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FedEx Boeing 727 [N288FE] Stuck in Mud
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N288FE a FedEx Boeing 727-200 cargo jet named Michelle, is stuck in the mud at Cahokia Airport. This retired three engine cargo jet, built in 1979 was first operated by Ozark Airlines, then Pan Am, and eventually was converted to a freight hauler and operated by Federal Express. When fedEx retired it from service in May of 2013 they donated it to the St Louis Downtown Cahokia Airport for Fire Fighter training. Its final flight was to CPS where it was left by its three man crew. Later, as it was being towed to the northwest corner of the airport, it sank into a muddy field. At an empty weight of 98,400 lbs the soft ground it was being moved on to could not support the aircraft weight. It came to rest with the main landing gear sunk in the field and the nose gear resting on a city street.
Video of the incident: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3ows952az4

View from Burj Khalifa (154th floor)
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163 total floors, this view is the highest view visible in SV

Muammar Gaddafi's Personal Airplane - Airbus A340 [5A-ONE]
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Used to transport Gaddafi, currently in storage in France

Embraer EMB-712 Tupi [PT-VKH]
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Jiangnan Shipyard
The shipyard builds, repairs and converts both civilian and military ships. Other activities include the manufacture of machinery and electrical equipment, pressure vessels and steel works for various land-based products.

Flyby of Space Shuttle Enterprise on Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft
"At approximately 9:40 am Eastern Daylight Time on April 27, 2012 Enterprise took off from Dulles International Airport en-route to a fly-by over the Hudson River, New York's JFK International Airport, the Statue of Liberty, the George Washington and Verrazano-Narrows Bridges, and several other landmarks in the city, in an approximately 45-minute "final tour". At 11:23 am Eastern Daylight Time Enterprise touched down at JFK International Airport."
Back view: http://goo.gl/maps/kbzWA

Rickrolling Google Employee
Check his computer screen: that's Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" playing twice.
Looks like a hidden joke

Drydocks at Lisnave shipyards

Pyramiden, Svalbard
Pyramiden (meaning "the pyramid" in Swedish and other Scandinavian languages; called Пирамида, piramida, in Russian) is an abandoned Russian settlement and coal mining community on the archipelago of Svalbard, Norway. It was founded by Sweden in 1910 and sold to the Soviet Union in 1927. It lies at the foot of the Billefjorden on the island of Spitsbergen and is named for the pyramid-shaped mountain adjacent to the town.

United Airlines Landing (Closeup!)
@ O'hare airport

Prelude FLNG - Largest Ship Ever Built
This behemoth is 488 metres (1,601 ft) long

FDNY Tactical Support Unit (TSU) 1

Limerick Nuclear Power Plant
The Limerick Generating Station in Pennsylvania is located next to the Schuylkill River in Limerick Township, Montgomery County, northwest of Philadelphia. The facility has two General Electric boiling water reactor (BWR) units, cooled by natural draft cooling towers. When conditions are right, these cooling towers emit enough water vapor to be seen as far away as Centralia in Columbia County.
The two units are capable of producing almost 1,200 megawatts of power each, which combined would provide electricity to over 2 million households. Exelon Corporation owns and operates this facility.

Titanic Museum
The Titanic Museum is a two-story museum shaped like the RMS Titanic. It is located in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee and opened on April 8, 2010. It is built half-scale to the original ship. Similar to the one in Branson, Missouri, the museum holds 400 pre-discovery artifacts in twenty galleries. It is the largest permanent Titanic museum in the world.

Drydocks @ Qingdao Beihai Shipbuilding
Qingdao Beihai Shipbuilding Heavy Industry Co., Ltd. (BSIC), who was firstly established in 1898 and is now one of the large key-shipyards under the China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (CSIC), is mainly engaged in the businesses of shipbuilding, ship-repairing and conversion, building of and repairing on off-shore projects, building of large-size steel structures, designing and building of GRP boats and relative davits.

