Satellite pic of a jet in flight

I was looking around on Terraserver, at an old aquaintance's house.

The satellite camera captured a KC-135R tanker in flight over his backyard.

I can't link to the image, but here are the coordinates:
Longitude: -99.18003
Latitude: 34.63877

The website is: terraserver.microsoft.com...

Be sure to set the zoom down to its lowest setting.

His house is located approx. 5 mi. east of Altus, Oklahoma

Wow that's pretty cool.
If you want to put up the image just press 'print screen' open up paint and press paste....

Ash

Nice find!

Or, you can right click on the image and choose 'Save Image As...'. I did.

Thanks for the info on posting pictures here.

thats not just a great find it's an amazing find

There's actually a large Air Force base in Altus, OK. I suppose it's associated with that base. Talk about a needle in a hatstack.

Great picture!

Thanks for posting the pic Ben!

WOW !!!!!!!!

Great pic !!

With eyesight like yours who needs satellites !!!

Just to revive this thread, heres another good bunch of aircraft captured by satellites.

Boeing 727 possibly over a dam

747 in flight

Aircraft lining up for landing

Aircraft on the ground at Atlanta airport and another one

Groom Lake Reseach base

Aircraft graveyard

Aircraft shortly after takeoff

Can anyone name these aiurcraft carriers at dock?

Not strictly an Aircraft Project post, but heres the CIA Langly HQ

This sounds odd but no matter how many times I see the aircraft graveyard out there it saddens me.....if only I had enough (well any ) money then I would like to save one or two if the US Govt. would allow me.......

Nice find, amazing what they can do with satellites these days.






West Point, Out.

Look at this one and scroll down one time. Notice the very slight separation between the aircraft?

maps.google.com...,-97.052321&spn=0.007210,0.007381&t=k&hl=en

One plane is crossing what appears to be an interstate freeway while the other is leaving the airport threshold. Seems a little close to me. Great picture.

Originally posted by titian
Look at this one and scroll down one time. Notice the very slight separation between the aircraft?

maps.google.com...,-97.052321&spn=0.007210,0.007381&t=k&hl=en

One plane is crossing what appears to be an interstate freeway while the other is leaving the airport threshold. Seems a little close to me. Great picture.

Its quite probably the same aircraft, captured a little father on. If you scroll up, you can see a third and fourth aircraft in the air at the same sort of seperation.

Image of Concorde on the ground


[edit on 16/4/2005 by RichardPrice]

Originally posted by dbates
There's actually a large Air Force base in Altus, OK. I suppose it's associated with that base. Talk about a needle in a hatstack.

I worked at Altus AFB for 4 years. It's a training base for the USAF for heavy aircraft. When I was there, we had C-141's, C-5's, KC-135's, and C-17's. The picture is of a KC-135R.

The house in the picture belonged to a co-worker of mine.

Sorry, edited last post to show CORRECT link

SR-71s at Edwards

Originally posted by RichardPrice
Just to revive this thread, heres another good bunch of aircraft captured by satellites.

Boeing 727 possibly over a dam

747 in flight

Aircraft lining up for landing

Aircraft on the ground at Atlanta airport and another one

Groom Lake Reseach base

Aircraft graveyard

Aircraft shortly after takeoff

Can anyone name these aiurcraft carriers at dock?

Not strictly an Aircraft Project post, but heres the CIA Langly HQ

The pic showing groom lake and the pic showing atlanta airport are the same link

Originally posted by RichardPrice
Sorry, edited last post to show CORRECT link

SR-71s at Edwards

Very cool thanks for posting.


Does anyone know what the smaller fighter sized black plane is just above the 2 SR/A12's?

The lighter colored one looks like a F-15, I can't tell what the other is though.