Google Sightseeing takes you on tour of the world as seen from satellite, using the free Google Earth program, or Google Maps in your web browser. Each weekday your guides James and Alex present new weird and wonderful sights as suggested by readers.
Invasion of the fat planes! There’s a really fat green plane at Heathrow (which looks a little like Thunderbird 2)…
And at Hong Kong International, there’s some sort of fat pink alien spacecraft!
(Or these might be fire training aircraft of course…)
Update: from the comments, here’s a lime-green fatplane, and a white one which has some mysterious Dutch writing next to it…
Thanks to Mako, foo and Marco.
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I am fairly sure the first one is an L1011 fire training facility.
maybe it’s a missile supported by china mainland.
They’re not fat, you guys. They’re just big-boned.
WHAT is that thing just down from the green monster at heathrow? Looks like they are giving the aircraft painters LSD
nightlurker: you mean this crazy thing right!
Eeeyuch! Nasty all right
haha you are all wrong the green plane is a boeing 727 which yes is used for fire training, the white plane is (wait for it) a 737 now this plane is actually used for anti terroist training, hostage, bombscare, and also used for evacuation training, the red small thing is actually called the x55 it was used by the americans to test their 1st rocket engine.
i am a true god in the aviation world all yee who try to challange my power will be classed as unworthy…..
I don’t think these are fat planes as such, just normal planes with the ends of their wings removed.
Anyone notice the landing 747 on runway 18 right at Amsterdam appears to be materialising just before landing. When did Boeing supply cloaking devices for their 747’s? I think we should be told.
I’m sorry I missed out on this topic last year! I missed minutes of fun!
There’s an old DC8 at Zurich airport which is being used as fire training plane:
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth