| Poster | Time | Map | Comment |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-04-12 08:46:55 | HMS Stalker | Just noticed that pictures show the name Galle in the bow. Possibly the ship was given new name when sold to Pounds? |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-04-12 07:12:05 | LARC-60 Amphibious Vehicles | Pictures from the site here:
http://community.livejournal.com/abandonedplaces/532762.html |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-04-11 14:58:28 | Old jets at former RAF Cranfield | BAC Lightning on the left is likely to be Lightning T.5, XS458:
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| Hinkkanen | 2006-04-11 05:31:08 | Emmerdale | The area is leased from Harewood Estate and also used for other series like Heartbeat & A Touch of Frost.
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| Hinkkanen | 2006-04-09 10:33:34 | Hawker Hunter XF509 | This one is outside the Humbrol factories, producers of aircraft models (Airfix) and modellers paints. Wonder if they used those little tins of paint on this one... |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-04-08 07:45:36 | Folland Gnat T.1 | On the other hand color scheme does remind me of A-7... |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-04-06 08:17:43 | Christchurch Priory Church | If you wondering about the boats almost at the church doors, that's just a map discontinuity. In reality they are just a little farther out... |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-04-05 14:49:30 | RAF Ventnor Radar Station | And more here with many photos:
http://www.westwight.clara.co.uk/ |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-04-04 04:28:14 | Folland Gnat T.1 | I think he fuselage of the aircraft is too thin to be A-7. This becames noticeable when you take the original Google Map and enlarge it 200 or even 400 % of the original size. Then that blunt nose... |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-04-03 14:33:01 | Folland Gnat T.1 | Likely to be Folland Gnat T.1 N998XR (ex RAF XR998) owned by Astre Air International and based at Front Range Airport:
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| Hinkkanen | 2006-03-30 15:24:23 | Fort Gilkicker | Thanks, I have been trying to find interesting static targets lately although I can't resist good ship or an aeroplane now and then even if it might fly or sail away in the next Google Maps update... |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-03-30 11:27:22 | RB-66B off dirt road | Douglas B-66? |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-03-30 06:34:54 | Helicopter hoisting red trailer | I'm not sure about the trailer. Where is its shadow? Perhaps the copter is just landing on the reddish square on the ground. |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-03-30 05:53:39 | Sinodun Camp hillfort | Just after posting I came across some more info, here:
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| Hinkkanen | 2006-03-29 09:19:36 | Airplane near Swindon | DC-10 |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-03-29 03:16:48 | RAF Woodvale | There was a Meteor T.7 (WA591) in the 1980s which has since been under restoration to airworthy condition by The Meteor Flight at Yatesbury:
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| Hinkkanen | 2006-03-28 09:29:16 | Abandoned Canberra and other plane parts | Its probably Canberra T.17 (WH665), pictures here:
http://www.bywat.co.uk/wh665.html
Small aircraft fuselage near might be... |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-03-20 10:33:26 | Icebreaker Varma | Yes, it is the same one. |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-03-19 14:53:36 | British Wellington Bomber | Looks like Bristol Blenheim to me or in fact Canadian built version called Bristol Bolingbroke (the only complete Blenheim is in Finland, all other survivors are Bolingbrokes, excluding a few wrecks). |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-03-17 03:30:31 | Airplane - Flying Boat over Japan | ShinMaywa US-1 or PS-1?
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| Hinkkanen | 2006-03-16 12:32:32 | Wingless Airplane at Baghdad International | Looks like Antonov AN-12 |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-03-12 15:45:39 | McDonnell Douglas YC-15 | Found more info, here:
http://www.theaviationzone.com/factsheets/amst.asp
Two YC-15s were built and one... |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-03-12 15:42:03 | McDonnell Douglas YC-15 | Looks like McDonnell Douglas YC-15:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_YC-15 |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-03-12 12:13:37 | Castle Roy | This is the general area where BBC series "Monarch of the Glen" was filmed |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-03-07 15:35:42 | Aircraft Storage Caracas International Airport | These are mostly DC-9s and Boeing 727s of Avensa which went bankrupt due to poor management in 2002. It has since been financially restructured and continues with a much smaller fleet. Picture... |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-03-06 13:49:19 | Presidente Sarmiento | My money is on Sarmiento, fine picture here:
http://www.iberosaatio.fi/Presidente%20Sarmiento.jpg |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-03-06 13:36:15 | Presidente Sarmiento | This might in fact be corvette Uruguay from 1877. Both Uruguay and Sarmiento should be around here but this is the only one I have found. |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-03-05 05:40:24 | Douglas F3D Skyknight in a playground | It's not a play structure but real aeroplane, a Douglas F3D Skyknight (later redesignated F-10) nightfighter.
