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.
Heading down the shops you might walk, maybe cycle or probably take the car. There’s not many people who do the weekly errands in a MiG-21 fighter.
Sadly it turns out that this plane is always in the car park on permanent display. There’s ground level pictures on Airliners.net including one of the plane back in 2003, just after it fell of its pedestal and crushed a parked VW Golf.
Wikipedia: MiG-21
Thanks: Mikky
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Mirage at school :
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Coventry University have a Harrier, but I haven’t seen it whilst skating there. It’s probably indoors =[
Damn I thought it was on a low bombing run over the produce section. Clean up on aisle twelve
MiG-15 at antique store in Forney, TX:
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ground level shot:
http://www.deridderantiques.com/images/plane002.jpg
Another MIG parked at a Chevy dealership in Federal Way WA:
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Where do they get these things? “Throw in the MiG, and we’ve got a deal!” =)
There’s one a few miles from where i live. Don’t know if it’s a Harrier or MIG though.
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Hi Eazy - it’s a Mig-21
there’s an ilyushin (?) on a roof in leipzig, germany:
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@ Jonas
wow, cool find! check in out in the Birds Eye view.
http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTCP&cp=sjnc65j0th2f&style=b&lvl=2&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=10797074&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&encType=1
It appears to be a Ilyushin II 18-D like the one seen here
http://www.airliners.net/photo/Interflug/Ilyushin-Il-18D/1346452&tbl=photo_info&photo_nr=5&prev_id=1346453&next_id=1346303
In the BirdsEye you can seen that the airline is what was once Interflug. The former state airline of East Germany. Check out the NY Times article on the wikipage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interflug