I have some reservations about stating that the image here (38 28' 55.50" N, 119 24' 18.14" W) and discussed here (http://www.iconnectdots.com/ctd/2007/09/is-this-steve-f.html) and elsewhere is in fact a plane in-flight.
If the airplane pictured was in flight, I would expect that it would appear very slightly larger than if it were sitting on the ground.
I measured the wingspan of the aircraft as-is and it came to 29.19 ft. Nose to tail it is 25.23 ft. The spec of the Bellanca Super Decathlon lists the wingspan at 32ft.
I freely admit that it could be a flying plane, but it seems to me that this is very likely a crash site of a small plane. Otherwise it's a *very* small plane flying quite low.
Also a recent article said that the last anyone saw of his plane was near Mt. Patterson, which is only 5.65 miles from this site.
Perhaps my math and/or reasoning is off but this still looks like a candidate to me. Thoughts?
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