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| Hinkkanen | 2006-03-04 14:48:49 | BAC Lightning F.6 | RAF serial XS928 |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-03-04 10:11:57 | BAC Lightning | That's Lightning F.6 RAF serial XS936 at the Castle Motors garage:
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| Hinkkanen | 2006-03-02 12:54:53 | Graveyard of Boeings at Cairo International Airport | There are at least four other derelict 707's in Cairo. Three are ex-Egypt Air and one from small airline called Air Memphis, this last one without wings.
One of them is possibly here:... |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-03-01 14:57:32 | KC-97 converted into a restaurant | http://www.ruudleeuw.com/search104.htm |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-03-01 12:58:28 | Vintage and firefighting aircraft | And even more info and photos here:
http://www.ruudleeuw.com/greybull-rp-may03.htm |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-03-01 09:46:52 | F-101 Voodoo sans wings | McDonnell F-101 Voodoo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-101_Voodoo |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-02-27 14:32:23 | RAF USAAF Warton | Today this airfield is a manufacturing and testing facility of the BAE Systems, more info here:
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| Hinkkanen | 2006-02-26 14:28:07 | Greenwood Lake Airport | More about the Connie:
http://www.conniesurvivors.com/N9412H.htm |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-02-26 14:12:09 | Convair XC-99 | That's not B-36 but Convair XC-99, the only prototype of the transport version of B-36, more here:
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| Hinkkanen | 2006-02-26 11:46:33 | Underground Airplane Hangers | It is Ingolstadt Manching airport (ZNQ) which doubles as Luftwaffe base. |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-02-26 11:36:17 | Junkers JU 52 | In fact one of the four, three are at Dübendorf and fourth often at Mönchengladbach, Germany. |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-02-13 11:10:45 | HMS Trincomalee & paddle steamer Wingfield Castle | Information about P.S. Wingfield Castle here:
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/tramways/WingfieldCastle.htm |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-02-12 15:38:26 | North American F-86 Sabre on Static Display at the Armed Forces Retirement Home (AFRH) | North American F-86 Sabre |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-02-09 16:13:13 | Pig Farm | A pigfarm... Nice, must be the first one posted here... |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-02-06 15:13:13 | Former airfield full of cars | Racing school is Bedford Autodrome, their website here:
http://www.bedfordautodrome.com/ |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-02-04 13:38:03 | Former airfield full of cars | RAE Bedford is the former RAF Thurleigh |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-02-02 10:16:08 | Allveelaev Lembit (The Submarine Lembit) | It's not the only one in Baltic as there is Vesikko in Helsinki:
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| Hinkkanen | 2006-02-01 12:49:10 | Kiz Kulesi | This so called Maiden's Tower was built 1n the 12th century by the Byzantine emperor Manuel Komnenos. It has served as a prison and a lighthouse and is a source of many legends. The tower was... |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-01-31 07:54:25 | More Albanian bunkers | Yes, there are over 700,000 of them. Most of them are like these, little more than pillboxes, see some of the pictures here:
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| Hinkkanen | 2006-01-30 10:58:03 | Bunkers in Albania near the Jugoslavian border | And even more pictures here:
http://noel.feld.cvut.cz/~horcik/albania/ |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-01-30 10:26:08 | Bunkers in Albania near the Jugoslavian border | Albanian bunkers are quite small. See the link on my other bunker post. |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-01-28 16:43:39 | Men at a well in the desert | Very interesting but I'm on Linux, so no Google Earth for me... |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-01-28 16:04:07 | Men at a well in the desert | This is incredible. How did you find this spot? It is so small it is almost impossible to find by random search. Or did you know it was there? |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-01-25 15:35:02 | Cruise ship in Helsinki shipyard | I just noticed there's an other one in the covered building dock. You can just see its bow sticking out. |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-01-25 15:29:23 | Baltic ferry docked in Helsinki | ...and the sleek vessel behind this one is a fast ferry running between Helsinki and Tallinn. |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-01-25 15:27:27 | Baltic ferry | Correct. Only cruiseship in Helsinki at the time these pictures were taken seem to be the one in the shipyard. |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-01-25 15:00:42 | Cruise ship in Helsinki shipyard | That's a cruiseship all right but it's not really a dock but shipyard where they are built. |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-01-25 14:54:40 | Baltic ferry docked in Helsinki | It's not a cruise ship. It's a Baltic ferry. Note the square stern and car loading pier at the back of the ship. |
| Hinkkanen | 2005-09-02 12:15:08 | Navy ships under construction | Some of these ships are likely the ones damaged by Katrina.
