| Poster | Time | Map | Comment |
| kjfitz | 2007-07-09 15:56:33 | Patriot Missile Battery - Suwon Air Base | Now in permanent revetments after the latest GM update. |
| kjfitz | 2007-07-09 15:11:05 | Air Force Research Laboratory Verona Research Facility | Partly visible in BEV here:
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| kjfitz | 2007-07-08 23:45:10 | Hot air balloon being inflated | By the way - Excellent find! |
| kjfitz | 2007-07-08 23:44:30 | Hot air balloon being inflated | The support trucks are there in the E & W views but the gondola is not. I wonder if they are launching the balloon. If so then it may be in the local vicinity in the E or W views and still in the... |
| kjfitz | 2007-07-06 18:55:50 | America West landing at Oakland International (OAK) | Look the same to me. |
| kjfitz | 2007-07-05 16:07:00 | B-39 Soviet Attack Submarine on San Diego's waterfront | B-39 Soviet Attack Submarine
http://www.sdmaritime.com/contentpage.asp?ContentID=177 |
| kjfitz | 2007-07-05 16:01:09 | Royal Caribbean's 'Monarch of the Seas' lowering lifeboat in port | It is the Royal Carribean Monarch of the seas:
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| kjfitz | 2007-07-05 12:41:42 | Chinese only Golf Class Ballistic Missile Submarine | The Golf class sub is gone and now there is a Jin class ballistic missile ssub, the newest in the Chinese inventory.
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| kjfitz | 2007-07-03 16:01:22 | Rimini Beach | This article says that the beach between Rimini and Riccione has been made all-female. Sine it mentions a fifty mile long beach that is actually only five miles long and since there are many resorts... |
| kjfitz | 2007-07-03 12:33:19 | Syrian Airlines Boeing 747SP | ... |
| kjfitz | 2007-07-03 12:17:25 | AC-130H Spectre | http://www.verslo.is/bALDUR/1024/89-0513_AC-130U_06-06-27_8381_1024.jpg |
| kjfitz | 2007-07-02 17:59:28 | American Airlines 777 Landing at Heathrow | Two more views in the other direction too. |
| kjfitz | 2007-07-02 10:16:01 | Peter Max Boeing 777 | http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?front=yes&s=1&keywords=N77014 |
| kjfitz | 2007-06-30 12:19:49 | Overlay Mistake | Welcome to VGT! |
| kjfitz | 2007-06-29 18:07:02 | English Electric Lightning F.53 | http://www.aviation-picture-hangar.co.uk/F53prof2.jpg |
| kjfitz | 2007-06-29 16:22:15 | Helicopter & Emergency Personnel with a Gurney | This is great. I have to hand it to you. You find some great subjects. |
| kjfitz | 2007-06-29 16:20:59 | Hilton Paris | LOL!!! |
| kjfitz | 2007-06-29 13:27:29 | 2007-06-29 - Tiger Tiger - location of London car bomb | http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20070629/i/r2861540458.jpg |
| kjfitz | 2007-06-29 11:29:34 | Unusual red & white striped F-16 Fighting Falcon | Delta102 over on the GE forums sent me this:
This used to be an Arizona ANG viper with number #79-0357, untill it was transferred to the Vermont ANG to be used as a weapons load... |
| kjfitz | 2007-06-28 20:40:16 | M/S Andrea | You are right. Thanks! |
| kjfitz | 2007-06-28 16:15:53 | Fake Terrain | No longer censored in LL. |
| kjfitz | 2007-06-28 16:14:22 | API Falconara Marittima Refinery (Censored in Local.Live) | Now only sort of half censored in LL. |
| kjfitz | 2007-06-28 13:13:37 | F-102A Delta Dagger at Burlington International | I think this is actually an F-102A.
http://www.aero-web.org/museums/vt/vtang158/55-3462.htm |
| kjfitz | 2007-06-27 10:42:10 | Spitfire in the backyard | http://www.wallond.com/ |
| kjfitz | 2007-06-27 10:37:46 | Yucca Mountain boring machine | http://www.ocrwm.doe.gov/info_library/newsroom/photos/images/ym_08084_72dpi.jpg |
| kjfitz | 2007-06-27 10:22:42 | "Lady of the Lake" - Submerged WB-29 | http://www.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/photos/050729-F-3488S-015.jpg |
| kjfitz | 2007-06-26 18:42:19 | Banner pulled by a plane | Good job. You are the Banner King! |
| kjfitz | 2007-06-26 17:00:06 | Maltese Falcon, The (yacht) | http://www.wired.com/culture/design/magazine/15-07/ff_boat |
| kjfitz | 2007-06-26 11:02:52 | Bird in flight | You can view this by adding &z=23 to the end of the URL. |
| kjfitz | 2007-06-22 23:02:25 | F-86 refuelling (and some time later crashed) | I can't take credit for this one either. Someone just posted it on GE forums. |
| kjfitz | 2007-06-22 18:13:53 | Supermarine Swift F.4 in front of 'Sheppards Surplus' | http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0812208/M/ |
| kjfitz | 2007-06-20 16:37:06 | Royal Air Force McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II in flight | From the GE forums but I agree... great find. |
| kjfitz | 2007-06-20 12:46:59 | Millau bridge | http://ritemail.blogspot.com/2007/06/race-over-millau-bridge-france.html |
| kjfitz | 2007-06-20 11:30:23 | Vulcan bomber XL391 sold for £15,102.03 on Ebay | http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0753253/M/ |
| kjfitz | 2007-06-19 18:01:51 | Vaduz | Liechtenstein Successfully Tests Teeny Tiny Nuclear Bomb near Veduz. In violation of non-proliferation agreement, the little nation has developed an itsy bitsy arsenal of destruction:
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| kjfitz | 2007-06-19 16:02:33 | Eden Project | Not yet built in LL. |
| kjfitz | 2007-06-19 12:40:01 | Crop circle | I've not surveyed the existing crop circle database so there are probably more out there, especially with the new UK imagery in LL and GM. |
| kjfitz | 2007-06-19 12:39:07 | Crop circle | Most of the time if you find a crop circle there are others nearby to be found. Crop circles seem to pop up over time in the same area too. So if you find one in GM look in LL in the same area... |
| kjfitz | 2007-06-19 12:36:25 | 'Spirit of Enterprise' by Wendy Taylor | Good job, Lynne. Thanks! |
| kjfitz | 2007-06-18 17:52:23 | Unidentified Cool building | Closest I've come to it is tracking down the tenant of the building behind it:
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| kjfitz | 2007-06-18 17:09:42 | Unidentified Cool building | LOL!
Phillips head. Hmm, I wonder what happens if you loosen it? |
| kjfitz | 2007-06-18 10:41:58 | Hatfield Airfield (closed) | Take a look at this base in BEV. It is almost completely re-developed with just the SW corner still recognizable.
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| kjfitz | 2007-06-15 14:35:43 | Supermarine Spitfire | http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1120847/M/ |
| kjfitz | 2007-06-13 13:25:31 | Great Mosque of Samarra | Minarets blown up:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070613/ts_nm/iraq_dc_9 |
| kjfitz | 2007-06-13 12:29:44 | Boeing C-135E Speckled Trout | http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0236811/M/ |
| kjfitz | 2007-06-13 10:07:16 | Serpukhov | You already submitted this river so I moved it over to the city of Serpukhov. |
| kjfitz | 2007-06-13 10:05:46 | Serpukhov | Welcome back!
