Japan Airlines landing Honolulu

Japan Airlines Airliner (JA701J) - Aerial Imagery
Aircraft landing at Honolulu with clear marking visible.

Attachments:

Twin Jet on final HNL 2013.kmz (888 B)

Hi, Yamla,

Yup, this is a Boeing 777-200 landing at HNL, # JA701J on the 17 Jan 2013 (according to the date stamp)

This is a strange picture, because if you look at my placemark, you'll see she's also sitting on the Gate at the terminal!  Usually this sort of anomaly happens where a joint occurs when two images are stitched together.  However the stitching is pretty good here and you can't easily see the join - very often there are differences in the colour balance of the images, strange discontinuities where the white lines on a road or a runway don't quite join up, or shadows appear at different angles, or the date stamp at the bottom of the viewer is different.    In this case Google must have had their best carto on the job, since none of the above are evident at first glance - even the dates match!

However, the same aircraft can't be in two different places at the same time, so there obviously must be a join somewhere!  Anyway, here she is:




Photo by YK, courtesy Airliners.net

Cheers,

Frank

Attachments:

JA701J.kmz (812 B)