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| Savor the limelight |
Heads are going to roll, they're supposed to take the cloaking devices out before the planes are mothballed. | |||
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The Joy Maker |
I imagine it has something to do with that bullshit 3D Google does with their maps now. 
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| Savor the limelight |
Don't even have to do that. Look at the shadows of the other airplanes. Some have multiple shadows, shadows are at different angles from the objects casting them. Worst of all is the bottom right hand corner where the shadow of one plane is casted to the right and the shadow on the plane below it is casted off to the left. If not purposefully done, is it possible Google uses some sort of composite imagery for their maps? | |||
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| The Joy Maker |
It's part of how they build the maps. You take a trillion pictures, and then stitch them all together, and make a 3D model of it, you're gonna get some wonkeyness every once in a while, it wont be perfect. Here it is from another angle.  Looks like the red plane is missing a bunch of tail, and engines.
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A Grateful American |
Nice try. Clearly, you can see the distortion as the shifting from one dimension to the other is occuring. But "we" know "you" work for "them"... "the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב! | |||
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| Purveyor of Fine Avatars  |
It does look semi-transparent. I looked up the plane sitting next to it: https://www.sbairlines.com/ "I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak!" - Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes" | |||
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| The Joy Maker |
Here's some of the small planes at Boeing Field, they're also half there. https://www.google.com/maps/place/33%C2%B025'29.4%22N+112%C2%B022'42.2%22W/@47.544718,-122.3119553,74a,35y,106.31h/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d33.424834!4d-112.378399 Looks like that B17 took some flak. https://www.google.com/maps/place/33%C2%B025'29.4%22N+112%C2%B022'42.2%22W/@47.5197341,-122.2964937,36a,35y,159.56h,78.83t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d33.424834!4d-112.378399 And another g-g-g-g-ghost jet! https://www.google.com/maps/place/33%C2%B025'29.4%22N+112%C2%B022'42.2%22W/@47.5172334,-122.2957302,34a,35y,159.56h,78.84t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d33.424834!4d-112.378399 This is I5, where are the cars at? https://www.google.com/maps/place/33%C2%B025'29.4%22N+112%C2%B022'42.2%22W/@47.5248957,-122.2918344,35a,35y,160.87h,79.28t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d33.424834!4d-112.378399 (Y'all are gonna have to copy and paste all that)
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אַרְיֵה |
I don't know about the missing piece of tail, but it's not unusual to see airplanes like this without engines. The Orlando-Sanford airport, where I used to base the V-Tail, has a bunch of no-longer-in-service airline planes parked, with missing engines. Also, I noticed one day as I climbed out after takeoff, at the east end of the same airport there is sort of a clearing in the woods. Never noticed it from the ground, but you can see it from the air. There is a Boeing 727 in the middle of this clearing. I asked the tower guy about it as I flew over it. It's there for the fire department guys to do their rescue drill and practice. הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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I'll bet that the B727 at Sanford was donated by FedEx. I used to do Flight Test work on the 72 and flew several to different places on their last flight to be used as training devices for colleges and fire fighting agencies. Pretty cool. If you google map the Boise, ID airport and scan to the southeast, off the airport proper, across W Gowen Rd and at the end of Broadway Ave, there is a B727 parked on the apron of an old assault landing strip type runway. I was the FO on that delivery and the Captain did the landing, we were empty, very little fuel, and stopped in about 2000 of runway. It was probably the coolest (and one of the best) landings I'd ever witnessed. No approach, navaids or VASI/PAPI, just the old eyeballs. It was donated to the city of Boise for firefighting and security training. FedEx donated a bunch of B727s when they retired the fleet over the years. | |||
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| Little ray of sunshine  |
It isn't deliberately manipulated. It is, as you say, composite images and glitches in the rendering software. For example, maybe the computer is trying "average" one photo where the plane is present, and one where it isn't. Or it has moved. Or one plane was there for one photo, and a different one for the next. The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. | |||
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Prince of Cats |
Over closer to the hangers there are some other anomalies, looks like two planes stacked on top of each other, with parts looking invisible. | |||
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We've got 2 FedEx 727s here for our folks to use for training. Which is cool for as I spent 20 years working for FedEx. Still painted up and have the names under the cockpit windows. No wings though. Hell, is other people! J-P S | |||
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| Eschew Obfuscation |
Yep. I just looked again and noticed the shadow off the tail is falling in a different direction from the other planes. _____________________________________________________________________ “One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.” – Thomas Sowell | |||
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Member |
. I think you found the aircraft used during testing of the 3rd generation stealth technology developed by DARPA for the US Air Force. Here is the current production version:  Oh, and don't worry this photo is not classified now that the US is onto the 8th generation of stealth aircraft! | |||
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| Member |
I looked at the photo, but didn't see your invisible aircraft... :P === I would like to apologize to anyone I have *not* offended. Please be patient. I will get to you shortly. | |||
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