Google Earth 4.2 came with a nifty Easter egg: a hidden flight simulator. You could fly your virtual airplane from severalairportsor start midair from any location. The feature was so popular that it was incorporated as a standard function of Google Earth and Google Earth Pro. No unlocking n...
Last week, news hit the blogs that Google Earth provides a flight simulator that allows a user to “fly” over mapped terrain of real places. Here’s an excerpt from a post at Techcrunch: Hidden inside Google Earth is a secret Flight Simulator that takes full advantage of Google’s extensi...
(It had previously been mooted that the interruption in the arcs was because another Inmarsat satellite would have picked up MH370’s ping had the plane been that far east. But in fact the interruption is not centered on the equator, as it would have had to be had it been due to a ...
These displays are also incredibly helpful if you're aiming to fly business or first class, too. For example, Google Flights will tell you whether you'll have an outdated angled-flat seat that doesn't recline all the way into a bed; lie-flat seat; or maybe even an individual suite comp...
Google Earth,Closed Cartographer: Free Javascript libraries (MIT License) for generating basic thematic maps. Choropleth Pie charts Cluster Links to additional live examplesat the website. You can hard-code data values, or retrieve them from an online source like a Google Spreadsheet. ...
Google Earth and satellite imagery has revealed some strange things, from secret military bunkers in China to phantom islands to a mysterious pentagram in Kazakhstan.
Install the Google Earth application and launch it. Once the application opens, navigate to Tools > Enter Flight Simulator or simultaneously press Ctrl + Alt + A. Now, you’ll be asked to Select your aircraft; if you’re a beginner, use SR22 to learn how to fly. However, if you have...
If you recall the original Microsoft Windows Flight Simulator of years ago, this is a lot like that. And the plane is just as difficult to fly as that was. But if you can get your plane airborne, touring beautiful places across the world from the sky is a truly amazing experience. ...
Better still, Google Earth has a built-in flight simulator that lets you travel around the world using an actual plane. You can even choose whether to fly an SR22 or F-16 jet and play using a joystick (if you have one.) Our advice is to turn on 3D buildings as well, which means...
What it doesn’t have that the software version has is the ability to fly a plane (using Google Earth’s built-in Flight Simulator) all over Mars. My students love this. I didn’t teach it to them at all. They were curious, motivated and figured it out on their own. I love studen...