All sights in category 'Aircraft'

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.

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Boneyard, Tucson

Posted by James Turnbull, Thursday, 7th April 2005

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Wow – there are a LOT of planes in Pima Air & Space Museum. It looks like they’ve got at least 10 of each plane, all laid out in very neat rows. Also of note is the plane scrapheap – they should do an episode of Scrapheap Challenge there. (Via)

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Update: From the comments David points out these pictures aren’t actually from Pima Air & Space Museum (which looks like this).

This is actually the “boneyard” of the US military at Davis Monthan Air Force Base. It’s refered to as the world’s largest air force, as there are more planes parked here in various states of disrepair, destruction or stasis to out number any active air force in the world, including the Pima Air and Space is just next door but, while incredibly cool, does not have nearly as many airplanes. There are monthly tours available through the base’s boneyard.

and Yorkie points us to a collection of ground level shots.

Concorde

Posted by Alex Turnbull, Thursday, 7th April 2005

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Please note that some or all of the objects mentioned in this post are no longer visible on Google Earth or Google Maps.

This one shows you how long ago some of this images were taken. Here’s Concorde at JFK, presumably before April 2003. I’ve also beeen wondering if the people at Keyhole (Whom Google bought the technology from) had to Photoshop out any planes photographed in flight, as I can’t find any at all…

Updated: Turns out that there are loads of planes in flight!

Concorde