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March 27th 07, 03:59 AM
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Slighty OT-A Cruise Missille In Flight
"RL Anderson" wrote in message
... It is a shot of a cruise missile in flight. Rick Actually, I don't believe it is. Have another look at the photo. It actually appears to be a normal passenger type aircraft with dark painted wings. You can actually see the wings in the photo if you look properly. Plus, there are 2 engine vapour trails. Does a cruise missile have 2 sources of propulsion or 1? I'm not sure. Extend those vapour trails back towards the craft, and they do indeed appear to come from precisely where normal aircraft engines would be mounted. Crash Lander 
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March 27th 07, 11:17 AM
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Slighty OT-A Cruise Missille In Flight
Crash Lander wrote:
"RL Anderson" wrote in message ... It is a shot of a cruise missile in flight. Rick Actually, I don't believe it is. Have another look at the photo. It actually appears to be a normal passenger type aircraft with dark painted wings. You can actually see the wings in the photo if you look properly. Plus, there are 2 engine vapour trails. Does a cruise missile have 2 sources of propulsion or 1? I'm not sure. Extend those vapour trails back towards the craft, and they do indeed appear to come from precisely where normal aircraft engines would be mounted. Crash Lander Also, there is a faint, light blue shadow(?) just above and slightly to the right, just over the green arrow, which has full length wings. You can see it even better in the next highest zoom setting. It is a really cool picture though! Brad
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March 27th 07, 04:01 PM
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Slighty OT-A Cruise Missille In Flight
On Mar 26, 10:59 pm, "Crash Lander" wrote:
"RL Anderson" wrote in message ... It is a shot of a cruise missile in flight. Rick Actually, I don't believe it is. Have another look at the photo. It actually appears to be a normal passenger type aircraft with dark painted wings. You can actually see the wings in the photo if you look properly. Plus, there are 2 engine vapour trails. [..] Plus using the scale at the lower left, you can see that it has a wingspan of about 100', making it 737 / etc sized. Still, it is fun finding ships and planes on satellite photos. Kev
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March 27th 07, 05:53 PM
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Slighty OT-A Cruise Missille In Flight
"Kev" wrote in message
oups.com... Still, it is fun finding ships and planes on satellite photos. www.virtualglobetrotting.com Have a ball. Marco
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