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September 21, 2005
Planes in Flight Captured in Google Earth
For aviation buffs, people fascinated with interesting pictures, or those who like to find neat objects in GE here is a nice collection of photos of airplanes captured in flight 
. Someone known as "AZTraveller" at the Google Earth Community has been collecting all the posted Placemarks of planes in flight and he periodically updates his collection as seen here. He has collected approximately 75 planes so far.
[Edited: 9/23/05 - It turns out the information above is a collection of planes captured in flight with Aerial Photography. There is another separate collelction of planes captured in flight with satellite photography. Here's the collection with satellite photography . And here is the thread discussing the satellite photos of planes captured in flight.]
Some of the pictures are quite interesting with planes at strange angles, just about to land, just taking off, helicopters, and more. Just open the link above and then go through the list in the Places folder. I especially like the one above which is a plane captured not far below the aircraft taking the picture, so it's in amazing detail (it's title in the list is "Amazing Airplane Capture!!!").
If you find your own picture of a plane in flight, first turn on the BBS layer to make sure the mark wasn't already recorded in the BBS, then post it in the "Transportation" forum at the Google Earth Community BBS. I'm sure AZTraveller will find your post and determine whether it should be added to his collection. I know there are many other planes in flight not listed (I've seen some in the BBS Layer), so there's work to be done!
Posted by FrankTaylor at September 21, 2005 3:10 PM
Comments
Posted by: Michael D. Campbell at February 14, 2006 10:57 AM
Have you checked the network link for "All Aircraft in Flight" and turned on the Google Earth Community Layers to verify whether the plane has already been found? See my Flying category for the network link.
If you have found a new one, place mark it, and choose "Share with Google Earth Community" from the "File" menu. Then post your find at the Transportation Forum. Make sure you put a good description and indicate it is a plane in flight in the subject.
Posted by: Frank Taylor at February 14, 2006 2:51 PM
Found a U2, a small cessena type and a heliocopter.
Posted by: Dave at August 12, 2006 2:52 PM
I found a flying plane over Berlin
http://spellcoder.com/blogs/mostafa/archive/2006/09/07/541.aspx
Posted by: Mostafa Mourad at September 30, 2006 8:21 AM
google is going great in his work
Keep Going Google
Posted by: Egyptian Senior web designer at August 7, 2007 5:36 AM
Hi,
found an commercial jet about to land on RW01R of Schiphol airport (amsterdam). At that moment the plane must have been at the seam of two pictures, for the aircraft itself misses the right wing, but the airplane's shadow is intact.
Posted by: Peter Serne at December 3, 2007 8:25 AM
i found an airplane flying above Nazca, Peru at:
14° 41´24.34” S
75° 06´57.29” W
Posted by: Alejandro Diaz at January 14, 2008 6:33 PM
I finally found a U2. It was not flying, but it is fully recognizable.
34°37'13.53"N
118° 6'57.02"W
Posted by: Binwa at April 13, 2008 12:16 PM
haha i found a runway incursion waiting to happen at La Guardia airport in New York City runway 31. Looks like two US Airways 737s are about to crash. One is about to takeoff already sitting on the runway and the other one is only about half a mile away on final descent (you can tell by the shadow) look it up u can see both aircraft on the same picture clearly
Posted by: Cal T. at September 2, 2008 5:48 AM
At N33 38 9 W84 23 15 there is a shadow of a plane on a roof top. Can anyone find the plane in the air?
This by Atlanta airport.
Posted by: Type0 at October 2, 2008 8:31 PM
I found an airplane flying over a lake in southern Nebraska. At first I thought, why do they have an airplane in the middle of their lake? And then I realized, Duh, it is in flight and the satellite caught it. I told my geography professor, I thought I was one lucky chick, and he told me that there is a whole community of people out there who look for this stuff. How Cool! I posted it under the name mapkitty. Hopefully it will become part of the community layer. 40d 46'41.78"N, 96d 29'5.30"W
Posted by: Chrissy Lee at November 17, 2008 5:41 PM
A couple of small crop dusters on the ground near Woodside South Australia at 34°57'20.93"S, 138°53'39.68"E and a plane in flight over the Straight of Messina, Italy at 38°15'12.98"N, 15°37'56.15"E
Posted by: Peter at October 25, 2009 7:07 AM
F-22 Raptor, in flight @ east end of runway @ Dobbins AFB, GA. Trailed by a F-16 chase plane. both are about to land.
