Google Earth and WW2 Aircraft wrecks
 

I've been struck by a thought which doubtless has occurred to everyone who uses TOCH, and it concerns Google Earth. As some rather remote bits of the world are being put up at resolutions in the sub metre range, are members of this forum spotting pieces of Luftwaffe or other wartime airframes (eg on the Kola Peninsula)?

The company of which I am a director put up the survey of Cambridge on Google Earth which accidentally caught the BoB memorial Flight Lancaster trundling by below, but that is another matter!

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Chris Going

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HI yes ive seen this too, amazing were the lancs photo from the earth.
good idea.but its only very small. one has too be very finer imprintment if you want to se some objects up close.not all are great , maybe nice idea only if there was one for the oceans, what a catch that would be,
gary.

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Time to try and spot that bellied Tirpitz raid Lancaster I guess! ;)

Dave

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After re-reading a book I have on the Ploesti raid, it was interesting looking over the refinery area. On Google Maps, look at Rhein-Main and spot the 3 Lufthansa 747's in a fly-over.

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Chris,
Nice pictures, but do you think it might be three pictures of the same aircraft? All three pilots plus the ground controllers would have gone to jail for allowing three passenger aircraft that close togetter at that height over a populated area.

Regards,

Bruce

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Good point. I never thought of framing sequence. I don't know the technology of how Google captures them. Many other aerials of airports I have viewed with aircraft in a pattern have never exhibited that.

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Bruce -multiple aircraft in mosaics are usually the same plane and having looked at the planes in question I am sure you are right about them.

You can get the same effect when your mosaic includes freeways and motorways -and there's the same lorry twice. On a silly note when I was a school kid our school photos were taken with a slowly panning camera and it was rumoured someone had dashed from one end of a row to the other to appear twice -but I think that's apocryphal.

Mosaics are wierd things to work on, what with using only the central third of every image to eliminate building lean and so on.

I've suddenly thought -the Lady be Good in in open store in North Africa somewhere. It might show up...


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ChrisG

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I searched for the Lady be Good....couldn't find it....does anybody have the correct spot?

cheers,

John

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385 miles due south of Tobruk, according to book The LADY BE GOOD

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According some internet site the Libyan Gvt recovered the wreck in the 1990's and there is nothing left....anybody know if that is true?

cheers,

John

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HI.john,its not there. it was moved to the USA around 1960.ive Googled it see if im right.
gary.last post.

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HI> yes.
gary

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I viewed some of the debris from the aircraft on display at the USAF museum at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio back in the early 1990's. Mostly of these pieces were ones that the USAF wanted to see how well it endured a hot, arid environment, like an engine and a landing gear strut. But the bulk of the airframe was reportedly taken by the Libyan government and is somewhere in their possession.

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The majority of the remains are held in a compound in Libya, they were removed from the crash site to prevent further vandalism etc.

Dave

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It is correct that the LBG has been removed from its crashsite in 1994. There are some pieces left at the original place but they are too small to be detected on GoogleEARTH.
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To the same subject I may address to the forum members at this occassion:


LBG-Museum; may I ask everybody for a comment, suggestion or whatever to an eventual project to display the LBG as this famous plane would deserve it?

http://www.afrika-korps.de/forum/vie...hp?p=5898#5898

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It is in store, I think an open store, somewhere more urban. Try Tripoli.

Sorry - that comes from answering the last posting on page 1.

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August 2007 issue of Aeroplane Monthly dovoted an article to this aircraft, with pictures of the relic, actually stored at the Tobruk Military Museum.

Gianandrea

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have a loock here:
http://freeforumzone.leonardo.it/dis...px?idd=6941160

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Funny - the above link refers to a photo of mine which I had just posted today; see one link further above ;-)