Comments on: Sea Plane

By: nat

nat — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 09:10:11 +0000

it certainly is lake spenard… and how amazing it is to see via satellite. slight contrast to how i saw it early march 2005…Floatplanes and
Floatplane

By: crazy horse

crazy horse — Thu, 26 May 2005 01:20:17 +0000

Bill Shirley is correct. Brightly coloured aircraft , “bushplanes” are typical of those flying over the vast remoteness of northern Canada and Alaska. The colour assists search and rescue aircrew spot downed aircraft in heavy timber, snow or otherwise. Nice spot Paulio

By: reion

reion — Wed, 25 May 2005 10:35:48 +0000

wow … but this isn’t straight to the ground - it makes me a bit dizzy

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 24 May 2005 22:42:37 +0000

True, it is Alaska after all

By: Michael Hanscom

Michael Hanscom — Tue, 24 May 2005 22:28:54 +0000

That would be Lake Spenard, which, joined together with Lake Hood, makes up the single busiest seaplane airport in the world. I used to live just a Placemark: wee bit north / Google Earth of where you pointed to.

I also have a Quicktime VR movie taken just a Placemark: little further along the shoreline / Google Earth last summer during a visit (just be patient, my webserver isn’t the speediest in the world) if you’d like a more down-to-earth look.

By: Bill Shirley

Bill Shirley — Tue, 24 May 2005 22:11:44 +0000

Brightly Colored:

I’m thinking that if you go down in a snow storm - or just in the snow - you want to be visible!

By: Sionide

Sionide — Tue, 24 May 2005 21:36:49 +0000

go south a bit and theres another airport with a plane on the run way