Longyearbyen, Svalbard
Longyearbyen is the largest settlement and the administrative center of Svalbard, Norway. As of 2008, the town had a population of 2,040. Longyearbyen is located in the valley of Longyeardalen and on the shore of Adventfjorden, a bay of Isfjorden located on the west coast of Spitsbergen. Since 2002, Longyearbyen Community Council has had many of the same responsibilities of a municipality, including utilities, education, cultural facilities, fire department, roads and ports. The town is also the seat of the Governor of Svalbard and is the world's northernmost town.

Drydocks @ Samsung Heavy Industries
Samsung Heavy Industries or SHI (Korean: 삼성중공업, Hanja: 三星重工業) is one of the largest shipbuilders in the world and one of the "Big Three" shipbuilders of South Korea. A core subsidiary of the Samsung Group, South Korea's largest conglomerate, SHI's main focus is on constructing ships, offshore floaters, gantry cranes, digital devices for ships, and other construction and engineering concerns.
This shipyard was featured in National Geographic Channel’s program “Megastructures”.

Drydock at Keppel Subic Shipyard
Situated in the north of Subic Bay on the main Philippine island of Luzon, Keppel Subic is strategically located to serve ocean going vessels on the Asian route. It is 67 nautical miles by sea and 145 km by land from Manila, the capital of the Philipines.

All White, Unmarked Boing 747 Landing

Vogtle Electric Generating Plant
The Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, also known as Plant Vogtle, is a 2-unit nuclear power plant located in Burke County, near Waynesboro, Georgia in the southeastern United States. It is named after the Alabama Power and Southern Company board chairman, Alvin Vogtle

Mr. Frosty Soft Serve Ice Cream Truck

Columbia Generating Station
The Columbia Generating Station, is a nuclear power station located on the United States Department of Energy Hanford Site, 12 miles (19 km) NW of Richland, Washington. Its site covers 1,089 acres (441 ha) of Benton County, Washington.

Oconee Nuclear Station
The Oconee Nuclear Station is a nuclear power plant located on Lake Keowee near Seneca, South Carolina, and has an energy output capacity of over 2,500 megawatts. It is the second nuclear power plant in the United States to have its operating license extended for an additional twenty years by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) (the application for the Calvert Cliffs plant in Maryland preceded it).

View from Burj Khalifa (73rd floor)
And here's the view in the other direction: http://goo.gl/maps/162FS

RAF Dishford Helicopter

Consolidated B-24 Liberator "Witchcraft" WWII Heavy Bomber Landing
"Participating in the Collings Foundation's WINGS OF FREEDOM TOUR, the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress "Nine O Nine" WWII Heavy Bomber, Consolidated B-24 Liberator "Witchcraft" WWII Heavy Bomber and P-51 Mustang "Betty Jane", will fly into Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport in Denver, CO for a visit from July 7 to July 9. This is a rare opportunity to visit, explore, and learn more about these unique and rare treasures of aviation history. The B-17 is one of only 9 in flying condition in the United States, the B-24J and Dual Control P-51C Mustang are the sole remaining examples of their type flying in the World."

USAF 145th Airlift Wing C-130 Hercules Landing

Dubai Royal Air Wing Boeing 747-400
"Dubai Air Wing is the airline of the government of Dubai, United Arab Emirates."

River Bend Nuclear Generating Station
River Bend Nuclear Generating Station is a nuclear power station on a 3,300-acre (1,300 ha) site near St. Francisville, Louisiana, approximately 30 miles (50 km) north of Baton Rouge. The plant has a General Electric 978 MW boiling water reactor, which began operation on June 16, 1986.

Car Accident in Russia

A-10 Thunderbolt II [355 FW]

"Air Horse One" Tex Sutton Kalitta Charters Boeing 727-224/Adv(F) [N725CK]
Notably, Kalitta Charters owns and operates a Boeing 727-200 aircraft for Tex Sutton Enterprises in Lexington, KY, exclusively to transport horses. The aircraft has been configured and painted for this purpose and features Tex Sutton’s logo and the words ‘First Class Equine Air Travel’ on the fuselage. The new designation for Kalitta Charters N725CK is ‘Air Horse One’. The passengers carried aboard this aircraft are priceless thoroughbred racehorses, including Kentucky Derby winners.

Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station
The Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station is a nuclear power plant located in Tonopah, Arizona, about 45 miles (80 km) west of central Phoenix. It is the largest nuclear generation facility in the United States, averaging over 3.3 gigawatts (GW) of electrical power production in 2008 to serve approximately 4 million people. Arizona Public Service (APS) owns 29.1% of the station and operates the facility. Other owners include Salt River Project (17.5%), El Paso Electric Co. (15.8%), Southern California Edison (15.8%), PNM Resources (10.2%), Southern California Public Power Authority (5.9%), and the Los Angeles Dept. of Water & Power (5.7%).

General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper from Creech AFB
Not the closest shot, but its the first drone ive seen in flight in streetview.

Drydock at Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering
Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co., Ltd (DSME) (Korean: 대우조선해양) is the second largest shipbuilder in the world and one of the "Big Three" shipbuilders of South Korea.

Drydocks at Hyundai Heavy Industries HQ
There's a few enormous ships in there, including an 1190ft container ship.
Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. (HHI) is the world's largest shipbuilding company, headquartered in Ulsan, South Korea. The company is a subsidiary of Hyundai Heavy Industries Group. It has seven business divisions: Shipbuilding, Offshore & Engineering, Industrial Plant & Engineering, Engine & Machinery, Electro & Electric Systems, Construction Equipment, and Green Energy.

Red Helicopter over Downtown Manhattan Heliport

Rockwell B-1 Lancer in Flight
The Rockwell B-1 Lancer is a four-engine variable-sweep wing strategic bomber used by the United States Air Force (USAF). First envisioned in the 1960s as a supersonic bomber with sufficient range and payload to replace the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress, it developed primarily into a low-level penetrator with long range and supersonic speed capability at high altitude.

ARR GP40-2 #3010 - Lead Train in film "Runaway Train"
This train was the lead train in the 1985 film "Runaway Train." This train is still active, as seen here, on the Alaska Railroad.

Mil Mi-6
The Mil Mi-6 (NATO reporting name Hook) was a Soviet/Russian heavy transport helicopter designed by the Mil design bureau and built in large numbers for both military and civil roles.

USNS Charlton (T-AKR-314) in Drydock
USNS Charlton (T-AKR-314) is one of Military Sealift Command's nineteen Large, Medium-Speed Roll-on/Roll-off Ships and is part of the 33 ships in the Prepositioning Program. She is a Watson-class vehicle cargo ship named for Sergeant Cornelius H. Charlton, a Medal of Honor recipient.

Inside Southwest Airlines airplane

Drydocks at Hanjin Heavy Industries' Yeong-do Shipyard

Military Plane Leaving AF Plant 42
Can anyone ID the plane type? It's a 4-engine propeller plane, probably military considering the Airport.

Fighter Jet over Corpus Christi
The shape and the speed of it make me pretty sure its a fighter jet. Corpus Christi doesn't house any though, so I can't be sure of the type.

Antique Car Dealership

Skiing in Sölden, Austria
New imagery!

Marine One / Donald Trump @ Downtown Manhattan Heliport
Donald Trump visiting NYC, with the two HMX-1 Sikorsky VH-3D Sea King helicopters at the heliport

New England Aquarium
One of the few aquariums I personally have been to.

Royal Air Force C-130 in California
UK Airplane at San Luis Airport in CA

Emirates Airbus A380-800 Landing @ Heathrow

Blue Angels "Fat Albert" at NAS JRB Fort Worth
This plane (C-130T) has since retired from service (May 2019) and will be replaced with an ex-RAF C-130J in 2020.

