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In article , miket6065
writes Does anyone know the address or coordinates of the airfield that Steve Fossett took off from? http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&ll=3...11,-119.000258 -- Dominic Sexton |
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In sci.geo.satellite-nav Dominic Sexton wrote:
Does anyone know the address or coordinates of the airfield that Steve Fossett took off from? http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&ll=3...11,-119.000258 Turning the view of GeoEye-Ikonos_1m on and off shows a change in registration of the photo imagery around the airstrip. The point found by a Google Earth Search is east of the runway by a little bit, I thought due to rounding of the coordinate. Turning off the 1m view puts the point on the runway. The point noted above is at the north end of the runway, at a connection with an unused dirt runway. Toggling the 1m view on puts that same point on East Walker Road on the photo. You can see different planes on the tarmac. I would expect that someone is performing photo comparisons between the two views to look for new items. Seeing the planes on the ground gives you a "best view" of what you might be looking for. If there is an aircraft at an angle, or damaged, it would be smaller. My view looks like I would need to be at an eye altitude of 2000 feet or less to see anything. Does anyone know where the other airplanes, the "previously unknown" aircraft were located? Looking at that might give a clue what needs to be discovered. -- Clarence A Dold - Hidden Valley Lake, CA, USA GPS: 38.8,-122.5 |
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On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:40:58 +0000, dold wrote:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&ll=3...11,-119.000258 Even simpler, I found this shortest URL on another group. http://maps.google.com/?q=38.618111,-119.000258 I agree, it would be wonderful to have the coordinates of the 8 previously uunknown crash sites. Does anyone have coordinates for crash sites that haven't been cleaned up? It would be a great reference for out search effort! |
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