Google Earth...WOW!!!

[Mike Baker]

I found Area 51  Also found myself in my boat. Just type in Rencontre East NL and you will see where I'm from  :blotto:

 

[241]

Does anyone know if you get better quality and/or more up to date images with the google earth that you subscribe to?

 

[SupersonicMax]

Cold Lake's image was taken during Maple Flag... That's why you see all those nice planes around... And the ramp is litterally full

Max

 

[navymich]

Now, if someone caught say some dudes out there spelling out "this sucks" with their bodies, then I'd be interested in seeing that

VonG, you must be getting old or something...I expected you to want to see some dudettes doing that. 

 

[Chaz]

Maybe it's cause i suck, but I can't find Borden on GE
The closest I got was Simcoe

 

[armywife/cadetmom]

IM looking at Borden now, its labelled as Angus..and it is out of date! There have been whole neighbourhoods removed since on the North Side, and most of if not all the Q's on the south side are gone.  Just find Barrie on it, follow 90 out..thats all i did.

 

[Neill McKay]

It's definitely not streaming, there's some major contruction that's been going on in Shearwater for a few months and it's not on the google map.

The "streaming" is data from the server to your computer.

 

[rmacqueen]

IM looking at Borden now, its labelled as Angus..and it is out of date! There have been whole neighbourhoods removed since on the North Side, and most of if not all the Q's on the south side are gone.  Just find Barrie on it, follow 90 out..thats all i did.

Have looked at a couple of different areas and the pictures are a minimum of 3-4 years old

 

[Franko]

Also, really neat, Qalat (in Zabol Province) in high-res....  http://maps.google.ca/?ie=UTF8&t=k&om=1&ll=32.108915,66.911513&spn=0.007961,0.013497

Recce By Death will like those, I'm sure.. Bring back memories of... several months ago.

Thanks for the memories....

 

[Signalman150]

After reading this thread, I downloaded Google Earth and went "touristing".  Did the usual stuff ("I can see my house from here"), and then got curious.  Within a few minutes I was looking at:

a) The MQ I lived in as a kid in Zweibrucken back in 1961; and

b) the apartment (or the building that replaced it) where I lived in Sardinia in 1963.

For the many that won't know, the RCAF had a detachment of 90 airmen in Sardinia (off the West coast of Italy) up until the 80s because each of the  fighter sqns rotated through there once a year for gunnery/bombing practice. There were no MQ's so we all lived in a "resort" area called the Poetto, in three-story walk-ups. Your neighbor was as likely to be an Italian civilian or a Luftwaffe officer, as another Canadian airman.

The fact that after 45 years I could still recognize these places from the air was heart-warming.  Perhaps the Alzheimer's hasn't advanced as far as I thought.

 

[BernDawg]

Actually the Cold Lake imagery was taken during the airshow of 04.  That's why there's cars parked on the grass between the runways and all the different planes are parked on the taxiway.  Hottest damned weekend of my life.

 

[Signalman150]

Berndawg,

Was that the year they opened the show with that civilian registered CF104 Starfighter?

 

[Mike Baker]

Look at 32 40 33.95 N 117 09 27.80 W. It is a U.S. Navy building shaped like a swastika 

 

[BernDawg]

Roger that Signalman150.  First time I had ever seen one in real life.  Never realized that they made such a banshee like howl.  Tres cool though.

 

[rmacqueen]

Look at 32 40 33.95 N 117 09 27.80 W. It is a U.S. Navy building shaped like a swastika 

Love San Diego.  The hotel I stayed at last time I was there is right across from Coronado at 32 43 34.59N 117 13 23.92W.  If you look just north of it there is a bunch of buildings with pink roofs...that is the Naval Recruit Depot, kinda fitting  ;D

 

[JVJA]

On GE do a search for "Davis Monthan AFB"  It's a USAF "Boneyard"  Very interesting stuff......

 

[brihard]

On GE do a search for "Davis Monthan AFB"  It's a USAF "Boneyard"  Very interesting stuff......

Wow. It's like porn, but on Goggle Earth.

Edit to add: Aw man... All those A-10s. I want to cry.

Anyone got any other boneyards with decent res?

 

[Trooper Hale]

RCD tank park count?

 

[Franko]

RCD tank park count?

Ouch......er.....quiet you.

Regards

 

[Trooper Hale]

lol, no offence meant of course. I've only respect your folk thereRBD. And also respect for the leo's sitting 100m from where i'm sitting, i'm staring at them right now, looking gorgeous they are