Google Earth Aeroplanes

[P4D]

Hope this works ok

 

Here is an twin with its shadow reflected on the water. Hope you can see it too. Google coordinates 25°19'41.23"S 152°34'39.41"E

 

 

[Owi]

Golly! Where was he going to or coming from at such a low altitude? I don't see any airstrips nearby.

 

 

[Tomo]

Flew past there the other day... but I didn't see it!

 

Could be en-route to Bundy

 

 

[Relfy]

Perhaps pacific haven at the back of Howard?

 

 

[P4D]

Could that be a survey plane looking for a new coal mine perhaps?

 

 

[68volksy]

Does it look like a DC3 to anyone else?

 

 

[Deskpilot]

That's not it's shadow. Look at the second bridge and note it's shadow direction. That puts the sun to the north east (roughly) The planes 'shadow' puts the sun south east. Also, why is 'it' multi-coloured instead of 'black'? Please don't say water refraction.

 

 

[kgwilson]

It looks fake to me. It has no profile & has a black border all round it not just on the shadow side like the houses etc & what on earth is that multicoloured thing in front of it. If the black border is it's shadow, it's flying lower than the bridge to the left and all the trees. Very odd.

 

 

[Neville75]

Flew past there the other day... but I didn't see it! Could be en-route to Bundy

With you Tomo, RFDS King air to bundy perhaps?

 

 

[horsefeathers]

Its just an artifact of the way the photos in Google Earth are put together. Something to do with the very slight timing difference between exposures. Fast moving objects can often display these false colour images.

 

 

[Kyle Communications]

If you want to see a good one go to 52:20:10:90 N and 0:11:43:30 W then go to view and turn on historical imagery and select 12/2003.....you should see a lancaster flying no doubt from a airshow

 

Mark

 

 

[Owi]

It looks fake to me. It has no profile & has a black border all round it not just on the shadow side like the houses etc & what on earth is that multicoloured thing in front of it. If the black border is it's shadow, it's flying lower than the bridge to the left and all the trees. Very odd.

Mate, have you seen the aircraft parked at any airport in GE ? If your observations are correct, they're all fake. Take a look at Heathrow - looks like a major shopping centre parking lot.

I find it a bit interesting trying to track the line along the runway looking for the furthest aircraft taking off away from / landing towards the runway.

 

Cheers,

 

 

[flindersflyer]

Does it look like a DC3 to anyone else?

Looks a bit like a KingAir 350. Could be RAAF doing NDB calibrations??

 

 

[kgwilson]

Take a look at Heathrow - looks like a major shopping centre parking lot.

Looks like Heathrow to me and all the aircraft have correct shadows and they are on the ground. The resolution of the aerial shot of Heathrow is far better and in the Burrum pic it is poor so there is no depth of field so it looks like it is at river height. I don't think it is fake it just looks fake. The A/C is just an outline unlike the Heathrow shot in which you can determine the A/C type, airline by colour scheme etc