ROCAF Lockheed C-130 Hercules Landing @ Kaohsiung
This is a commercial, non-military airport so it's odd that it'd be landing here and not at Pingtung AFB up north.
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ROKAF Lockheed C-130 Hercules Landing
ROKAF = Republic of Korea Air Force

Streetview visits Las Vegas Motor Speedway

Soviet submarine B-39
B-39 was a Project 641 (Foxtrot-class) diesel-electric attack submarine of the Soviet Navy. The "B" (actually "Б") in her designation stands for большая (bolshaya, "large") — Foxtrots are among the largest non-nuclear submarines ever built. B-39 is now a museum ship on display at the Maritime Museum of San Diego, California, United States.

St. Lucie Nuclear Power Plant
The plant contains two nuclear reactors in separate containment buildings. However, the plant does not have the classic hyperboloid cooling towers found at many inland reactor sites; instead, it uses nearby ocean water for coolant of the secondary system.

Mil Mi-2 Hoplite (7739) @ Košice Museum of Aviation

Taiwanese C-130 Hercules Landing @ Tainan Airport

Trainer Takeoff from Kadena Airbase

KC-135 takeoff from Lackland AFB

Burj Khalifa Fountains
Walk along the path to see the water display

Dublin Airport Fire and Rescue Service Training plane

Hot Air Ballooning over Matera, Italy

Google SV Getting Gas in Las Vegas

USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67)

PLA HAMC Harbin Z-9B
PLA = People's Liberation Army
HAMC = Harbin Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation
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Harbin Z-9
A Malinese Air Force Z-9B coming in to land.
Role Medium multi-purpose utility helicopter
Manufacturer Harbin Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation
First flight 1981
Introduction 1994
Status Operational In production
Primary users China
Pakistan Naval Air Arm
Produced 1981-present
Number built 200
Developed from Aérospatiale Dauphin
Variants Harbin Z-19
The Harbin Z-9 (NATO reporting name "Haitun") is a Chinese military utility helicopter. It is a license-built version of the French Eurocopter AS365 Dauphin, and is manufactured by Harbin Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation.

Navajo Bridge (from below)
Navajo Bridge crosses the Colorado River's Marble Canyon near Lee's Ferry in the US state of Arizona. It carries U.S. Route 89A. Spanning Marble Canyon, the bridge carries northbound travelers to southern Utah and to the Arizona Strip, the otherwise inaccessible portion of Arizona north of the Colorado River, which includes the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park.

FedEx Express MD-11 Landing

Watts Bar Nuclear Generating Station
The Watts Bar Nuclear Power Plant is a Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) nuclear reactor used for electric power generation. It is located on a 1,770-acre (7.2 km²) site in Rhea County, Tennessee, near Spring City, between the cities of Chattanooga and Knoxville. Watts Bar Unit 1 is the most recent civilian reactor to come on-line in the United States. Watts Bar supplies enough electricity for about 750,000 households in the Tennessee Valley.

US Navy P-8A Poseidon [LN-434] (VP 45)
The Boeing P-8 Poseidon (formerly the Multimission Maritime Aircraft or MMA) is a military aircraft developed for the United States Navy (USN). The aircraft has been developed by Boeing Defense, Space & Security, modified from the 737-800ERX.

Tupolev Tu-22
The Tupolev Tu-22 (NATO reporting name: Blinder) was the first supersonic bomber to enter production in the Soviet Union. Manufactured by Tupolev, the Tu-22 entered service with the Soviet military in the 1960s, and the last examples were retired during the 1990s. Produced in comparatively small numbers, the aircraft was a disappointment, lacking the intercontinental range that had been expected. Later in their service life, Tu-22s were used as launch platforms for the Soviet AS-4 stand-off missile, and as reconnaissance aircraft. Tu-22s were sold to a number of other nations, including Libya and Iraq. The Tu-22 was one of the few Soviet bombers to see combat, with Libyan Tu-22s being used against Tanzania and Chad, and Iraq using its Tu-22s during the Iran-Iraq War.

Military Cargo Plane over Miramar

Burbank PD MD520 Helicopter

Super Secret Strategic Pue Plan
Looks like a joke from Google, intentionally placed there for Streetview.

