England

Flying Road

Tired of planes in flight? School buses in flight not unusual enough for you? Well, soaring over cars and houses here in Elstree, London, there's a section of ghostly flying road! Bet you haven't seen one of them before! Thanks…

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Friday, 16th June 2006

Flying doughnut

Somewhere off the east coast of England the alien army are preparing their assault on mankind, using giant doughnut warships. Thanks: Steve Wrona

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Friday, 16th June 2006

AWACS

Today we're looking at E-3 Sentry AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control System) planes - they're really just Boeing 707s with a 9.1m diameter rotating radar strapped onto the back, which provides airborne surveillance and battle management. Starting in Britain there's…

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Thursday, 8th June 2006

Santa Pod Raceway

Santa Pod is Europe's first permanent drag racing venue, and this aerial photo was taken on a race day. This site us a disused WW2 American Air base once called RAF Podington and it was here that Sammy Miller set…

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Monday, 5th June 2006

Fat Planes

Invasion of the fat planes! There's a really fat green plane at Heathrow (which looks a little like Thunderbird 2)... And at Hong Kong International, there's some sort of fat pink alien spacecraft! (Or these might be fire training aircraft…

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Friday, 2nd June 2006

Big Brother 7 UK

Update: For anyone who watched the first episode, can I just say... Oh. My. God. I really do despair. Oh blimey. Is it that time of year again already? This year, they've gone and hidden 100 golden tickets in special…

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Thursday, 18th May 2006

Welcome to Google Sightseeing!

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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