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7000th map!

Cool find!

Egyptian SA-2 is named Tayir as Sabah.

Looks like reflective glare. Smaller cases of it have been seen elsewhere but this is the biggest instance of it.

Of course the conspiracy kooks will say "white out" hiding the entry to a secret UFO bunker.

Because it is back in the trees like it is I was thinking that it wasn't so much used for aerial training as perhaps ground assault training, maybe by special forces. The SEAL teams do a lot of training in these woods.

Oops, you're right. It's a MiG-21F.

A-7E Corsair II (Navy)
A -12 Blackbird (Air Force)
Aero L-39C (Basic & Advanced Trainer
Cessna 310A
CH-54B Skycrane Helicopter (Army National Guard)
F-4N Phantom II (Navy)
F - 84F Thunderstreak
F-100C Super Sabre (Air Force)
F -105F Thunderchief (Air Force)
F-111A Aardvark
Grumman S-2 Tracker
MIG-21 Fishbed (Air Force)
R4D-6Q Gooney Bird / DC-3/C-47J
T-2C Buckeye (Navy)
T-37B Tweety Bird (Air...

Thanks! I just submitted it in your name.

Thanks, Analogman!

Please don't post hybrid mode thumbnails.

I doubt those are missiles but I don't have any idea what they are. They look like they have tails like a helicopter. They are the size of other helicopters. But they have those white halves.

Does anyone know what sports are played here?

I think it is just a target.

Please don't submit hybrid mode thumbnails.

Used to be Williams Air Force Base.

After hunting around for pictures I agree that this ship isn't the Garibaldi. The Garibaldi has a square bow where the deck overhangs the bow. I don't know about the others. globalsecurity.org has a page of carrier deck layouts and this one doesn't match any of them so that may lend creedence to it being an amphib.

Correct. I thumbnailed that because it is just about the only thing in the whole range worth looking at (other than the NSA site.) But I updated the titl to be more accurate.

Makes sense. Thanks.

I'm thinking that the northern bridge may be a Roman aqueduct. If you follow the 'road' to the east it doesn't look like a road. At times other roads parallel it or cross it but it never looks like other roads merge onto it. Then it crosses another river and that too has those signature roman arches.

"Huh? What is this? It can't be!"



"Oh, I see. Cute. Hmmm, interesting too."

Oops. Thanks!

That crane is huge. About 400 feet long.

6000th map

Thanks for all the great maps!

It actually does look like Rose Island but Rose Island was blown un in the late 1960s. I don't think the images are quite that old. :)

The base map images for the Philly area were taken in May 2002. Some of the pictures in the surounding areas were taken as early as 2000. So this was taken between 200 and 2002.

ROTFL!!!

This is a Nike Missile SITE. Note the catagories? "abandoned"

Missiles were deployed here in the 60s. These sites are scattered all over the country. Nike missiles don't exist anymore and haven't been deployed in the US since the 70s.

Of course those are school busses. Type "nike" in the search box. Some sites still look operational, some are gone completely, and some have been converted to other uses.

Movies shot at this airport:

DieHard II
Dragnet II
Executive Decision
Hot Shots
MacArthur
The Rookie
Spartan
Speed
S*W*A*T
The Stand
Thirteen Days
Tuskegee Airmen
Waterworld

They look like evaporation ponds to me. Used for extracting minerals.

Looks like a traget SAM site.

Air Force One is kept secure inside the facility in the lower left corner of the airfield.

Is that a polite way of saying "Idiot, NEW Mexico is a US state!?"

Thanks!

TexasAndroid and I are moderators. Nic actually runs it.

Anyone have an English translation for the comment above?

Excelent. Thanks!

Good job. Thanks!

I think those are target tanks. They aren't flying/ nThe shadow they cast are the same dimension and sirection as the objects to to the SE of the fake runways.

There are target airplanes on the runways just to the NE too.

It can just be made out but there is a copy of the Statue of Liberty on the southern tip of the island just to the SE of the radio station. Look at it's shadow and you can make out the raised arm.

You get the credit. When I posted mine I decided I'd delete it if you duped it today. In the future I'll bookmark it and wait a day.

That would be "Big John." 20 stories tall.

They do that to gain altitude over a short distance. There's a neat pair of tunnels near the Canadian Glacir National Park that does two separate 360 degree loops entirely within the mountains on either side of a steep valley.

Look NW and compare the size of the dump trucks to the cars. Huge.

All of your "More info" links have been broken. They are for URLs to more info. INstead they have just contained the words "São Paulo."

Sigh... at least they used it.

You must have missed the THREE billion spent on the west coast shuttle launch complex that they closed the day after they finished!

http://googleglobetrotting.com/info.php/mid/5784

Now known as the Commercial Launch Facility (CLF). SLC-6 has been modified to launch Minotaur commercial rockets.

Looks like SLC 2 was built on top of Complex 75 which had seven Thor missile pads.

Good find. Thanks!

Google says that all Mass. pictures were taken in 2001 except Cambridge which were taken in April 2004.

These 14" disappearing guns could fire a 1560 pound projectile 14 miles out into the Catalina Channel. However, full caliber firing practice was rare because of the damage caused by the firing concussions to near-by residences. Battery Osgood's gun was fired only 116 times and Battery Farley's fired 121 times.

Eh. I went there this weekend and didn't know that was there.

But what is it?

