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Originally posted by gariac
How did you get the two images so well aligned? If I understand what you did, you aligned Google Earth imagery to a photograph. That means you got the right angle and altitude. That can't be easy.
Imagej has a mode using the "unwarp" plugin that can warp one image to fit another.
Originally posted by gariac
I think you are running an older version of google earth, or you are not running the PC version. Google has gone through great pains to hide the controls on the current rev. The middle mouse controls tilts and the right mouse controls rotation. It is far inferrior to the older versions where the tools just stayed on the screen. The linux version has the older format, but unfortunately it has to run in opengl, which makes it very slow.
There are some smaller planes that do the Vegas to Reno route (DH6 or DH8 class), I'm going to poke around later and see what commercial flight does the lowest fly by.
Originally posted by gariac
Flying at 15k versus 40k is nearly 4 miles lower. Well I suppose you need to compare the hypotenuse. Assume your flyby is 20 miles away to Groom Lake. The altitudes are MSL IIRC, so 15kft MSL is about 10kft AGL and 40kft MSL is 35kft AGL. Call this 2 miles AGL versus 6 AGL. So we're talking 20.9 miles versus 20.1 miles. I suppose that isn't all that great of a distance.
But for other targets, such as the new Yucca airbase, lower would be better.