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Blasphemystic From United States, joined Feb 2005, 213 posts, RR: 0
Posted (3 years 3 months 2 weeks 7 hours ago) and read 9849 times:

There are actually 3 planes already on this runway, and it looks like one is about to touch down on the same one.
(if you were to go to google earth and zoom out a bit, you can see what im talking about)

Londons Heathrow.

[Edited 2006-03-24 10:02:06]

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Macc From Austria, joined Nov 2004, 805 posts, RR: 3
Reply 1, posted (3 years 3 months 2 weeks 6 hours ago) and read 9819 times:

looks like three images of the same scenario shot within a couple of seconds layed over each other.

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Blasphemystic From United States, joined Feb 2005, 213 posts, RR: 0
Reply 2, posted (3 years 3 months 2 weeks 6 hours ago) and read 9787 times:

Quoting Macc (Reply 1):

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BBJII From United Kingdom, joined Jul 2005, 850 posts, RR: 6
Reply 3, posted (3 years 3 months 2 weeks 6 hours ago) and read 9765 times:

Image Overlay??

Short finals and lined up aircraft,

Why would the aircraft be on the threshold at touchdown?

Look at the shadows...thats hard to do on an overlay.

Short finals and mid-runway aircraft YES, it's and overlay.

If you look carefully you can see the join in the picture.

I have done this a few times with Google Earth.

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PIA777 From United States, joined Dec 2003, 1687 posts, RR: 7
Reply 4, posted (3 years 3 months 2 weeks 6 hours ago) and read 9756 times:

I noticed the same thing when I did google earth for LHR. Took me about
5 minutes of staring at the picture to figure it out.

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Oly720man From United Kingdom, joined May 2004, 4542 posts, RR: 10
Reply 5, posted (3 years 3 months 2 weeks 6 hours ago) and read 9713 times:

You can see the same at other airports like DFW and ATL with planes departing. It's just that the plane must be going at about the same speed as the satellite that's taking the photos so it appears in more than one picture.

Has anyone found half a plane anywhere because it's right on the edge of one photo, but not the next??

[Edited 2006-03-24 11:01:48]

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StarGoldLHR From Heard and McDonald Islands, joined Feb 2004, 1529 posts, RR: 1
Reply 6, posted (3 years 3 months 2 weeks 5 hours ago) and read 9572 times:

Ive found a railway line that dissapears into trees, but a few pixels to the left another railway line emerges from a different bunch of trees and continues... The image wasnt quite lined up

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Zeke From Hong Kong SAR, PRC, joined Dec 2006, 4359 posts, RR: 60
Reply 7, posted (3 years 3 months 2 weeks 5 hours ago) and read 9563 times:

The answer is that in the UK you can be cleared to land behind aircraft while the aircraft infront is still on the runway.

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Dazeflight From Germany, joined Jun 1999, 416 posts, RR: 3
Reply 8, posted (3 years 3 months 2 weeks 4 hours ago) and read 9467 times:

Quoting Zeke (Reply 7):
The answer is that in the UK you can be cleared to land behind aircraft while the aircraft infront is still on the runway.

If that was supposed to be serious: The clearance between those 3 planes is shorter than ANY safety margin. So, while you might be right, this definitely does not apply to the icture in question.

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TupolevTu154 From United Kingdom (England), joined Aug 2004, 1614 posts, RR: 35
Reply 9, posted (3 years 3 months 1 week 6 days 21 hours ago) and read 9071 times:

If you look closely, they're all AF 320's. And there is clearly a join of frames between the threshold of 09L and the first runway marker.

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A3204eva From United Kingdom (England), joined Feb 2004, 1060 posts, RR: 18
Reply 10, posted (3 years 3 months 1 week 6 days 17 hours ago) and read 8148 times:

Quoting Zeke (Reply 7):
The answer is that in the UK you can be cleared to land behind aircraft while the aircraft infront is still on the runway.

Only if he was VFR or at least doing a visual approach. If he wasn't then the use of "cleared to land one after" cannot be used.

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Tjc2 From United Kingdom (England), joined Feb 2006, 140 posts, RR: 0
Reply 11, posted (3 years 3 months 1 week 6 days 16 hours ago) and read 7858 times:

Quoting Dazeflight (Reply 8):
Quoting Zeke (Reply 7):
The answer is that in the UK you can be cleared to land behind aircraft while the aircraft infront is still on the runway.

