Flying Car

"Jim Carriere" wrote in message
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Rich S. wrote:
"Richard Riley" wrote in message
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Go to Google Earth and enter 52 20 10.87N 0 11 43.34W

Don't leave us hangin' here, Riley. What's a Lancaster doing in a housing
development???

Left base for 30? (Zoom out a bit)

I doubt it. That RAF base's singe runway has an X in the middle and cars
parked in the overrun area.

THANKS, just laost about 4 hours sleep because of you!

"Richard Riley" wrote in message
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Tater Schuld wrote:
" jls" wrote in message
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/23/flying_car/

amazing what can be thought up when someon mounts a car on a pole for
advertising purposes

This one's kind of cute.

Go to Google Earth and enter 52 20 10.87N 0 11 43.34W

"Bryan Martin" wrote in message
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I can't find its shadow. That bomber must be flying pretty high.


Somebody way better at math than I may be able to figure this out.

The wingspan of the Lancaster is 102 Ft.

The Google measurement tool shows 149 feet in the picture.

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T o d d P a t t i s t wrote:

"Gig 601XL Builder" wrDOTgiaconaATcox.net wrote:

Somebody way better at math than I may be able to figure this out.

The wingspan of the Lancaster is 102 Ft.

The Google measurement tool shows 149 feet in the picture.

It depends on the altitude of the camera that took the shot.
Assuming a typical 26,000' camera run (amazing what Google
will turn up) that would put the Lancaster at 8200'. A
camera at 10,000' puts it at about 3,100'.

I thought Google's images were from satellites...

--
Alan Baker
Vancouver, British Columbia
"If you raise the ceiling 4 feet, move the fireplace from that wall
to that wall, you'll still only get the full stereophonic effect
if you sit in the bottom of that cupboard."

Alan Baker wrote:
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T o d d P a t t i s t wrote:


"Gig 601XL Builder" wrDOTgiaconaATcox.net wrote:


Somebody way better at math than I may be able to figure this out.

The wingspan of the Lancaster is 102 Ft.

The Google measurement tool shows 149 feet in the picture.

It depends on the altitude of the camera that took the shot.
Assuming a typical 26,000' camera run (amazing what Google
will turn up) that would put the Lancaster at 8200'. A
camera at 10,000' puts it at about 3,100'.


I thought Google's images were from satellites...


That's what they want you to think. They actually use surplus
invisible black helicopters.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

"Richard Riley" wrote in message ups.com...

Tater Schuld wrote:
" jls" wrote in message
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/23/flying_car/

amazing what can be thought up when someon mounts a car on a pole for
advertising purposes

This one's kind of cute.

Go to Google Earth and enter 52 20 10.87N 0 11 43.34W




How in the world did you know to look there? Very cool shot!
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Dan DeVillers
http://www.ameritech.net/users/ddevillers/start.html


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"Jim Carriere" wrote in message
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Rich S. wrote:
"Richard Riley" wrote in message
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Go to Google Earth and enter 52 20 10.87N 0 11 43.34W

Don't leave us hangin' here, Riley. What's a Lancaster doing in a housing
development???

Left base for 30? (Zoom out a bit)

How do you impute coordinates directly to google? I got there, according to
the pointer, but it was the middle of the field, with nothing there.
--
Jim in NC

On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 13:08:16 -0600, "Gig 601XL Builder" wrDOTgiaconaATcox.net
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"Jim Carriere" wrote in message
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Rich S. wrote:
"Richard Riley" wrote in message
ups.com...
Go to Google Earth and enter 52 20 10.87N 0 11 43.34W

Don't leave us hangin' here, Riley. What's a Lancaster doing in a housing
development???

Left base for 30? (Zoom out a bit)

I doubt it. That RAF base's singe runway has an X in the middle and cars
parked in the overrun area.

Might be an airshow, with the Lanc coming around for a low pass. Would explain
all the cars parked around the field, but there isn't anybody AROUND the
cars...nor are there any airplanes visible on the field itself.

Google Earth IDs the field as "RAF Brampton Wyton Henlow". Sounds like a
non-flying base, except for motor gliders:

http://www.raf.mod.uk/stations/gen_base.html

Ron Wanttaja

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T o d d P a t t i s t wrote:

Alan Baker wrote:

I thought Google's images were from satellites...

The high res stuff particularly for urban areas is aerial
photography.

Ah. Thanks.

--
Alan Baker
Vancouver, British Columbia
"If you raise the ceiling 4 feet, move the fireplace from that wall
to that wall, you'll still only get the full stereophonic effect
if you sit in the bottom of that cupboard."