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I wonder if this is the same property described in the following article?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/8323981/Vladimir-Putin-has-600-million-Italianate-palace.html

The area in the photo looks smaller that the 74 hectares (= 1000 x 740 meters ) mentioned in the article.

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Vickers Varsity T1 N65558 the former WJ948 is in external storage at El Paso - West Texas Airport still in Royal Air Force colour scheme .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickers_Varsity

That's clearly about a 40 ft boat. But, is that Nessie hiding underneath to avoid being seen by satellites, or was this taken at the moment she surged over the boat's transom Jaws style to grab the helpless boat passengers and feed her children seen swimming 150 feet to the west? Of course, in the real world, its just the boat's wake and just something floating in the water.

Interesting location for a supposedly American company. Deep in Mancuria and less than a mile from the Russian border and close to a spur of the Trans Siberian RR...although there is no apparent bridge. I bet the engineers are a lot cheaper to hire here than in Michigan.

Cool find. Are you sure its not a rift in the space/time continuum. LOL

F-84F Thunderstreak
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-84F_Thunderstreak
F-86 has more tapered wing and horizontal stabilizer

Krasnoye Sormovo Shipyard
http://www.sinodefence.com/navy/sub/kilo.asp
Article discusses how Kilo Class subs manufactured here for China.

Why are the Dutch so secretive? Do you think they are hiding the massive fleet they are going to use to take over the world? LOL

Thanks. I think you nailed it. I didn't have enough time to get serious with the research.

Most of this seems to be Spirit Aerosystem, a major Boeing subcontractor that makes 737 fuselages and other assemblies. http://www.spiritaero.com/fuselage.aspx?id=88

I believe that Kitzigen is in Bavaria in southern Germany. The airport shown would have been in the former East Germany.

The map copied at the wrong zoom. Zoom in to view.

This is a really sharp find. The plane looks pretty intact to have had accident-related fatalities. There are at least 5 other wrecked aircraft about 1/2 mile SSW.

Yes, but warmer in this photo than it will be in July. LOL

I have nothing to do with Blackwater. Suggest you look here: http://www.blackwaterusa.com/

I forgot to sign in...anonymous was me.

I'm pretty sure that's Hawker Hunter, not a Gnat.

That's nearly 200 ft long. Several whales nose to tail? ...or some small boats rafted up?
Whatever it is, that's a cool find a long way from land.

I don't have muchtime for this any more. I think this must be in a new high-res zone...Google Earth had 'i' s all over this airport. ...including the VM-T. i got there after seeing a U-Tube video of some new Mig and named the airfield as "Zurkovski." I suspect there are more good leads on U-tube.

The Zhukovski Russian air base SE of Moscow seems to have a 17,600 ft runway, as measured by Google earth.

55.55718500~38.12449000

These are great finds. I find it interesting that the roof of one building still says CCCP (USSR).

A French-made Sud Caravelle...a rare find in the US. United used to fly them in the 60s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sud_Caravelle That article says: " * An unidentified Caravelle model is located at the Pima Community College Aviation Technology Center, 7211 S. Park Avenue, Tucson Arizona. The aircraft has been stripped of any paint/markings, and is easily seen from the roadway that passes just west of the Center."...

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Hi kjfitz .. I forgot to log in when adding the above.

It looks a lot like this ship: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaisei_(ship), but that means the sat image must be a few years old.

I think this may be a cable laying ship. The round wells are where they stored the cable. It has about the same LOA and Beam as the one shown in this link.

There also appears to be what could be a fitting to feed the cable over the stern.

Thanks to Pdunn's Viscount post for getting me in the Brownsville neighborhood. That's a plane I flew on several times as a kid.

They are Sikorsky CH-37s. with a few CH-34s in the back row. In 1970 there were several of these at Coleman AAF in Manheim, Germany. I was there for 14 months and saw one fly. The CH-37 was the piston-engine forerunner of the turbine CH-53s and CH-54s. The big P&W radials used on 37s and 34s sounded incredibly loud and macho.

Just to the left is a rare Blackburn Buccaneer, one of the best low-altitude attack planes of the cold war. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackburn_Buccaneer
I wanted to submitt this myself a few weeks ago, but I still can't figure out how to get a Live Local URL using a Macintosh with Firefox.

That part of the world can be incredibly quiet when the wind is calm, you can go for days without hearing a plane or anything man made. I spent from June to September 1975 here (69.90578,-131.329193) living in a tent and mostly alone, running a SHORAN transponder beacon used to navigate (before GPS) a seismic survey ship looking for oil. I was a bit wacky by the end of it, but I'd go back to see more of the NWT in a second.

