Star_world From Ireland, joined Jun 2001, 1234 posts, RR: 0 Reply 2, posted (5 years 11 months 1 week 2 days 4 hours ago) and read 3394 times:
Are you talking about the multiple instances of the aircraft? That happens all the time with Google Maps / Earth, it's due to how the images are taken and then stitched together. There is just one aircraft in reality. You can see the effects of this by the fact that one of the shadows doesn't have a corresponding aircraft to the right of it, this is because the next section is overlaid on top of where it would be.
Including the latitude and longitude gives the location away slightly FRA.
UnattendedBag From United States of America, joined Oct 2003, 2240 posts, RR: 1 Reply 3, posted (5 years 11 months 1 week 2 days 4 hours ago) and read 3357 times:
Quoting Star_world (Reply 2): one of the shadows doesn't have a corresponding aircraft to the right of it,
FlyDeltaJets87 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 4, posted (5 years 11 months 1 week 2 days 4 hours ago) and read 3339 times:
I think it's the way the satellite takes photos as it moves along in space. This has happened on multiple occurences. You can see an AirTran 717 several times taking off from MCO.
On a somewhat related note, Google Earth also managed to catch an in-flight refueling of a C-5 somewhere out west. My friend showed it to me several months ago but I couldn't find it now if I tried. I don't remember where it was.
Make that two in that case - the three highlighted shadows / aircraft images don't correspond with each other, it's the one closer. ie: the center shadow corresponds to the left "aircraft". Look at the buildings and you'll clearly see that the sun isn't low enough for what you highlight to be true.
But it's a pretty academic question, since like I said there's only one of them in the first place!
N231YE From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 7, posted (5 years 11 months 1 week 2 days 4 hours ago) and read 3292 times:
Not on this photo, but sometimes Google Earth doesn't do a good job at overlapping images (satellite imagery on Google Earth isn't taken at the same time, some images are 1994-vintage)
Smokescreen From Canada, joined Jul 2005, 230 posts, RR: 0 Reply 9, posted (5 years 11 months 1 week 2 days 4 hours ago) and read 3240 times:
Quoting Smokeyrosco (Reply 8): Quoting FlyDeltaJets87 (Reply 4):
Google Earth also managed to catch an in-flight refueling of a C-5 somewhere out west.
That is awesome! And re. the OP, that is definitely the same plane. There have been a couple of other threads about this where it was discussed in detail.
Rivet42 From United Kingdom, joined Aug 2005, 817 posts, RR: 1 Reply 11, posted (5 years 11 months 1 week 2 days 4 hours ago) and read 3207 times:
If you imagine the satellite camera moving across the sky, taking overlapping pictures continuously as it moves across the earth's surface, anything that happens to be moving more or less in the same direction at a similar speed will be photographed several times. However, this is only really likely with aircraft around airports, because they are very low (i.e. close to the focal point of the camera lens), and moving relatively slowly. At altitude, aircraft would be moving too fast, and be too far away from the focal point (the earth's surface) to be in focus.
(edit) - And yes, it is Frankfurt - I posted this particular image on A.net a few months ago!
Rwy04LGA From United States of America, joined Jul 2005, 2144 posts, RR: 7 Reply 12, posted (5 years 11 months 1 week 2 days 3 hours ago) and read 3045 times:
Quoting Smokeyrosco (Reply 8): Quoting FlyDeltaJets87 (Reply 4):
Google Earth also managed to catch an in-flight refueling of a C-5 somewhere out west.
Rivet42 From United Kingdom, joined Aug 2005, 817 posts, RR: 1 Reply 14, posted (5 years 11 months 1 week 1 day 15 hours ago) and read 2491 times:
Quoting Rwy04LGA (Reply 12): How the hell do you people find this stuff??
Ha, ha, you might well ask! As it happens, I was just having a look at certain airports, such as FRA, when I noticed the LH jumbo taking off. It was prompted by another posting here of a KE 747 on finals for an airport in the US, but I can't recall which one. I don't think it's that unusual for aviation enthusiasts to be googling airports, but that's just my opinion..
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