AZTraveller
Master Cartographer
Reged: 07/15/05
Posts: 1388
Loc: Arizona
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Clorius welcome to GE. A good find . Were you plane spotting or boat spotting when you found this? You are correct I believe it is a Boeing 747 - 200. I will include it in the next update of the forums finds Satellite captured Planes in flight
Have fun and again welcom to GE
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bebop
Master Guide
Reged: 08/11/05
Posts: 2492
Loc: Florence, Ita
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Ciao 
A friend of mine has just sent me this plane.
I think it's an A-319, following one of the most important flight path in Italy.
I'm not sure if it's a new find. Perhaps AZTraveller may confirm.
Bye
b
Special thanks Mr. Ombus
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Clorius
World Explorer
Reged: 08/30/05
Posts: 1312
Loc: Ringkøbing, Denmark
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Thanks for the welcome AZTraveller.
When i found the first one i was just looking around.
I've found several planes before, but this is the first that i'm pretty sure no one posted before.
Right now i'm planespotting and i've just found a 3rd one, just after takeoff from Narita, Japan, maybe a A300.
Edit: This one has been added to the "Satellite captured Planes in flight" database, so i've removed my placemark.
Edited by Clorius (09/22/05 07:56 AM)
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Munden
Collection Editor
Reged: 07/24/05
Posts: 1768
Loc: Maryland, USA
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I'll put this other new one here. It's a plane flying over Fukuoka, Japan. The shadow is clearly visible too. Due to the relative lack of color blurring I suspect the plane is traveling very slowly in preparation for another sharp right turn onto final at Fukuoka Airport.
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AZTraveller
Master Cartographer
Reged: 07/15/05
Posts: 1388
Loc: Arizona
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Bebop it is a Great new find but it is actually a Boeing 737-200 not an Airbus. So I am being picky. Should tell your mystery explorer to post his own finds and reveal his strategy for finding them.
It will get included in the next update of Satellite captured Planes in flight
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Clorius
World Explorer
Reged: 08/30/05
Posts: 1312
Loc: Ringkøbing, Denmark
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Here's yet another one, approaching Chiang Kai Shek International Airport, Taiwan.
Possibly a 747.
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bebop
Master Guide
Reged: 08/11/05
Posts: 2492
Loc: Florence, Ita
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AZTraveller:
I'm not convinced about 737: 737-200 is smaller (but measuring tool is not the Holy Bible) and its nose is sharper. A-319s fly often from Florence to Rome (and vice versa) and I'm pretty sure that this plane is just on that airway. Longer flights mostly pass over the sea.
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Should tell your mystery explorer to post his own finds and reveal his strategy for finding them
he he he  You don't know my mistery  friend... I told him, but i knew he would not have posted: he's quite lazy about technical stuff... As he's an art history teacher, he's not really involved in aircrafts: he just came across the plane searching for an historical statue park in that area. 
Lucky find, but very nice one.
Bye
b
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timfitz
Tourist
Reged: 07/31/05
Posts: 57
Loc: Toronto, Ontario (Canada)
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Thanks AZTraveller!
What a marvellous compilation of these sightings, which seems to be a specialty of yours.
I haven't been through the whole collection yet, but do I see that some of these images have been changed since the posting? Probably a result of updating the photos. For example, "Landing Dublin Ireland" is not showing a landing plane, though it does show beautiful images of other planes in taxi and one about to take off. I noticed Dublin on the list of the recently updated images. Another example was of the "Plane Landing at LaGuardia ", where we now see a line up of planes about to take off, and on a quick look around I don't see anything landing.
I've seen a couple of your explanations of the "ghost" images, here among other places, and was intrigued with your recent calculation that a plane was flying at 550 mph. I assume this is from knowing the interval between the two shots, and that the apparent motion off the line of flight -- so that the "shadow" normally appears on the diagonal ahead of the brighter image -- has to do with the motion of the satellite as it shoots? This must make the calculation of speed a little more interesting than a simple distance over time calculation.
Your explanations are wonderfully clear, by the way, though I am torn between those explanations and the theory posted in another thread a few days ago (sorry that I can't find it to refer to) that the photographer up there in the satellite taking those double images may have been the same guy that took his wedding shots....
Thanks again, how I do go on. Maybe I should change my handle to "rambler"
cheers,
Tim
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Clorius
World Explorer
Reged: 08/30/05
Posts: 1312
Loc: Ringkøbing, Denmark
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Plane after takeoff from Mariscal Sucre Internatonal Airport, Ecuador.
And it's allready at ~3000m.
Edit: This one has been added to the "Satellite captured Planes in flight" database, so i've removed my placemark.
Edited by Clorius (09/22/05 07:59 AM)
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Clorius
World Explorer
Reged: 08/30/05
Posts: 1312
Loc: Ringkøbing, Denmark
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Here's a 737, i think, after takeoff from Beograd Airport, Serbia.
Edit: This one has been added to the "Satellite captured Planes in flight" database, so i've removed my placemark.
Edited by Clorius (09/22/05 08:01 AM)
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