I measured it on google earth, 12 ft beam and 95-100 ft long, unless that is a small zodiac tied to the stern and then it's about 80-85 LOA. Still, that's pretty skinny. There's a faint shadow of a fore mast and main mast that would imply a schooner. ...or it could be a submarine. LOL

It's a CH-47 Chinnok. There are a few UH-60 Black hawks nearby with external fuel tanks--Special ops perhaps. I was stationed at Coleman Army Airfield in 1970-71, fixing avionics on OH-13s, CH-34s, Hueys, and fixed wing VIP aircraft. The used to have some big old CH-37s, but I never saw any flying. On Google Map, there is a small interesting looking jet, but there is now a building there in the higher-res GM images.

Here's the link to the museum:
http://www.luftwaffenmuseum.de/museum_en.htm

Possibly Dasault Super Etendard
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Etendard
With several Lockheed Orions, a Neptune, and an Grumman tracker on display elsewhere on the base, I suspect this is a navy air base. near the water too.

I think it is a Grumman S2F Tracker. The wings, engine nacalles and tail are similar to the B-26, but the short stubby nose is clearly a Tracker. I used to see these all the time over Long Island Sound in the 1960s. They had a very distinctive sound.

The Dutch have a lot of map blotching. There is a different kind of blurring I've seen in several places. Last year I remember seeing a pretty clear U2 on this airport on Long Island NY. Now it is all blotched up. See this link.
http://tinyurl.com/yd38sb

The Essex and others of this class were modified with angled decks in the 1950s. the Intrepid in NYC is an Essex class.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Essex_%28CV-9%29

the bow ramp is similar to the Kuznetsov
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_aircraft_carrier_Kuznetsov

Bizarre! The area around it has amazing buildings, parks, Golf course, Maze,(31.107533,121.002495) and how did that carrier get there? It's more like an Essex class carrier. 6-700 ft long, smaller than a Nimitz or the Varyag. I think it must be a fake because it is so land-locked, but that is a lot of fake. Maybe for training the new real carrier crews?

Bristol Britannia or maybe a Canadair CL-44
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Britannia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadair_CL-44

my guess is a Hunting Jet Provost --- RAF trainer of 1960s

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunting_Jet_Provost

The plane just south of the 990 appears to be a De Havilland of Canada, DHC-4 Caribou. Got to ride in these several times in the Army.

Looks like a De Havilland Tiger Moth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Tiger_Moth

Saw lots of these as a kid in England

Main Flight Test Center named after V.Chkalov at Vladimirovka near Akhtubinsk, Moscow region

I don't think it is a YO-3A, but rather the earlier verison QT-2 shown in the upper left corner of the first photo panel on this page.
http://www.yo-3a.com/history.html
Note the way the vertical stabilizer is forward of the horizonal stabilizer; the shape of the wing, and the single seat cockpit. It's just the propeller that is either missing or too small to see.

Lockheed Quiet Star YO-3A After the vietnam war I recall reading about super-quite recon planes that flew at night at low levels.
here... I've found it on Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army-Lockheed_YO-3A

Visit this again. lots of new US A/C and some serious bunkers on the south east end of the airport.

Armstrong Whitworth Argosy -- British from 1960s

There is another DC-3 just over the runway threshold about a mile ahead. I wonder if these are different planes, or the same one in different frames. The (modern) Zepelin factory is on the north side of the Runway.

At first I thought it was a ghost shift. But you are right about the details that match up. I'm guessing the showing runways on the right were built after the area on the left was photographed.

I think the AC at the bottom of the thumbnail facing NNW is a ShinMaywa US-1 amphibian. It has a high wing, skinny body and T tail. An interesting plane.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ShinMaywa_US-1

Cool find. I think the swept wing, 2 engine, T-tail plane might be a Kawasaki C-1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawasaki_C-1

Sud (SNCASO) Vautour Light bomber used by France and Israel in '50s

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sud_Aviation_Vautour#External_links

cool French site: http://tinyurl.com/rrwfk

Good link: http://ekati.bhpbilliton.com/

Good AWACs/China links kjfitz. You've had some great finds. China's outback is interesting. There's what looks like a bombing range just to the east of this base. I'm on a Mac so the automated submission is not an option and each one takes a good chunk of time.

Beech Starship http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beech_Starship
Lots here: http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/6366/

Cool Find! Your linked chart says the H-5 is based on the IL-28 which is a straight-wing bomber comparable to a skinny-winged Canberra. This then is probably a H-6 which is based on the TU-16 Badger, which is comparable of a B-47 in size and capabilities.

Another twin engine transport off the end of the runway to the NW.

I'm pretty sure this is a Lockheed S-3 Viking. The plane George W Bush flew for his "Mission Accomplished" carrier landing.