Based on the straight edges of the burned areas I'd guess that this is a controlled fire.

Planes and missiles on display:

C-130A Hercules
F-100D Super Sabre
F-4C Phantom II
F-16A Falcon
A-7D Corsair
RF-101C Voodoo
U-3A Blue Canoe
O-2A Skymaster
RF-84F Thunderflash
F-100F Super Sabre
RB-57A Canberra
F-84F Thunderstreak
T-33A Shooting Star
C-131D Samaritan
TF-102A Delta Dagger
F-106A Delta Dart
F-86A Sabre
B-26C Invader
HH-52A Seaguard...

I haven't been able to find the one in Hanza/Okinawa and the one in Keflavik. The last two are in Diego Garcia and Guam and Google Maps don't have any resolution for these islands.

What is this? How is it categorized?

Actually it was a HF-DF site. Used for direction finding. This site is still active. Used for intel work.

Excelent catch!

Great place to live but I'd hate to visit there.

Some speculate that this is evidence that some of these pictures wee taken via aerial photography rather than satellite photography. That would explain this and other shots that seem to be taken from quite close to the flying airplanes.

Oops. AR=Arkansas AR=Argentina. Wrong box...

Ok, I just printed this out and measured them as close as I can. The top two are the same length. The ratio of lengths of the top two subs to the bottom sub as I measured them is 0.65.

SSN = 360 feet long.
SSBN = 560 feet long

Ratio is 0.64.

That's an error of about 3.6 feet which is within the margin of error considering the resolution of these photos.

I still think this is 2 SSNs and an SSBN.

Hmmm, I'm not convinced. The both ends of the bottom one allign in a straight line. The bow shadow is the same size or a bit bigger than the other two. And the length of the bottom one is definitely not twice plus some margin longer than the top two.

I'm too enamoured of the wepons storage sites. The site in the thumbnail is there but as TexasAndroid says it is off to the right

LCAC hovercraft

You're right. The Mullard site says 5 miles SW of Cambridge which is almost exactly here.

I'm pretty sure that's a prison. Anyone know its name?

Can we get an English translation for this, please?

Lived there as a kid from '69 to '73.

That's it! I found a picture from the inside. See "More Info" link.

If you look closely you can see rings of waves radiating from the ship. It also doesn't have any wake so I think it is not moving.

These pictures are often commissioned by news agencies. Maybe there was a ship stranded or something and a news agency commissioned the pictures.

I checked lists of lightships and this doesn't seem to be one. They are much smaller anyway.

Cities along the gulf coast bid against each other and pay big bucks to have these ships sunk off their coasts. The sandy bottoms of the Gulf of Mexico along the Panhandle are not great fish breeding grounds. The sunken ships provide a breeding ground for fish that are then commercialy caught.

http://www.visitpensacola.com/oriskany/

The track's official web site lists their address as Berkeley. See the additional info link above.

Good article on Amboy Crater.

http://www.thesunrunner.com/Stories/AmboyCrater/amboycrater.html

Thanks! Here's a good shot of it:

http://www.hansajet.de/frames/mainsouvenirs.htm

"Irregular earthwork enclosure, alleged Roman fortification, or possibly a C11 short-lived motte and bailey castle. "

I'd list it as a building or create an archeological site category. Whatever you usually categorize a castle as.

Farmers place cattle feed in round metal fences that the cows can eat out of. The cattle scar the earth around the feed enclosures. The farmers move the enclosures around (I'm guessing to spread the manure and reduce the scarring in one place.)

Capacity 140,000

Wow, an interface with the real world! The matrix just shifted. Thanks. I was going to call the Greenville post office myself today.

Largest stadium seating in the Wold at 250,000 capacity.
http://www.worldstadiums.com/stadium_menu/stadium_list/100000.shtml

The stadium's name at University of Nebraska is Lincoln Memorial Stadium.

Picture of balloon:
http://www.evilshell.net/euro/Berlin/images/berlin3_jpg.jpg

Stadion Wojska Polskiego is the name of the stadium.
http://www.worldstadiums.com/stadium_pictures/europe/poland/mazowieckie/warszawa_polskiego.shtml

Legia Warszawa is the tennant (a team?)
...

Sluzewiec Racetrack

http://www.warsaw-life.com/warsaw/where_to_play/entertainment_details/11-Sluzewiec_Racetrack

I think there are four sets of images merging at the hotel. look at all the different perspectives in the four areas to the NE, SE, NW and SW. The buildings are all pointing in different directions. It is neat how seamless the merges are here.

Often locally called "Lakewood Amphitheater" as it was named until 1998.

Are you sure its a military camp? I'm not saying it isn't but military camps usually have scattered U-shaped earth berms sort of like fox-holes. These look like waste oil ponds one of which was burned off at some time.

Stadio Olimpico

I used to live in Pozzuoli just to the west. It is safe out in the crater. There are tours out into the crater where there are large holes in the floor with bubbling sulfurous mud. The heat coming up is so hot that paper held out over the vats ignite.

One disturbing thing the guides do is drop a big bolder from shoulder height. The vibrations in the ground make you want to run for "solid ground."

The whole area smells stongly of sulfur at many times of the...

This palace was used by the US military after the invasion of Europe as their HQ.

I don't think that's a barge. Perhaps some type of military cargo ship.

This one was already submitted as "The Kremlin."