Today we're looking at E-3 Sentry AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control System) planes - they're really just Boeing 707s with a 9.1m diameter rotating radar strapped onto the back, which provides airborne surveillance and battle management. Starting in Britain there's…

Santa Pod is Europe's first permanent drag racing venue, and this aerial photo was taken on a race day. This site us a disused WW2 American Air base once called RAF Podington and it was here that Sammy Miller set…

Staring up from what looks like a neon sign graveyard in Las Vegas is this giant Pirate Skull. Aaaar! I'm guessing this is a disused prop from Treasure Island Casino, where they have a regular pirate show out the front.…

Taking its name from the nearby city of Dohuk, also spelled Dahuk, Dohuk Dam supplies the city with drinking water and has a 45m wide Kurdistan flag painted onto the Dam. Top to bottom the flag is red, white and…

Here's a plane in flight, here's another one, and another. Ah, there's hundreds of them - Boring! Now, here's a School Bus In Flight. That's much more interesting! This is actually the City Museum in St. Louis. Built in an…

The other day, Windows Live Local added high-resolution aerials of Edinburgh, and Alex and I promptly wasted hours and hours finding everything there was to see in our home city and arguing about the exact date the photos were taken.…