(Be sure to add links for More Info or a description.) |
| kjfitz | 2007-06-12 15:38:40 | Highway cleanup | In this view there seems to be a car stalled there and a backup behind it:
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| kjfitz | 2007-06-12 14:52:55 | Strange Mini-planes in North Korea | Discussion of them and pointers to more here:... |
| kjfitz | 2007-06-11 14:14:31 | Pierre Cardin's 'Palais Bulles' | http://www.aspeninternationalart.com/antti_lovag.htm |
| kjfitz | 2007-06-11 09:49:47 | "Noahs Ark" by Rolf Roda Reilinger | Thanks dda! |
| kjfitz | 2007-06-11 00:08:30 | 'Dorian' by Bruce Beasley | You 100th map. Way to go! |
| kjfitz | 2007-06-10 19:49:15 | A-26 Invader on Route 66 | http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1157202/M/ |
| kjfitz | 2007-06-10 19:34:51 | "Noahs Ark" by Rolf Roda Reilinger | Good job! Thanks dda. |
| kjfitz | 2007-06-08 21:08:48 | Palm Trees On a Truck | Works for me! |
| kjfitz | 2007-06-08 14:02:10 | CIA 'Black Site' for terrorist interogations | In the news today:
http://www.jg-tc.com/articles/2007/06/08/ap/international/d8pko0r80.txt |
| kjfitz | 2007-06-06 23:47:01 | Palm Trees On a Truck | Oooo this would SO make a good category for a scavenger hunt... "Tree on a truck." :) |
| kjfitz | 2007-06-06 13:35:41 | Zamora Bullring | Stage and chairs being set up in the center. |
| kjfitz | 2007-06-06 13:33:57 | Tanks-A-Lot | Tanks a lot for posting that one. |
| kjfitz | 2007-06-05 11:26:47 | Going...going...gone! The sinking of the Cariddi II. | With the fact that it is there in one view and sunk in another this goes on my all time top ten favorites. Good job! |
| kjfitz | 2007-06-04 16:40:53 | Ferry with bow opened for loading | Sometimes I just assume everyone in the world uses Snagit. :)
I do an Alt-P, position a fixed 150x150 frame and click for a thumbnail. |
| kjfitz | 2007-06-04 15:21:33 | Ferry with bow opened for loading | Hmm. It looks like the grainy thumbs started after you resumed posting in February after not posting for a while. Sometning change? It isn't too bad as this is the first time I remember noticing... |
| kjfitz | 2007-06-04 15:16:54 | Ferry with bow opened for loading | FYI... Your thumb for this was really grainy. I updated it. You can compare them in the Thumb archive. Yours aren't usually grainy. |
| kjfitz | 2007-06-04 13:38:13 | Camo roof | Definition: "A large painted picture extending over a wall or other monumental surface."
It isn't explicitly a "picture" but since it isn't really camouflage it must be some form of... |
| kjfitz | 2007-06-04 10:10:46 | Airplanes on Ciampino Airport | They are Canadair CL-415:
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1155024/M/ |
| kjfitz | 2007-06-03 16:49:30 | Airplanes on Ciampino Airport | No, I'm sorry. Examples of "Static Display"
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| kjfitz | 2007-06-03 10:46:03 | 2006 Serpentine Gallery Pavillion | Here's the 2002 Pavillion:
http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/33773/ |
| kjfitz | 2007-06-02 16:22:39 | Bournemouth Aviation Museum | Much higher res now in GE. |
| kjfitz | 2007-06-02 16:17:29 | GCHQ CSO Morwenstow | Very high res in GE now. |
| kjfitz | 2007-06-02 16:15:13 | Transatlantic Powerboat | Destriero
Designed by Donald L. Blount and Associates (DLBA) in conjuction with the French firm CMN, and built by Fincantieri (Italy) in 1989.
