it, so here is the fabulously brightly-coloured hot-air balloon, tethered above Potsdamer Platz in Berlin. Pretty huh? I'm sure I read somewhere that you can go up in it…

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Thursday, 1st December 2005

North Korean Airfields

There's a couple of airfields in North Korea that airplane buffs and wannabe spies will enjoy browsing. Taechon airfield has numerous biplanes sitting in little bunkers and a couple more randomly parked on the runway. One submitter reckoned they could…

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Saturday, 19th November 2005

Manchester Airport & Manchester Football

Manchester Airport is the third busiest airport in the UK so there's planes to see all over the place as well as a passenger jet coming in to land. Also dotted around Manchester Airport there's giant footballs painted on the…

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Tuesday, 15th November 2005

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Google Sightseeing takes you on a tour of the world as seen from satellite or street views using Google Maps. Our team of authors present weird and wonderful sights as suggested by readers.

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