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"Pedicab" keeps the union off your back.

Welcome to VGT! Super first compilation. We all look forward to seeing more.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=249js7SOFe8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2bv46uams4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODe94i0iLno&feature=related

Also a young kid looking up at the plane from the third hut from the upper right.

This is a great one! There's a person visible in the third hut on the bottom left looking up at the plane snapping the picture.

It shows up still floating in a single frame as you zoom in on Live Local:
http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=39.049827~-76.428811&style=h&lvl=18&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&

Very cool find!

It's called central pivot irrigation. Farmers irrigate their plots with sprinklers on wheels that pivot around the central water source.

This particular C-47 is being restored after being severely damaged in a ground loop. Here is the accient report:
The DC-3 was returning from an air show and the crew were on a visual approach to Titusville runway 27. The F/O was flying the airplane and the weather was VMC with winds reported by the tower of 250 degrees at 16 knots. The approach was stabilized, and upon touchdown the airplane bounced about three feet into the air according to an eyewitness. A decision was made by the...

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1148065/M/

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1201408/M/

Some neat simulation from the History Channel showing Old Crow's most notorious dogfight:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt8G3vxLmKE&feature=related

Looks like one of the last vestiges of the Flying Tiger Restoration Museum that was obliterated by hurricane Charley. The entire operation has been moved up to Douglas, Georgia. Many of the classic birds seen in the Nearby maps are flyable exhibits of the museum, including the MiG-21, Fouga Magister, S2 Tracker and the F-104 Starfighter.

Here is a more info link:
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Must be something in the air this week. I went back to an airport I've been over a dozen times. I must have approached from a different direction this time, opening a slew of uncharted classic aircraft. Go figure.

Wow, this place has been a happy hunting ground for you. Is there new imagery available, or has this one and the Lockheed Martin F-35 Rene73 just posted been overlooked all this time?

Great posts, I'm in awe! Although, be sure your link has the same view as your thumbnail.

Here it is again in this map:
http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/41051/

Thanks to jbottero for the link:
http://www.grahametaylor.com/gallery/americasept02/images/America_Sept_2002_0039.JPG

The boat is at about 7:00.

Wow! Great haul today!

Interesting how they have gone in an uncovered virtually every small boat and ship in the harbor by hand, but are keeping the harbor itself in low resolution. Odd.

Looks like some creative editing covering the warships on the edges of the canal.

I'm sorry to say the Blue Angel pilot featured in this footage was killed on April, 21 2007 during an airshow crash, where, ironically, he is to believed to have lost consciousness during a high-g maneuver.

For those who thought the air component of the Gulf War was a cake walk, check out this video of a flight of F-16s being targeted by dozens of surface to air missiles. The number 4 plane in the flight was actually shot down and the pilot captured. Cinch up your seat belts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5PNhNEW-os&feature=related

Doesn't it get your adrenaline going when you come across so many cool planes in one spot?

Two more F-16s are trailing at 5:00 for the tanker (About 4 inches back).

Wow! Good ID.

Wow! Super find!!

Take a gander at this hilarious footage of a newsman going on a Blue Angel media flight:
http://alt.coxnewsweb.com/ajc/swf/blueangels/blueangels.swf

There's a great image in BEV of a missile sub with its bays open.

Nice find. Welcome to VGT!

The two follow on helicopters are the same as each other, but not the same as this one. The one pictured in the two attachments has a tail rotor, while this one has an air jet. I think the one in your thumbnail is an
MD 600N http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0697444/M/

Welcome to VGT!

That's gotta be one of the better ones! Nice catch.

This is actually a "U" control plane. The pilot pivots in the center with a handle and strings that connect to the model's elevator. The rudder is glued in a permanent left turn.

Here are a soldier's personal pics of FOB Tiger and Al Qaim: http://www.flickr.com/photos/15873370@N04/1890898905/in/photostream/

Here are some great photos o the MiG Yard:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/illogicnet/sets/72157594390046754/

Super catch!! Your thumbnail doesn't convey just how large the image is.

Nice ID!

Cool post! How'd you come across it?

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-trash26oct26,1,6866692.story?coll=la-headlines-world

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20071025/wl_time/aniraqiparadeagainstalqaeda;_ylt=Av5S5FFNDqbMx4BGRohkegUUewgF

Great view of her in BEV

Now in BEV

Nice find!!! One in a million.

Very cool find!

I can't tell if the back podium is the one pictured in the article you attached, or has another VIP sitting at it presiding over the ceremony. I wonder if we can learn the date of the flyover?

Here's a YouTube clip of an SA-2 site being attacked by a British Tornado during the initial invasion of Iraq:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0NWNvyDyb4

Very cool find! I've checked helipads at hospitals around the globe looking for this very scene and haven't come close.

No conspiracy or altered images here. Rocky Flats was shut down and decommissioned: http://prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=155994

Now in BEV

Nice ID.

Welcome to VGT! Be sure to check the INFO link for duplicate maps beore you post. Many of the "bigger" event maps have already been posted.

