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Old 10 January 2006, 13:28   #1
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Amazing Google Earth plane
As spotted by my brother

52 20 10.87n 0 11 43.34w

Just type this into the search panel.
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At first I was thinking what are you on about? But after zooming in, I see what you were talking about!

Impressed I am!
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Old 10 January 2006, 15:29   #3
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As spotted by my brother

52 20 10.87n 0 11 43.34w

Just type this into the search panel.
Your Brother ?!?

The Register account

Original sighting report
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Old 10 January 2006, 15:43   #4
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Yup - he was checking out Huntingdon airfield at the time. Wonder if that's where the Lanc is heading???

He didn't think of posting it on the net but looks like that bloke was first anyway.

Heathrow looks amazing - especially the strange green aircraft that nobody seem to know what it is - a safety trainer is the most likely candidate.

Just stuck Google Earth on an old codger's computer - he was most impressed when I zoomed in on his house and he can see his car outside with him standing next to it!!!
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And for our Scottish members has anyopne noticed all the extinct volcanoes around the West Coast???

Need to be viewed from quite a hight and detail not very good

Try an altitude of 25 miles

56 44 17.8n 6 07.5w

Wish I had never heard of Google Earth - it's TOO addictive!!!
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The amazing "Googleprawn" ...... Codder's brother with a keen eye....Good Lord! There are two of them!.. the world will surely have a surfeit of knowledge soon.......
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The amazing "Googleprawn" ...... Codder's brother with a keen eye....Good Lord! There are two of them!.. the world will surely have a surfeit of knowledge soon.......
My brother prob has more knowledge than most people would EVER have - as you don't know him it's best to keep quiet!!!

My fault - when he phoned me I jumped to the conclusion he had found it - didn't realise he had seen it on a forum but then again he didn't realise some people would be so petty he would have to explain his sources!!!

I assumed he had found it because he had been researching the nearby airfield a few weeks ago!!!
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San Diego Plane
32 44 49.22n 117 15 05.39w (zoom in)

Plane overhead in Ocean Beach. Departed San Diego Airport just before the photo was snapped.
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My brother prob has more knowledge than most people would EVER have - as you don't know him it's best to keep quiet!!!
Has he got a really big computer, or has he found something that's better than google?

I don't know, caught out yet again!
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My brother prob has more knowledge than most people would EVER have - as you don't know him it's best to keep quiet!!!
Who gives a flying feck' how "clever" your brother is...? it's your constant bullshit that's giving me a headache..
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What an amazing coincidence
that this was posted in the YBW forum yesterday morning

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Open google earth and type in the Latitude and longitude

52 20 10.87N 0 11 43.34W

To do this easily, right click and copy the above and paste it into the 'Fly to' search box.

Once the image has settled, zoom in and see an amazing sight.
exactly the same to two decimal places
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Who gives a flying feck' how "clever" your brother is...? it's your constant bullshit that's giving me a headache..
When I am wrong I will admit it - I jumped to a conclusion and was wrong - at least I DO admit my mistakes!!!
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