Google maps, what wierd things we find on them

[chris]

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=palmdale,ca&ll=34.638273,-118.080068&spn=0.004903,0.007714&t=k&hl=en

Well, note the odd-thing in that map! Looks like Google were a little bit "spirited" in their approach to things.

[Frank N. O.]

Define spirited? Do you mean that they botched the photo up on the right, or the B-2 aka Spirit clearly visible at the left?

Btw have you seen the 360 degree .mov file of the cockpit? It looks very nice, almost like an airliner.

Frank

[chris]

Play on words, eg B-2 Spirit.. I did see the movie of the interior of the B2.


Here are some SR71's:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=rosamond+ca&ll=34.953303,-117.883869&spn=0.003455,0.006448&t=k&hl=en

Lovely old planes. :)

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=rosamond+ca&ll=34.940869,-117.890028&spn=0.003455,0.006448&t=k&hl=en
And that does look unmistakably like an F22 Raptor.

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=36.239594,-115.022961&spn=0.007961,0.010664&t=k&hl=en

Looks like 4 B1B's. Also nice exotic planes. I just wonder what makes someone want to leave them parked out in the elements.

[KyzrSoze]

I finally figured out how to link properly

Also nice exotic planes. I just wonder what makes someone want to leave them parked out in the elements.

Reminded me of this:

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=tucson+az&ll=32.157194,-110.828919&spn=0.008284,0.014453&t=k&hl=en

Nothing new I know, but still an awesome sight. Lots of cool planes in the bunch.

[chris]

Davis Monthan Aircraft Maintainence and regeneration facility or whatever they call it.

Note the B52's with the wings cut off them. And a hell of a lot more just sitting there in mothballs. Even some F111's too.

[chris]

If you look for Toulouse in France, and scroll long to find some big buildings with like a scaffolding around them, you'll see an Airbus A340 and A380 under construction, and just to the left of them, you'll see Concorde F-WTSB parked. That's the prototype with the joystick type controllers.

I presume the big plane is an A380, it's got bloody big engines on it whatever it is. :eek:

And if you look further to the right on the google maps, you can see what looks like an old Aerospatiale Super-Guppy transport aircraft.

[chris]

Here is a screenshot attached, and a photo giving you an idea of what everything is:

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/094790/L/

Note the Aerospatiale still visible on the side of the building.

[Frank N. O.]

Chris have you found a picture of the Concorde joystick-controller yet? I'd love to see how that looks too. And speaking of Concorde, where's you signature, have you quit? ;) Btw, no reply from Betafon about the add-on yet.

Greetings
Frank

[chris]

No, just tidying my signature. :)

Apparently in Christopher Orlebar's book Concorde Story there is a picture of F-WTSB's different controllers.