Jared Moya
January 23rd, 2006, 01:22 PM
UPDATE, 1/16/2006: Google maps catches flying car racing across Australia!
Eagle-eyed Internet sleuths have discovered hundreds of weird aircraft on Google Maps' satellite views, from stealth bombers to bizarre globular UFOs hovering over Florida.
http://googlesightseeing.com/wp-content/ufo.jpg
But a map-watcher in England may have topped them all by finding a ghost from World War II captured by satellite cameras flying over his own house.
The mystery plane is a historic and flightworthy Avro Lancaster bomber, one of only two left on Earth.
Now living at the United Kingdom's Coningsby air force base, the Lancaster is one of only two such planes still airworthy. 7,377 of the massive bombers were built for World War II.
Although this Lancaster didn't fly in combat -- the war with Japan ended before it was ready for battle -- it was one of the only Lancasters that wasn't scrapped in the post-war years.
http://www.sploid.com/images/WWIIgoogle.jpg
READ ARTICLE (http://www.sploid.com/news/2006/01/google_maps_cat.php)
Eagle-eyed Internet sleuths have discovered hundreds of weird aircraft on Google Maps' satellite views, from stealth bombers to bizarre globular UFOs hovering over Florida.
http://googlesightseeing.com/wp-content/ufo.jpg
But a map-watcher in England may have topped them all by finding a ghost from World War II captured by satellite cameras flying over his own house.
The mystery plane is a historic and flightworthy Avro Lancaster bomber, one of only two left on Earth.
Now living at the United Kingdom's Coningsby air force base, the Lancaster is one of only two such planes still airworthy. 7,377 of the massive bombers were built for World War II.
Although this Lancaster didn't fly in combat -- the war with Japan ended before it was ready for battle -- it was one of the only Lancasters that wasn't scrapped in the post-war years.
http://www.sploid.com/images/WWIIgoogle.jpg
READ ARTICLE (http://www.sploid.com/news/2006/01/google_maps_cat.php)