Comments on: Haneda Airport, Tokyo

By: sebb

sebb — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 23:09:05 +0000

Seems the view has changed and th eplane is not there anymore. But another high res view from an approaching plane can be found a few meters in the north:
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you can even read the markings on the planes wing.

By: Gary Petersen

Gary Petersen — Sun, 21 Aug 2005 04:03:30 +0000

Here’s another. This one, at Boston’s Logan International Airport, actually shows three planes, all on final to the same runway.

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Scroll down and to the right and you’ll see two more planes.

By: Gary Petersen

Gary Petersen — Sun, 21 Aug 2005 03:52:52 +0000

Isn’t that odd? I wonder if the plane approaching the runway isn’t higher up, as it doesn’t look all that well aligned with the runway centerline. It can’t be all that high up, though, as its shadow is pretty darn close to it. Weird.

By: PJ

PJ — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 22:24:22 +0000

the link that Gary Petersen posted scares me a little ( Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth ) you see the plane coming in on approach but if you look ahead just a bit you can see a plane sitting on the runway directly in front of the landing plane.

By: Temptationx

Temptationx — Sat, 06 Aug 2005 03:18:22 +0000

This long tunnel is “Tokyo Bay Aqualine”.
http://www.nccnet.co.jp/english/introduction/tokyobay.html

One of the two artificial island is a ventilation system tower.
http://www.googlesightseeing.com/2005/06/28/tokyo-bay-offshore-platform/
[penta-ocean.co.jp/english/works/work_data02_08.html][1]

[1]: http://www.penta-ocean.co.jp/english/works/work_data02_08.html

The other (kisarazu artifitial island) is called “Umihotaru”.

By: Freshmaker

Freshmaker — Fri, 05 Aug 2005 07:15:12 +0000

Thats really interesting that google earth has different maps than those on the internet. I suppose google earth’s images are older.

By: Jan Koubek

Jan Koubek — Fri, 05 Aug 2005 06:43:23 +0000

My guess is, that it’s some kind of ventilation system, maybe even emergency exit. There can be control centre together with the ventilation…

By: Insano

Insano — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 21:24:22 +0000

Anyone else notice this extremely long tunnel that goes under the water near the airport?

This odd building sits in the middle of it, in the water that is. Any ideas what it is?

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By: gIMpSTa

gIMpSTa — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 20:17:48 +0000

the Haneda Airport link in this post is fragged.

By: me

me — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 18:12:53 +0000

the aiirport access is wicked cool — it looks like you drive into a tunnel, and surface in the middle of the airport. that is a neat idea.