Bad news from this year's Reno Air Races: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070915/ap_on_re_us/air_races_crash_9;_ylt=AhMtLgwEWJnt51YxEJUdspEE1vAI

Who ever designed this sleek fire trainer must have taken their inspiration from the toaster-like M/S Kalakala:
http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/38055/

Here is a FLICKR photo of just such an assault course being put into use:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/omegaairsoft/1350798639/in/photostream/

Thanks for the correct ID, Parabellum.

Thanks, kjfitz. Believe it or not, nearly every inflight plane was caught by accident, rather than a deliberate search for planes in flight.

Go Cougs!

Thanks, kjfitz. Once again, I think you nailed it!

Here's another pretty special craft plying the waters off Little Creek worth keeping an eye out for: http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogman1971/1251474469/

Welcome to VGT!

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0425951/M/

Here is another futuristic naval vessel to look out for in the not too distant future:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogman1971/1184114825/in/photostream/

Here is a FLICKR photo of a US soldier in front of a similar pool:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogman1971/1196290450/in/photostream/

Here's a nice FLICKR shot of some Predators in Iraq:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/asmig/1129083216/in/set-72157601103741161/

In my opinion, similar to a plane captured in various stages of landing, this qualifies as its own map. The flag being at half mast has added significance that the prior map didn't have.

Thanks Kjitz! Your observations sent me in search of some Piaggio-like pusher prototypes and I came up with the Avtek 400.

Here is the official website:
http://www.avtekair.com/

Still no ID yet for this mystery plane.

Nice find. I think the closest fuselage and wing is a disassembled Starship.

There are so many views with helicopters in flight over OLF Spencer, I finally gave up trying to post all of them.

I just attached a couple of photos of Lt. Gen Robbins posing in front of the Jadina IV with seven kills and then again after his 22nd kill. The photo contribution was provided to VGT by a user who was instrumental in the construction and installation of the Jadina V model in its current location.

Here is a Flickr photo-set of a few planes on static display in the Green Zone. I think they are the same planes we see here; however, their arrangement is different than in the satellite shot. If they aren't the same planes, it means they could be a cool find for someone interested in tracking them down.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/10150975@N03/1095835067/

A friend of mine told me of an Italian soldier who came across a similar bunch of discarded fighters in Mogadishu, Somalia when stationed there. Unfortunately, the soldier made the fatal mistake of pulling the ejection handle while sitting in one of the old fighters.

Here is a flickr photo-set of a discarded Aero Vodochody L-39 Albatross in Iraq:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/asmig/sets/72157601370411560/

I think you are right, it's a scale model of the B-2. This plane in the Northrop Grumman parking lot; however, I think is an X-47B:
http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/25904/

Sadly, "Mickey The Moocher" one of only two flying Lancasters is no longer visible after the latest Google update :(

Lucky dog. It's been my experience that the best maps find you rather than you finding them.

Super find! I bet if you follow his flight path you will find his wingman.

I have the same plane from a different angle with what at the time I thought was a BLU-82 Daisy Cutter Bomb on a skid waiting to be loaded.
http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/23293/
However, your map leads me to believe what I mistook for a Daisy Cutter is instead a turbo-prop engine awaiting the crane for installation.

I'm afraid the "squirmy dirt" emitted by a smokestack doesn't fit the scavenger hunt category of a large cloud of dust being kicked up.

The fencing and building placement lead me to believe this might be a radome.

I think these are separate aircraft landing simultaneously, one on Toulouse-Bagnac's runway 32 L and the other assigned to 32 R.

Chalk up another one for Mic1us! I've been searching for just such a scene since I joined VGT years ago, that and a fire being actively fought, and you've managed to find both in the span of a month! Great work.

On a side note, Right Whales got their name from whalers who preferred the oils and ease of hunting to these whales over others, calling them the "right" whales to go after.

Wow, super sleuthing! How did you learn about the accident?

The quote's from Dumb and Dumber, not Dumb and Dumberer

Favorite exchange from the movie.

Woman: "I understand you raise dogs for a living?"
Jeff Daniels: "Yes"
Woman: "Any unusual breeding?"
Jeff Daniels: "No, mainly just doggy-style."

Cool find. Looks like the area is littered with other boats that made the same mistake. In some of the other views you can see the sailboat still afloat, mored to sandbar during higher tide. And then, evidently the tide went out, capturing the boat in the muck, and then returned, capturing the unsuspecting yacht and filling it with water.

From the Pacific Air Museum Website:
North American B-25J Mitchell USAAF s/n 44-31504/N9753Z which was delivered on 14 June 1945. With the end of the war near, the aircraft went into storage but was overhauled as a TB-25J in 1951. The Royal Canadian Air Force acquired the machine and operated it as RCAF 5218 at the Advanced Flying School, Saskatoon. The RCAF disposed of the aircraft in February 1962.
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The Mitchell, along with N9754Z, gravitated to...

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1215961/M/

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1139137/M/

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1000781/M/

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0942670/M/

This PBY is now featured in an air museum in Arizona:
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0993262/M/

The entire lot of A-26Cs at Red Deer have now been retired and are looking for good homes:
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0796870/M/

Welcome to VGT!

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1157524/L/

Cool find! Looks like runners at first and second and batter at the plate.

Once again, thanks for the great research!!