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| Hinkkanen | 2005-08-15 03:14:33 | RAF Finmere (closed) | Worth a closer look. They have found some interesting new uses fo those runways, |
| Hinkkanen | 2005-08-13 13:50:52 | Krivak III frigate | You are right. I have Sovremenny elsewhere (two in fact) and they differ from this one. Should have taken closer look at my references. |
| Hinkkanen | 2005-08-13 12:56:00 | Bartlow Hills Roman burial mounds | I wouldn't use the word "Indian" here... ;=) |
| Hinkkanen | 2005-08-13 12:52:16 | Elveden Hall | Water tower and probably stables. I intended to post them separately. |
| Hinkkanen | 2005-08-13 06:21:41 | Swing bridges (Auto and Aqueduct) | Fascinating... |
| Hinkkanen | 2005-08-11 07:22:36 | Forte da Insua | More history here:
http://www.hamradio-online.com/1996/sep/iotaeu150.html |
| Hinkkanen | 2005-08-11 05:31:45 | Alverca Air Base | Some interesting planes here, too, at least three Nord Noratlas transport planes, two DC-6's and possibly two DC-3's. |
| Hinkkanen | 2005-08-07 10:28:45 | Estadio Alberto J. Armando (La Bombonera) | Should be in Argentina... |
| Hinkkanen | 2005-08-07 09:25:27 | Taszar air base | Taszár was intensively used by US forces during the war in the former Yugoslavia. After the base was abandoned by the Americans Taszár was closed. |
| Hinkkanen | 2005-08-07 05:54:50 | Tököl | Was Soviet base during the cold war with the 515. Fighter Regiment with MiG-29S, MiG-29UB, one of its three squadrons was a special nuclear-bomber one, and an Army helicopter regiment with Mi-8/24... |
| Hinkkanen | 2005-08-04 04:23:19 | Istrana-Treviso Air Force Base | It's Istrana-Treviso air force base |
| Hinkkanen | 2005-08-03 13:34:58 | Nice pair of bridges | No road merges onto it because it's a railroad. If you follow it south, you'll se that it joins the main railroad line here in Sacile:
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| Hinkkanen | 2005-08-03 03:35:44 | Safdarjang Airport | This is Safdarjang Airport, formerly known as Willingdon Airfield, and used by light aviation and helicopters. There have been plans to redevelop the site. |
| Hinkkanen | 2005-08-02 07:25:38 | Oskarshamn nuclear power plant | Plant is not really in Oskarshamn but 30 km north in Simpevarp. |
| Hinkkanen | 2005-08-01 11:13:01 | Landskrona citadel | That's Landskrona citadel in the town of Landskrona |
| Hinkkanen | 2005-07-31 11:14:57 | Staatsoper & St. Hedwig's Cathedral | That's not Berlin Cathedral. It's Staatsoper and behind it St. Hedwig's Cathedral. |
| Hinkkanen | 2005-07-28 11:37:50 | Cloud shadow | Correction: The lake is Teutjärvi, not Särkijärvi (got a better map...) |
| Hinkkanen | 2005-07-28 10:15:29 | SFEN sign on the roof | I also came across that acronym but I think It's unlikely to be the one we're dealing with here |
| Hinkkanen | 2005-07-25 11:11:51 | Castello del Leone | More history here:
http://www.takeoffitaly.com/umbria.castiglione_sights.html |
| Hinkkanen | 2005-07-21 09:54:03 | Oscarborg Festning (Oskarsborg Fortress) | Some photos of the sinking of Blücher here:
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| Hinkkanen | 2005-07-21 07:18:31 | Offshore windfarm | Some information here:
http://www.middelgrunden.dk/MG_UK/project_info/vvm_english.pdf |
| Hinkkanen | 2005-07-18 11:07:18 | Sable Island (strange focusing) | It is Sable Island, more here:
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/sableisland/english_en/index_en.htm |