Barry
Posted by: Barry at January 6, 2010 10:00 PM
3 planes in formation leaving the southern most airstrip at Frankfurt airport heading east. Its a regular airport so three big planes in close formation is a little weird.
Posted by: John Holmes at March 24, 2010 2:19 AM
Found one...probably after takeoff from Nassau, Bahamas.
Lat: 25° 5'44.82"N
Long 77°21'4.73"W
Posted by: Kurt at April 16, 2010 12:26 PM
51.370136,-0.690401 on google maps... bagshot uk...
Posted by: martin at May 12, 2010 12:14 PM
Awesome! That photo of the Cessna looks very sharp considering that it was traveling at least 100kts. Maybe someone could find the brand new Dreamliner ( http://www.aviafilms.com/the-boeing-787-dreamliner.php ) on GE? I would be very thankful to the person!
Posted by: Chris at September 28, 2010 2:39 AM
I spotted an aeroplane- most likely a Qantas Boeing 737-700- flying over Medindie; a wealthy inner eastern suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. It was quite an unusual sight. Haha. Thanks.
Posted by: Aussie at October 12, 2010 12:36 PM
Plane looks like a hologram. Over Tempe AZ
Posted by: Mark at November 22, 2010 12:28 PM
The link didn't post - trying again. Plane over Tempe AZ
Posted by: Mark at November 22, 2010 12:30 PM
Plane in flight over Kearny Marsh, Kearny NJ.
Posted by: Dudley at December 9, 2010 12:48 PM
Sorry for multiple posts, forgot the link.
Posted by: Dudley at December 9, 2010 12:50 PM
Hello!
About 3 planes departing Frankfurt eastward:
I think that those planes are the multiple shots of one single plane in departure phase. It is impossible for planes to have so small separation, this would be against aviation rules, due to wake turbulence behind each big airliner. Those rules calls for several minutes of separation when departing or arriving.
Den
Posted by: Den at December 18, 2010 7:28 AM
Yes, I checked carefully again. All "3" planes are the same Lufthansa airliner departing Frankfurt runway 07L. If you carefully check vehicles on the freeway north of airplane airborne, You'll find some of them twice or three times too (see two trucks with red front end and white trailers driving in parallel). This is the result of multiplyng shots from the sattelite in few seconds intervals, so moving objects appears several times.
Den.
Posted by: Den at December 18, 2010 8:10 AM
Regarding the Frankfurt 747's pls. note that there are 4 shadows and three planes:-)
Posted by: Torben Kofod-Jensen at February 4, 2011 4:03 AM
there is a qatar flight which has just taken off from heathrow at:
51 28' 34.93n 0 31 10.42w
Posted by: dan at April 2, 2011 8:26 AM
33°57'15.89"N 118°13'2.55"W
This is at Compton California!!
Posted by: MP at April 27, 2011 12:12 PM
Found commercial airliner over subdivision in Apache Junction, AZ. From the direction, I assume it is outbound from Mesa Gateway Airport.
It is on Google Maps as of 3 June 11, and it has a very pretty rainbow colored artifact trailing it. :)
It is at 33.395126, -111.556388
Posted by: Terry at June 3, 2011 7:04 PM
hey folks,,,i`ve just found a plane abt to take off from chennai airport...i m afraid it`s a boeing 747 plane... 12°59'21.92"N 80°10'19.97"E air india.....
Posted by: sathya at June 23, 2011 10:55 AM
I have found an aircraft on Ge almost exactly 2mile directly West of Porto Colom Majorca Spain. I cannot give exact Gps position but it can be easily found. Has this been reported before .There is also a perculiar shadow.
Posted by: Ken Cahill at June 24, 2011 6:27 AM
found one entering heathrow 51 28 39 58N 0 22 31 57W
Posted by: Tom at August 18, 2011 2:49 PM
found on at "48031 arkona rd, Belleville, MI"
Posted by: Marc at September 4, 2011 11:00 PM
5.98423 N 37.96406 E over nechisa park in Ethiopia
Posted by: Tabb at October 7, 2011 10:54 PM
United Airlines flight just south of The Museum of Science & Industry at 41°47'8.07"N 41°47'8.07"N
It looks rather blurry
Posted by: Richard at October 22, 2011 10:52 PM
Correction the UA flight south of The Museum of Science & Industry is at 41°47'8.07"N 87°34'45.26"W
Posted by: Richard at October 22, 2011 10:56 PM
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I have identified an aircraft on one of the Google Earth views. Where and to whom do I report it for someone's collection?
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