mnj1233
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Torrence Departure...is it a Single Ship?
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A Flight of TWO???
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or a Flight of THREE???????? [image] [/image]
Ive seen many mutiple images in GE satellite pic's but this is a first in Street View.
Edited by mnj1233 (05/21/08 10:36 AM)
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Markopolo
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I'm betting it's a red-tail hawk. It's almost certainly a raptor, and I'd bet the mortgage that it's a bird of some kind, not an aircraft. ZOOM in to look at the details, and you'll see the following:
1) Color. Dark brown wings, lighter brown towards the body.
2) Leading edge of the wing curves aft near the tip.
3) Trailing edge of the wing curves toward the wingtip at the base, i.e. the base of the wing is fat, curving at the root towards a pointy tip.
4) Triangular-shaped tail, no visible vertical stabilizer.
Most light aircraft are painted white, or some high-visibilty color, for safety reasons. I've never seen a brown or dark-colored small airplane. Almost all light aircraft have straight edges on both leading and trailing edges. The wing itself may be a trapezoid, not a rectangle, but the leading and trailing edges are almost always straight edges. Delta-wing shapes for the horizontal stabilizers are not something I'm aware of, and the bird doesn't appear to have a vee-tail, it appears triangular to me.
Besides, it has to be a hawk because all the little black birds on the wire in the foreground look scared to me. 
Edited by Markopolo (05/12/08 09:04 PM)
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mnj1233
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Compton Departure [image] [/image] [image] [/image]
Edited by mnj1233 (05/21/08 10:37 AM)
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mnj1233
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Distant Departure from MSP [image] [/image]
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mnj1233
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B757 Departing MSP...Busy day here. [image] [/image]
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mnj1233
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Just a tip for those who may be new to street view links, once you have zoomed in on the link be sure to double click the camera/bubble image to view from the ground. You will then often have to pan the sky for the aircraft. Its kinda like geo-caching in that I get ya close then you find the plane......Good Luck Happy Hunting.
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mnj1233
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During this drive thru the neibhorhood it was difficult for me to look to the skies as this was my old stomping grounds and the area I grew up in. Spent many days skipping school to just lay in the sun and play frisbee looking at girls....not neccessarily in that order. Anyway I did hear something, looked up and low and behold an airplane was flying overhead. [image]http:// [/image] [image] [/image]
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mnj1233
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MSP Busy Day for Departures. [image] [/image] [image] [/image]
Edited by mnj1233 (05/21/08 10:39 AM)
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mnj1233
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Chino California I was in search of a vintage warbird but to no avail. All I could find was this chopper which was very difficult to verify. I have come to the conclusion after a hundred frames it is indeed a chopper landing. The second jpeg however is questionable as I cannot confirm a "Flight of Two". [image] [/image] [image] [/image]
Edited by mnj1233 (05/21/08 10:39 AM)
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mnj1233
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I have to laugh because I know you closet street viewers are out there. I watch every time I post an aircraft and I get 10 rapid views!!!! Please feel free to share with me somes sightings, Id love to see what you find!!!! Its also fun to look around at your placemark location for a odd sighting to post as a bonus photo. As a matter of fact Im gonna start posting bonus images and lets have a contest.........
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