Aircraft

More Planes Refueling in Flight

Over at the Google Earth Community they've found a fantastic sight - not one, but two planes about to be refuelled mid-flight over the California desert. From their measurements, these appear to be F-16 fighter jets, moving in (or perhaps…

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Monday, 28th April 2008

Ville de Bordeaux

Ville de Bordeaux is a carrier vessel that has been specially designed to transport various pieces of the Airbus A380 around the globe. Given that the A380 is the largest passenger airliner in the world, it's no surprise that the…

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Monday, 14th April 2008

Plane Convoy

A strange procession is moving through the streets of Los Reyes Acozac in Mexico - the fuselages of not one, but two aircraft! As they're roughly 100 feet in length, the giant plane bodies could be for Boeing 737s -…

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Wednesday, 20th February 2008

Planes in formation

In the Saratoga Passage, Washington, there appear to be four planes flying in very close formation. Although it could just be an image overlay problem (there appears to be a seam between them) the four 'motion ghosts' are all in…

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Thursday, 14th February 2008

The Red Arrows

Founded in 1964, the Red Arrows is the common name for the Aerobatic Team of the Royal Air Force. The team consists of nine BAE Hawk aircraft, with a tenth always carried to events as a backup. The ten craft…

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Tuesday, 12th February 2008

Northrop YF-23

Continuing the thread of unique plane finds is this sighting of a Northrop YF-23 . Specifically, this aircraft is YF-23 model PAV-2, which was nicknamed "Gray Ghost". We know for a fact that it's this model as only two were…

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Wednesday, 30th January 2008

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