Aircraft

Parachute In Flight

As Google Earth is getting higher and higher resolution images, there's much more to see in flight that the odd aeroplane, and today we can see a skydiver in flight over a French drop-zone. It looks like the skydiver is…

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Tuesday, 6th March 2007

Missile attack on Utah

I awoke this morning to find my email inbox bursting with messages along the lines of "OMFG! On Digg there's a Google Map showing a CRUISE MISSILE in flight!!!!!!!!!one". And it was true! While I was asleep over 2500 people…

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Sunday, 4th March 2007

Australia Day Flyover

The super-high-resolution aerial images of Sydney from the recent Australia Day flyover have this morning been added to Google Maps.1 Google even did some sightseeing of their own in the email announcement when they included links to Queenscliff Bay, Shark…

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Tuesday, 27th February 2007

World’s Largest Paper Planes

Well, unfortunately the world's largest real paper planes aren't usually kept outside, so today we'll have to make do with sculptures of extremely large paper planes. in Mukilteo, Washington, Dillion Works (who specialise in creating large 3D architectural elements), claim…

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Monday, 26th February 2007

Crash Landing

Nestled within the trees of this suburban park is a crashed plane, that's been there since 1985! The story goes that the pilot ran out of fuel over the city of Sao Jose dos Campos and was forced to land…

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Sunday, 18th February 2007

Mystery Plane Crash

Deep in the Mojave desert, there's some sort of aircraft which looks as if it crashed and was left to rot. So how did it come to be here? There's a military airfield to the east, Camp Wilson, so it's…

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Friday, 26th January 2007

Welcome to Google Sightseeing!

Google Sightseeing takes you on a tour of the world as seen from satellite or street views using Google Maps. Our team of authors present weird and wonderful sights as suggested by readers.

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