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Title: SA A380 on Google Earth :P
Post by: EHM-1001 Robert on April 14, 2009, 02:14:33 pm

First A380 spotted on Google Earth. Location: Heathrow, Pier 6 extension ;)

Title: SA A380 on Google Earth :P
Post by: EHM-1465 Dominic on April 15, 2009, 01:34:11 am

Robert,

Did you have to zoom in at all or is it so big that you can see it from space like the Grand Canyon and Great Wall of China...? ;D;D;D

Title: SA A380 on Google Earth :P
Post by: EHM-1009 Kevin on April 15, 2009, 10:58:50 am

yup, its singapore airlines A380 :) plus just north of 27L threshold you can see the parked up crashed BA B777.

Title: SA A380 on Google Earth :P
Post by: EHM-2309 Joshua on April 15, 2009, 11:56:56 am

I see both of them:>

Title: SA A380 on Google Earth :P
Post by: EHM-1001 Robert on April 15, 2009, 08:12:43 pm

Well, to tell the truth I was looking for airport layouts regarding public traffic ways... anyway I was scanning the airports in large zoom and weee ;D

Title: SA A380 on Google Earth :P
Post by: EHM-2309 Joshua on April 16, 2009, 09:10:38 am

Did you spot the concorde? I think its a model of her though...

Title: SA A380 on Google Earth :P
Post by: EHM-1001 Robert on April 16, 2009, 04:13:56 pm

I do not know if it is real but quietly standing on the 3rd not-used runway ;)

Title: SA A380 on Google Earth :P
Post by: EHM-1465 Dominic on April 16, 2009, 07:33:21 pm

It's real alright ;)

That's Concorde G-BOAB which has been at Heahtrow since 2003 waiting for someone to come up with a plan to display her. Latest suggestion is that she might be going to Bahrain...

More details here (http://www.concordesst.com/latestnews.html).

Title: SA A380 on Google Earth :P
Post by: EHM-1001 Robert on April 25, 2009, 09:12:24 pm

There are 2 other A380s standing at Blagnac Airport, Tolouse. There is an interesting (?) area of the airport without terminal. There are "unpainted" planes too waiting there.

Title: SA A380 on Google Earth :P
Post by: EHM-2309 Joshua on April 26, 2009, 09:59:06 pm

Robert,

You say that they are 'unpainted', but are they not done in 'airbus' livery?
There is also definatly 1 unpainted one though (as well as these two...)

Title: SA A380 on Google Earth :P
Post by: EHM-1001 Robert on April 27, 2009, 05:49:53 pm

I remember I seen 2 A340s with plain green-brown primer fuselage panels... maybe Virgin Atlantic tail... That looks odd, because I thought that planes are immediately painted after assembly. But as I see the internal furbishing is undergoing unpainted, outdoor.