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Anyone have any idea where this is on the google earth?

The area has since been updated and it is no longer shown.

did they just happen to take that pic when a lanc was flying or is that photoshopped??

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Taylor Stevenson

no shadow...photoshopped I think

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"I knew the jig was up when I saw the P-51D-20-NA Mustang blue-nosed bastards from Bodney, and by the way the blue was more of a royal blue than an indigo and the inner landing gear interiors were NOT green, over Berlin."

Too god to be true. However the shot is croped very tight. Depending on the altitude and time of day it might be posible. I have found aircraft in flight before, With a shadow out of frame.

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Curtis Block

I've seen too many airplanes destroyed by the term "Static Restoration."

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Look at the shadow of the left vertical stabalizer. The angle matches the angle of the shadows on the houses.

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Curtis Block

I've seen too many airplanes destroyed by the term "Static Restoration."

Guessing Europe, England, roads too narrow for the US. The white vehicle, though, seems to be driving on the right hand side of the road. Shadows do look correct. Ground shadow could be just out of the frame to the upper right.

Next guess?

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Well, it's (obviously) Lancaster PA474 'City of Lincoln' of the BBMF. Apparently the photo was 'found' some time ago by a Google Earth spotter, and I've heard no reason that it may be a fake. It's over somewhere in England. (Generally the Lancaster flies to the Channel Islands for an airshow each year, and has been to Normandy and Holland for special events but rarely further than that.)

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James K

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Emilio Largo, Thunderball.

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See:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/09 ... lancaster/

For the confused... Of course there's another flying Lancaster C-GVRA, but that's unlikely to be seen over that streetscape - and there are differences between the two aircraft you can tell in this kind of picture. (Care to guess what?)

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James K

"Switch on the underwater landing lights"
Emilio Largo, Thunderball.

www.VintageAeroWriter.com

Links to the story.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/09 ... lancaster/

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/hu ... 90209f.lpf

Some place I have/had book marked a site with a bunch of photos with planes in the air. I looking for it and when I find it, I'll post it.

still don't see a shadow in a wider picture, but hey, I'm often wrong.

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"I knew the jig was up when I saw the P-51D-20-NA Mustang blue-nosed bastards from Bodney, and by the way the blue was more of a royal blue than an indigo and the inner landing gear interiors were NOT green, over Berlin."

I viewed this on Google Earth myself shortly after it was discovered and posted by a Google spotter over a year ago. It is unlikely that someone hacked into Google Earth and inserted this image. A member of the Lanc crew also confirmed that they had taken that route previously.

I agree with BrianB, I remember the post. Seems at the time there were some coordinates posted. I went there and there it was..but with the new "freebie" version of Google Earth the area's probably been updated. Maybe no more Lanc..I don't remember the coordinates

It's a real picture! During mapping from space they cought this image of the Lanc flying in the UK

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Impossible.