| Hinkkanen | 2005-07-17 12:47:54 | Darulaman Palace | There are now a plan torebuild the palace as a symbol of democratization in Afghanishtan:
http://en.darul-aman.net/ |
| Hinkkanen | 2005-07-14 10:22:19 | Satsuma-Iwojima | That's Kikai, info here:
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| Hinkkanen | 2005-07-14 09:41:42 | French Frigate Shoals | It's French Frigate Shoals:
http://www.radiojerry.com/frigate/ |
| Hinkkanen | 2005-07-14 06:12:23 | Tous New Dam & Reservoir | Info on old dam and catastrophe here (in German):
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tous-Talsperre |
| Hinkkanen | 2005-07-14 04:40:48 | Principe de Asturias Carrier (Rota Naval Base) | It's the light aircraft carrier "Principe de Asturias", the flag ship of the Spanish Navy, information & picture here:
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| Hinkkanen | 2005-07-13 08:10:03 | Le Bourget Airport (LBG) | Being also the site of Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace means that there many interesting old aircraft to be seen around the field |
| Hinkkanen | 2005-07-12 08:09:17 | Corse Island | Is it really worthwhile to post geographical features this large? |
| Hinkkanen | 2005-07-11 12:07:44 | USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) | It most likely is USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) as its homeport is Everett, Washington and homeport is the most likely place to find certain ship when it is not on active deployment somewhere... |
| Hinkkanen | 2005-07-11 08:50:00 | USS America | It is America, see the fine picture here:
http://www.navsource.org/archives/02/026639.jpg |
| Hinkkanen | 2005-07-11 05:53:34 | Abrupt-looking mountain near Los Llanos | Palma is a dangerous island:
http://www.rense.com/general56/tsu.htm |
| Hinkkanen | 2005-07-10 13:20:25 | Ships graveyard? | There are more similar groups of vessels all around the bay |
| Hinkkanen | 2005-07-09 06:29:35 | Angola Prison | http://www.newsday.com/sports/ny-pris2-side1,0,2969588.story |
| Hinkkanen | 2005-07-08 08:22:01 | Fort Eustis Mothball Fleet | Most interesting vessels here are the world's first nuclear powered cargo ship Savannah (left one of the pair of ships northernmost) and amphibious assault ship USS Guadalcanal (LPH-7, single... |
| Hinkkanen | 2005-07-08 05:41:58 | Underground Airplane Hangers | That mystery aircraft is HFB-20 Hansa Jet, more info here:
http://www.hansajet.de/indexeng.htm |
| Hinkkanen | 2005-07-06 06:56:51 | Silverstone Motor Racing Circuit | Silverstone was originally RAF WW2 airfield, one runway is still in use. |
| Hinkkanen | 2005-07-03 08:49:39 | Lotus Cars | In the UK, of course. Sorry! |
| Hinkkanen | 2005-07-03 05:13:47 | Gliders | ... at Hyvinkää airport |
| Hinkkanen | 2005-07-03 05:13:06 | Large Helicopters - Finland | This is Hyvinkää airport which served as main international airport of Finland 1944-47 when Helsinki-Malmi was reserved for exclusive use of the Allied Control Commission. |
| Hinkkanen | 2005-07-02 10:21:05 | Ostankino TV Tower | What is this doing in Brazil? |
| Hinkkanen | 2005-06-30 16:10:04 | Lop-Nor nuclear test area | I have found varying information about the exact test site. Some references locate it here:
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| Hinkkanen | 2005-06-30 06:42:30 | Floating icepack or, possibly, clouds | They are likely to be clouds |
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