Monaco underwater shoreline
In October 2013 we were invited by the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco to help them reveal the 2km of coastline that the Mediterranean Sea touches the principality of Monaco. It was our first temperate (cooler) water collect and this image shows just how clear the Sea is which is remarkable considering the traffic in the Med!
That's the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco above the water

Southwest Airlines "Triple Crown One" Boeing 737-3H4 (N647SW)
Livery (1997) dedicated to the employees of Southwest, in recognition of Southwest receiving five Triple Crown airline industry awards (best on-time record, best baggage handling, and fewest customer complaints). The overhead bins in Triple Crown One one are inscribed with the names of all employees that worked for Southwest at the time, in honor of their part in winning the award.

Icelandic Air Policing Operation - Taking off Fighter Jets

Overhead Helicopter @ Fort Hood

Rockwell B-1 Lancer takeoff from Nellis AFB

Waterford Nuclear Generating Station
The Waterford Steam Electric Station, Unit 3, also known as Waterford 3, is a nuclear power plant located on a 3,000-acre (1,200 ha) plot in Killona, Louisiana, in St. Charles Parish.

Byron Nuclear Generating Station
The Byron Nuclear Generating Station is a nuclear power plant located in Ogle County, Illinois, 2 miles (3.2 km) east of the Rock River. The reactor buildings were constructed by Commonwealth Edison and house two Westinghouse pressurized water reactors, Unit 1 and Unit 2, which first began operation in September 1985 and August 1987 respectively. The plant was built for Commonwealth Edison and is currently owned and operated by its parent company, Exelon Corporation.

Delta Air Lines Landing in Atlanta
Closeup shot, but Delta flies so many different models I don't know which one it is.

Sea King HC.4
Originally found by (Munden)

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25
The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 (Russian: Микоян и Гуревич МиГ-25) (NATO reporting name: Foxbat) is a supersonic interceptor and reconnaissance aircraft that was among the fastest military aircraft to enter service. Designed by the Soviet Union's Mikoyan-Gurevich bureau the first prototype flew in 1964 with entry into service in 1970. It has a top speed of Mach 2.83+ (as high as Mach 3.2, but at risk of significant damage to the engines), and features a powerful radar and four air-to-air missiles.

Humpback Whales
Part of the Caitlin Seaview Survey

IDF Unit 669 Medevac Extraction Unit in Flight
669 (Hebrew: יחידת החילוץ והפינוי בהיטס 669,Yechidat Hilu'z Vehapinu'i Behethes 669; English: Airborne Rescue And Evacuation Unit 669) is the Israel Defense Forces heliborne medevac extraction unit, subordinate to the Special Air Forces Command of the Israeli Air Force. It is considered one of the IDF's premier elite units.

2 Helicopters Defensive Flying Training

Another angle: http://goo.gl/maps/TrVZU

Hope Creek Nuclear Generating Station / Salem Nuclear Power Plant
Salem shares Artificial Island in the Delaware Bay with the Hope Creek Nuclear Generating Station.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_Nuclear_Power_Plant

Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker Landing @ March Air Reserve Base

KLM Landing in Moscow

Heavy Smoke on Highway
Looks like some sort of fire or accident. Not sure if it's on the highway or slightly off, but traffic seems to be forming.

Seaplane Takeoff Lake Hood

USAF F-15E Strike Eagle (4 FW)

Landing at Catania-Fontanarossa Airport

F-15 Eagle from 173d Fighter Wing

Quad Cities Nuclear Generating Station
Quad Cities Generating Station is a two-unit nuclear power plant located near Cordova, Illinois, USA on the Mississippi River. The two General Electric boiling water reactors give the plant a total electric capacity of approximately 1,824 MW. It was named for the nearby cities of Moline, Illinois, Rock Island, Illinois, Davenport, Iowa, East Moline, Illinois, and Bettendorf, Iowa — known as the Quad Cities.

US Airways Airbus A319 (N733UW) - Pittsburgh Steelers Livery
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C-130 Takeoff from Kadena Airbase