savvyearth
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That does look interesting.
Any idea on what this could be?
38°39'57.08"N
119° 1'10.16"W
I have reported it to mturk.
[image][img=http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/7172/imageqx8.th.jpg][/image]
Edited by savvyearth (09/11/07 12:38 PM)
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jwhee0615
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anyone have coordinates or screen shot of an already discovered wreck in the area - there have been 6.
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I think no sat shots to the east as it's military area. 
Even more reason to look over there. If I were looking for dry lake beds I would have gone east and not west into the sierras.
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Dwarden
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That does look interesting.
Any idea on what this could be?
38°39'57.08"N
119° 1'10.16"W
I have reported it to mturk.
[image][img=http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/7172/imageqx8.th.jpg][/image]
well the object is 9.9m widespan and 7m long ... it exactly fits the size of Super Decathlon ...
but it's on so visible place that's nearly impossible search parties missed it
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danescombe
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See what Fossett is up against .
Man v Wild --------------------------------------> Surviving the Sierra Nevada
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bubbacarl
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I found this aircraft. I think it's actually flying though. I did report it to mturk.
38°52'30.92"N
119°21'48.50"W
bubbacarl
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LandisB
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Steve Fossett was flying a Bellanca Super Decathlon. It is blue with white starbursts and orange trim. A good photo of a Super Decathlon (in red instead of blue) can be seen below and a link to a page with pictures of the actual airplane can be seen here.
Reports originally said that he went missing while scouting locations for a land-speed record attempt. Since then we have learned that he had already selected a site and may have been sightseeing. RADAR had tracked him in a number of locations and the search area is based on his flight pattern.
There are a number of Search and Rescue aircraft in the area. The Civil Air Patrol alone had over 20 between the Nevada and California Wings. The CAP usually flies Cessna 182's, 172's, 206's and has used at least one Gippsland GA-8 Airvan. Most all of the aircraft used by the CAP will have a paint scheme similar to the one on their home page. And remember, just because you measure a wingspan of 29 feet and the C-182 has a wingspan of 38 feet doesn't mean that it's not a C-182 in a turn while performing a search.
The Hiltons, CHP, Air National Guard, and county sheriffs also have their own aircraft out on the search. Many of them are helicopters or larger aircraft, but they will be seen as well.
And, of course, make sure you're looking at the KML supplied by Amazon instead of the old imagery in the default loading of Google Earth.
The terrain out there is rough and large and very difficult to search. Although I definitely wish the new imagery was of higher resolution this can certainly help in the search effort. But everyone must definitely submit coordinates of possible targets through the Amazon Mechanical Turk website.
Good hunting!
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xylos
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This is from the Steve Fosset website:
http://www.stevefossett.com/
11 September 2007 - Nevada, USA - As the Civil Air Patrol, National Guard, sheriffs' departments and volunteer fleets flying from from Minden-Tahoe and the Flying M Ranch all continue the search for the missing adventurer into a second week, the Amazon Mechanical Turk / Google Earth web-based image analysis project has been operational since the weekend and continues to receive and sift leads, filtering and analyzing possible sitings and passing them through to members of the search teams click here to take part.
It is now believed that Steve Fossett was unlikely to have ventured far afield (such as crossing the Sierra Nevada range), but that he was more likely to have been on a local pleasure flight - and that he probably was not surveying sites for the upcoming landspeed record project.
Based on Steve's known movements, plans and the aircraft's capabilities, the search is now primarily focused on a 30 - 50 mile radius of the ranch, with some members of the search team convinced he is even closer.
The aircraft's last confirmed position on Monday (3 September) at approximately 10:30 A.M. local time showed Steve west of Powell Canyon (south of Walker Lake and southwest of Hawthorne), proceeding east towards the canyon. This location is less than 30 miles SE from his point of departure / expected arrival. Steve was expected to return to the ranch around 11:00 - 11:30 AM. Although the Super Decathlon is capable of good performance at sea level, the predicted aircraft speed and climb rate must be adjusted down for the density altitude of this area in summer
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This has lots of info if you are looking outside of the confines of the Mechnical Turk searching process.
[image]http://www.stevefossett.com/[/image]
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MacDoc1
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38°39'57.08"N
119° 1'10.16"W
Looks like a small buildling from the the shadow and it's very close to the complex in the valley - there is a path it looks like to
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BTW I passed that ridge line site on to the search coordinator directly - excellent find.
I'm intrigued by the patterned stuff here
 
Edited by MacDoc1 (09/11/07 02:06 PM)
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crono33
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i have watched plenty GE maps of the area and a few hundreds mechanical turk images.
personally, i think the chances to find Mr. Fossett alive are now very small.
i am a pilot and i have many colleagues who have been in crash landings.
the reasons why an airplane goes down are not many
- pilot incapacitation: rare event, and considering Mr.Fossett fitness, quite unlikely, but in the case, lethal. i wouldnt expect to be easy to spot a wreck impacting at high speed/ high angles with terrain. however in such desert area any sort of wreckage would be quite easy to see.
- structural failure: usually lethal, but a very rare event. see above for spotting the wreck
- engine failure: this leads to a crash landing. however, the super decathlon stalls at 53mph therefore is quite easy, for a pilot like Mr.Fossett, to crash land even on harsh terrain without destroying the airplane. last sunday i was flying over italian mountains and a colleague happened to crash land in the same area in a river bed. only landing gear damage. i would expect the super decathlon also to stay upright and not capsize, being it a taildragger. in such case, one of the two ELT would have been activated. i would have expected Mr. Fossett to manually activate the ELT in case of engine failure.
ELT's dont work under water..
- bad weather: would not expect Mr.Fossett to end up accidentally in weather liable to be dangerous for flying..
unfortunately the color scheme of that specific airplane is not the best for spotting from the air.
all this is very baffling. unless Mr Fossett is not where they are searching, i am very surprised nothing has been found yet.
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JasonBo
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"This is kind of a new thing for us," Civil Air Patrol Maj. Cynthia Ryan said Monday, adding that every Google-generated tip is reviewed and the best ones passed on to pilots. So far, there have been several false sightings of Fossett's airplane
CNN
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