Chino airport on Google Maps

[Hooligan2]

During the last few summers it has been remarkable seeing the number of survey aircraft visible on ADSB operating over the UK - and occasional in the flesh so to speak, from Partenavias orbiting at 1500', Cessna 206s and 310s doing grid patterns at 2-3000' and King Airs/Cheyennes flying larger grids at 16000'. I thought they were using Lidar to get the 3D stuff (I used to work with land surveyors who used ground-based Lidar for 3D imaging purposes), but I gather it's all done with oblique photography - remarkable. I understand Apple are busy developing their own virtual world.

Whenever I have time, I explore airfields around the world on Google, looking for interesting aircraft!

[Chris Brame]

Anyone else see the winless F-89?

As in "winless" in the Battle of Palmdale?
I see the EC-121 is partly dismantled; the C-46 seems to be raised off the ground in the middle of assorted bits, and the Martin 4-0-4 forward fuselage hasn't moved.

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[Chris Brame]

And speaking of wingless F-89s, this one in SD is no longer visible:





https://www.google.com/maps/place/43%C2 ... d-96.57261

Hopefully 51-11443 was moved into the barn?

[XL446]

And speaking of wingless F-89s, this one in SD is no longer visible:





https://www.google.com/maps/place/43%C2 ... d-96.57261

Hopefully 51-11443 was moved into the barn?

Andy Marden's 2019/2020 USA Military Out of Service says it's not been there since September 1998, as it then moved to its (AFAIK) current position, viz. 43.802582841926544, -96.5289208150492. That's where I photographed it in July 2017 at any rate.

[Chris Brame]

Thanks much!

[bdk]

I see the EC-121 is partly dismantled; the C-46 seems to be raised off the ground in the middle of assorted bits, and the Martin 4-0-4 forward fuselage hasn't moved.

The Connie is actively under restoration. The C-46 is sitting on the gear as I recall.

[sandiego89]

........Whenever I have time, I explore airfields around the world on Google, looking for interesting aircraft!

I'm glad I'm not the only one! When scouring old airfields, target ranges, boneyards, bases, you can waste......ahhh..... spend countless hours conducting historical research!