She's 67 m long, 13 m... |
| kjfitz | 2007-06-02 10:15:39 | Notre Dame Church | I'll always post them in the Generl Discussion area of our own forums too:
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| kjfitz | 2007-06-02 00:54:28 | Building Fire | Or is it just piles behind the building on fire? |
| kjfitz | 2007-06-01 16:16:30 | Building fire with trucks on scene | I lean towards OK. Generically it is a "building fire event" and I kinda think that's what we wanted. Based on the hoses and water run off it looks like they are still pumping some water. The fire... |
| kjfitz | 2007-05-30 18:08:59 | Fortezza di Sarzana | Well, Microsoft made a statement yesterday that they have 100 cities in BEV now and plan to have more than 500 eventually. There is hope. |
| kjfitz | 2007-05-30 16:12:55 | Spin in the straightaway | I have to say I'm tickled at todays postings. It has to rank as one of the best days of varied postings yet. Way to go folks! |
| kjfitz | 2007-05-30 11:42:23 | Maltese Falcon, The (yacht) | http://www.symaltesefalcon.com/index2.html |
| kjfitz | 2007-05-30 10:06:13 | T-34 Turbo Mentors at Oceana NAS | Good job guys! You were really up to the challenge. I have a feeling i could point out a random car and you two would figure out the year, make model, owner, and history of it. I'm impressed. |
| kjfitz | 2007-05-29 19:19:56 | Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk | 100 years old this summer:
http://www.insidebayarea.com/ci_6011628
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| kjfitz | 2007-05-29 10:52:54 | Solitude | Welcome back! |
| kjfitz | 2007-05-29 10:50:43 | US Army Nuclear and Chemical Agency | This used to be the EPG (Electronic proving ground) test track. The site comes up as a potential future site of a solid waste management facility. But... it is still used as the US Army Nuclear and... |
| kjfitz | 2007-05-29 09:55:53 | Upper Falls Letchworth State Park | Train approaching from the right. |
| kjfitz | 2007-05-26 11:25:30 | SUV limo at Forest Lawn Memorial Park | This would be a two for one in the scavenger hunt! |
| kjfitz | 2007-05-26 09:59:18 | Helipad on ship | This is the Saipem 3000
http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/31629/ |
| kjfitz | 2007-05-25 13:13:54 | 2007-04-29 - Site of Freeway Interchange Collapse | Re-opened in record time.
http://www.insidebayarea.com/ci_5981495 |
| kjfitz | 2007-05-25 10:19:12 | UNESCO Site of "Sassi di Matera" | Great post and pictures. Thanks! |
| kjfitz | 2007-05-25 08:37:32 | Michael Eisner's home | Welcome to VGT! |
| kjfitz | 2007-05-25 08:32:31 | Wohnschiff Altmark (Y891) | http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/32659/ |
| kjfitz | 2007-05-25 08:30:47 | Wohnschiff Altmark (Y891) | Thanks kaiken. I'd posted another of these and could never tell what it was. It is an Ohre Class accommodation ship. |
| kjfitz | 2007-05-24 17:50:10 | Concert in Progress | This is completely theoretical. I started to try it once but gave up pretty quickly.
There are some maps for which we know the exact date (Sydney, Berkeley, etc.) If you know the... |
| kjfitz | 2007-05-24 13:41:16 | Whale? | Too irregular and the shadow is on the ground. |
| kjfitz | 2007-05-24 12:26:49 | Southwest Airlines 'Shamu' | We're going to need a Shamu category :) |
| kjfitz | 2007-05-24 11:27:31 | San Ignacio Miní Ruins (UNESCO site) | Unfortunately we don't have the ability to add scavenger hunt categories. You'll need to resubmit it and we'll then delete this original. Sorry. |
| kjfitz | 2007-05-24 11:21:51 | Secret road to a secret base | Weapons storage igloos visible in LL. |
| kjfitz | 2007-05-24 10:14:24 | Pikachu Beetle @ Nintendo of America | Welcome back! |
| kjfitz | 2007-05-24 10:08:45 | Supertanker more than 300ft | That's actually a bulk break cargo barge being pushed by a tugboat. Sorry. |
| kjfitz | 2007-05-24 10:03:12 | Whale? | Very odd. The edge of the circle looks too smooth to be a splash. I live near whales and this isn't what they look like when they splash and they don't jump around in water that shallow. It throws a... |
| kjfitz | 2007-05-23 16:40:29 | An average vacant lot on an average city block | As a side effect, the scavenger hunt people who are posting lots of BEV maps are soaring in the stats for overall viewer counts. :) |
| kjfitz | 2007-05-23 16:36:31 | An average vacant lot on an average city block | I suspect someone has a very very poorly designed program out there. It may be the screensaver app that nic pointed out or something else. Whatever it is it only seems to affect the BEV maps. ... |
| kjfitz | 2007-05-23 12:32:35 | Mural on a radar dome (?) | This is Woody Island. Wikipedia says this is a Chinese Emergency rescue center.
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| kjfitz | 2007-05-23 11:23:44 | White Area | Looks like a stitching problem when they combined the images. This is a new type I don't think we've seen before. Good find. |
