Cyclonic
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Reged: 09/05/05
Posts: 2429
Loc: Connecticut - USA
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This post contains screenshots of airplanes captured in flight in GE with ID and dimensions.
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All dimensions are accurate and taken from Airliners.net and Wikipedia so keep in mind that they will vary in GE.
Satellite pix are fairly close most of the time but aerial pix are off by alot.
I included both feet and meters.
The old chart was pretty messy, with measurements from the GE tool, which led to very innacurate information.
I sorted them in alphabetical order by company for the most popular ones.
Military planes were done seperately and are after the Civilian planes.
Most of their measurements were taken from FAS.ORG.
On the bottom I added new schematic drawings with the visual differences on a few sets of planes that are close in size and shape.
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The following pictures are planes of similar size where the GE measuring tool can go either way.
In these cases you will need to be able to tell the differences simply by looking at them.
Hopefully the pictures below will help make it easier.
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Most times, this is a easy way to tell a Boeing from a Airbus.
Many thanks to Bebop for his patience and expertise in this subject. 
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**All Aircraft in Flight**
**Crop Circle Collection**
**The Maze Collection**
**The In-Flight ID Charts**
Edited by Cyclonic (02/18/08 04:32 AM)
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Cyclonic
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Reged: 09/05/05
Posts: 2429
Loc: Connecticut - USA
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ahh problems already. How do I get it to show its full size? 
EDIT: its my picture hosting site. photobucket.com. They automatically resize a pic over 500k.
I changed it from .bmp to .jpg. I think its back to full size.
Edited by Cyclonic (11/19/05 07:10 AM)
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no_stranger
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Reged: 10/26/05
Posts: 4486
Loc: Western Australia GMT+8
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Hi Cyclonic, The Flick comes up a trick, Thanks ,much appreciated.
Cheers. K.P.
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Jump to Google Earth Support Groups.
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Delta102
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Reged: 07/07/05
Posts: 4947
Loc: Playa del Rey, California
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For the past day or so Ive been trying to come up with a way to help me better ID planes in flight. Im absolutely terrible at it and using the net wasnt helping. Too much info, too many URLs to look at, hardly any overhead shots to go by = frustration.
So I thought, why not just use Bebop's ID replies (which we all can trust) and throw some actual screenshots into 1 pic with dimensions on top and ID on bottom? hmm. I started working on it.
Well, I ended up with a very messy looking pic, lol, but one that I think will help a little.
Granted, the dimensions are hard because of a planes altitude, most arent accurate but it will at least give a rough measurement and something to go by. The main thing is the looks of the plane along with the ID. I was going to just keep this on my hard drive but now decided to post it here so others can use it if they want, or for any constructive critisizm on how to improve it.
These were the most popular planes, and almost all big ones. Theres many others. If I find a bunch of different planes maybe ill start a second picture. The measurements are in feet (sorry metric users) The L is the length of the body and WS is wingspan.
 A Pro's Guild to Aircraft in Flight..
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Frank_McVey
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Reged: 07/22/05
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Thanks Cyclonic - that's certainly a keeper.
Cheers
Frank
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bebop
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Reged: 08/11/05
Posts: 2585
Loc: Florence, Ita
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Hi Cyclonic
Very nice work indeed!  
I'm sure it's really useful.
For your next collage picture, you might add some more planes, such as A 319, 737-100 (thin engines), Cessna 500 Citation, C-130, F-14 (I can remember those, but I'm pretty sure there are some more).
Tomorrow, time permitting, I'll try a search and I'll PM you the links.
Thank you.
Bye
b
PS: don't trust me too much... sometimes I just try an ID... 
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saukko
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Reged: 09/07/05
Posts: 1230
Loc: Helsinki, Finland
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Well, now even I could turn civilian with these recognition jobs. Beware !
Great job ! Have a sip, this is the best !
 
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Cheers,
saukko
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Cyclonic
Frequent Flyer
Reged: 09/05/05
Posts: 2429
Loc: Connecticut - USA
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Thanks all. It was kinda fun to make. I havent messed with paint shop in a while. B, yes many are missing, including the fighters and other military planes. I can find them posts ok but have trouble finding non-military light craft where a positive ID can be made. Mostly on certain types of cessnas. Any help with links would be great!
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Cyclonic
Frequent Flyer
Reged: 09/05/05
Posts: 2429
Loc: Connecticut - USA
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Found enough different planes to make a second one. I started to run out near the end so the bottom right has a few odd ones just to fill the pic.
If anyone can think of a bunch of others ill be glad to make a third.
Thanks to Bebop and Saukko for the links and IDs!
Edit: moved it to OP under 1st pic.
Edited by Cyclonic (11/20/05 02:33 PM)
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lilbond
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Reged: 09/29/05
Posts: 7
Loc: central US
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can you post latitudes and longitudes for the planes.
by the way, a good place to find planes in flight is around Chicago because of o'hare airport and the smaller midway airport(as well as the dozens of smaller airports surrounding the city)
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