A strange one on Google Earth

Ha Ha What a ripper. Certainly looks like a Canberra - Melbourne flight doesn't it. Just goes to show how good those cameras are.

Cheers The other Mick O

For those who don't have GE

Michael, that was Geoff and I 4wd'ing. Remember we asked you to come with us that weekend but you had other plans. Didn't you know we had wings on put on the Cruiser. You can see me waving out the window if you zoom in on the pic. Karen

I think that object is small and either on the ground or at tree height. Compare the size of the trees when you zoom right in.

Maybe it's just a pile of something that just happens to look very like a plane.

Very close to the "plane" look at s 35 52 20 e 148 35 10, 148°33'48.43"E

There is a 3D hut on the lanscape. I have never seen that done before.

Willie.

OzGazza, in your pic to the left and slightly lower could that dark smudge be the planes shadow??

Cheers Pop

Another Maree Man??

Jack

Well Mick O - You needed an adventure for that new u-beaut machine of yours --Maybe you should get in there and find it -- LOL

Cheers

Mandrake

You've been conned. It is NOT a real aircraft. The image has been digitally super-imposed. Have a good look around the perimeter of the 'aircraft', there is no evidence of any disturbance to the terrain or vegetation. Not even April 1st.

The only element of scale is the track on the ground. Therefore this can be used to give and indication of the plane size.

The position of the shadow also is a clue to the angle of the sun and the reflection of light off the aircraft suface. Therefore the plane might not be white but "air superority grey".

The relative distance between the front of the wings and the nose make it unlikely to be an airliner (getting max bums on seats). It also seems to have a high wing and also a high tail.

My guess would be a C17 or C5. Could be a early model C141 depending upon the date of the picture. You can examine the aircraft track as well. This would give a clue if coming from Melbourne or Adelaide.

Given that it is SW from Canberra I suspect a RAAF 707 climbing out of Canberra airport en route Sale or possibly Melbourne.

The shape looks very similar:


The trees along the road and near the aircraft are showing late morning shadows and that would match with the shadow on the ground west of the object which could be distorted by the ground profile. That shadow is around 500m from the aircraft. Assuming say 11:00 am that would place the aircraft at around 1700 metres which seems a little low but is feasible if it was doing a low level navigation run. It could be even closer to the ground - from the topo map it seems to be flying over a ridge and with the shadow in the foot of a valley as it approaches Tantangara Mountain.

Regards

Pete
(ex Air Lift Group Senior Intello)

Obviously none of you have seen the new VW advertisement.

It is being towed through the scrub by a Touareg (out of shot).

here's another one...

I know the weather in Tassie can be a little cold but check out 'street view' @
-41.180952, 146.33284 link

I reported this to google a while ago, they responded 'Thanks, we'll investigate" but looks like nothings been done... maybe it's real!