google earth

[rich 36]

Area 51, is blanked out I know, but how do i view the bit where it should be

[andy4200]

Don't know but there's a bit in the north west corner of Oklahoma that looks a bit blank compared to the rest of the US.

[KingRichard]

What co-ordinates are area 51 then?

[rich 36]

it was put up here the other day, just searching might be needle-haystack, and i'd like the aircraft graveyard to

[KingRichard]

aircraft graveyard is near tucson, arizona

cheers clarkson

[m1spw]

Its in the landmarks bit on the left hand side (or at least it was for me), just click it and it takes you there. I had to get rid of google earth though, kept crashing my computer

[KingRichard]

I've just downloaded it... amazing what you can find... just looking for my gaff

[scared but happy]

www.pistonheads.co.uk/gassing/topic.asp?t=194830&f=141&h=0&hw=google+earth
this link should help.

[andy4200]

I was just going to say that ^^^

The plane graveyard is good.

[sleepezy]

These are a couple of good sites that give links to google maps (same photos) - you can generally get the google earth long/lat stats as well.

http://googleglobetrotting.com/
http://perljam.net/google-satellite-maps/

Both are categorised so you can search by location/what you're looking for - 1st one seems better for 'unusual' stuff, 2nd for known locations.

Try not to spend to much time on them...

[Eric Mc]

"Plane Graveyard" - proper title is AMARC Davis Monthan Air Force Base, Tuscon, Arizona.

Although not as spectacular there are airliner "graveyards" and storage facilities at Mojave and Marana Airports, California.

Just to let you know, the number of aircraft stored at Davis Monthan is about 1/3 what it was immediately after the end of the Vietnam War in 1974/75.
Although many of the aircraft end up being scrapped, quite a few are in storage and are available to re-enter service following a few weeks refurbishment.

[likesbikes]

Wow! Until I read this thread I never knew there was such a thing, cheers guys.


Only thing is, I can't zoom in on my town enough to recognise individual buildings (Such has my house). Am I expecting too much or is it just that the graphic thing in my computer is a bit crap?


You may notice by my use of the term "Graphic thing" I don't know much about computers

[m1spw]

Can you see that big white chalk horse thats in the south of the UK on this? No idea where it is/near.

m1spw

[Eric Mc]

Different parts of the world are coverd to different levels of resolution. You may live in a fairly low res area. Where I am in Farnborough is pretty sharp. Not only can you se my house and car on the drive, but Farnborough airfield is very clear with individual aircraft easily visinle. In fact, you can see clearly the Blackburn Buccaneer on display outside QinetiQ's HQ building at Pyestock.

[likesbikes]

m1spw said:

Can you see that big white chalk horse thats in the south of the UK on this? No idea where it is/near. m1spw

There's about 6 or 7 around wiltshire. Can't find one though.

[Eric Mc]

Plus a rather "naughty" man.

[rich 36]

Not very good at maps, but trying to align the lat/long going by this image, is not going to happen




is it near any bloody thing!

[rich 36]

Right Las Vegas,
"Groom lake, right straight past the shops.no right at the Spar then on for a bit and....

[Uriel]

I spent a while the other night looking for the Nazca lines/drawings/figures/animals. Couldn't find them though. I'm not too sure how big they are and how visible they'd be. Maybe that area isn't high enough resolution or I was just looking in wrong place.

[tinman0]

"graveyard arizona" lat=32.1679511142, lon=-110.859508959



ok stupid question coming up - how do you get the little hand to come back again? i keep getting cross hairs and cant figure out what to smash to get the hand.