If that was supposed to be serious: The clearance between those 3 planes is shorter than ANY safety margin. So, while you might be right, this definitely does not apply to the icture in question.

Proving once again that the german's don't have a sense of humour!

Or is this clearance issue real? I think it is a picture overlay problem then, they wouldn't be allowed to get this close.

[Edited 2006-03-25 00:34:49]

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Gunsontheroof From United States, joined Jan 2006, 2958 posts, RR: 15
Reply 12, posted (3 years 3 months 1 week 6 days 15 hours ago) and read 6658 times:

Quoting Oly720man (Reply 5):
It's just that the plane must be going at about the same speed as the satellite that's taking the photos so it appears in more than one picture.

Don't satellites travel at speeds upwards of 10,000km/hr?

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AviationAddict From United States, joined Feb 2006, 503 posts, RR: 1
Reply 13, posted (3 years 3 months 1 week 6 days 14 hours ago) and read 5957 times:

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Quoting Gunsontheroof (Reply 12):
Don't satellites travel at speeds upwards of 10,000km/hr?

Their flight path is much longer though, so a satellite that has slowed down enough to be able to capture clear photos could in theory be insync with an aircraft miles below, even if the satellite is traveling much faster.

Boeing727flyer From United States, joined Feb 2005, 147 posts, RR: 0
Reply 14, posted (3 years 3 months 1 week 6 days 11 hours ago) and read 4551 times:

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BHMBAGLOCK From United States, joined Jul 2005, 2693 posts, RR: 12
Reply 15, posted (3 years 3 months 1 week 6 days 10 hours ago) and read 4154 times:

Quoting AviationAddict (Reply 13):
Quoting Gunsontheroof (Reply 12):
Don't satellites travel at speeds upwards of 10,000km/hr?

Their flight path is much longer though, so a satellite that has slowed down enough to be able to capture clear photos could in theory be insync with an aircraft miles below, even if the satellite is traveling much faster.

Also, a lot of the images used are shot from aircraft not satellites.

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SapphireLHR From United Kingdom, joined Mar 2006, 103 posts, RR: 0
Reply 16, posted (3 years 3 months 1 week 6 days 8 hours ago) and read 3530 times:

The answer is clear that there are three images taken at timed intervals so you see the same aircarft at three different stages of the landing process. Sometimes the line of images are taken on different days at different times hence some are brighter than others even though next to each other. Also same reason that my car is shown in the drive way at home and also at work parked in the parking space in the car park at Eastside staff car park...spooky!!!

ETFokker50 From Netherlands, joined Feb 2006, 91 posts, RR: 0
Reply 17, posted (3 years 3 months 1 week 6 days 7 hours ago) and read 2968 times:

Satellites can be in what is called geosychronous orbit, meaning they are at a set distance above the earth and therefore rotate at the same speed as the earth does about it axis. Therefore, a sattelite seems to 'hover' in one spot, and can take picture like this. I'm no rocket scientist crackup

, but it works something like that.

NEMA From United Kingdom, joined Feb 2006, 488 posts, RR: 0
Reply 18, posted (3 years 3 months 1 week 6 days 6 hours ago) and read 2758 times:

Interesting, any idea how long ago this image was taken. No M25 road works near the airport which lasted for months in prep for terminal 5.
From the images of my house near Nottingham I guess they are about 2 years ago.

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BHMBAGLOCK From United States, joined Jul 2005, 2693 posts, RR: 12
Reply 19, posted (3 years 3 months 1 week 6 days ago) and read 2573 times:

Quoting ETFokker50 (Reply 17):
Satellites can be in what is called geosychronous orbit, meaning they are at a set distance above the earth and therefore rotate at the same speed as the earth does about it axis. Therefore, a sattelite seems to 'hover' in one spot, and can take picture like this. I'm no rocket scientist

LEO is used for photo surveillance for two reasons. First, geosynch does put one in an orbit apparently hovering over one spot - on the equator. Most areas of interest are far from the equator and it's also too expensive to build and launch a satellite to observe a single small area.

Second, the resolution possible from this distance is much lower than the resolution possible from LEO.

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