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Jonathan

On 5/14/05, Jim Popovitch <jimpop at yahoo.com> wrote:
> While gmap'ing over the ATL airport yesterday I noticed that you can see
> 3 planes in position over runway 8R (northside takeoff).  If you click
> the URL below you will see one plane that has just departed.  If you
> navigate to the left you will see one plane that has just left the
> concrete, and move further to the left you will see one plane beginning
> it's take-off roll.  Clearly this would be an FAA violation.  So, since
> all three planes look identical in the pictures, it is safe to assume
> they are all the same plane.
> 
> So a few questions to ponder:
> 
>  -Is it safe to assume the camera is moving west to east?
> 
>  -Take off speed would be about 150 mph (Sega Airlines ;-) so
>     how fast is the camera moving?
> 
> -The satellite image captures frames as it passes over earth,
>     why does it not show 2 slow moving planes/objects on top of
>     each other?  (see cars/trucks on nearby expressways)
> 
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