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…

Here's the longest stone arch bridge in the world, the Rockville Bridge in Pennsylvania (Wikipedia page). It was opened in 1902 and (as you can clearly see on the linked Google map) carries heavy railroad traffic to this day. There's…

Thanks to the various Google Maps updates of imagery in Germany we can now get a good look at Hitler's "Eagle's Nest" or Kehlsteinhaus as it is properly known. The Eagle's Nest was part of the Berghof complex in the…

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…

Fantastic shadow being cast from the sign on top of the Main Street Station Hotel and Casino and Brewery in Las Vegas. There's actually two signs, which means we can see it backwards too. Nice. Useless fact about this hotel?…

Invasion of the fat planes! There's a really fat green plane at Heathrow (which looks a little like Thunderbird 2)... And at Hong Kong International, there's some sort of fat pink alien spacecraft! (Or these might be fire training aircraft…