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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
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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
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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?
MDC