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Web platform, Android, iOS. Type. Flight simulation. Website. www.geo-fs.com. GeoFS is a multi-platform browser-based flight simulator based on the Cesium WebGL Virtual Globe. [2] The free map is based on images taken by the Sentinel-2 satellite while the HD map is from Bing Maps. [3] The game features a variety of planes including aircraft ...
Google Earth is a computer program that renders a 3D representation of Earth based primarily on satellite imagery. The program maps the Earth by superimposing satellite images, aerial photography, and GIS data onto a 3D globe, allowing users to see cities and landscapes from various angles. Users can explore the globe by entering addresses and ...
Steve Fossett. James Stephen Fossett (April 22, 1944 – September 3, 2007) was an American businessman and a record-setting aviator, sailor, and adventurer. He was the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in a balloon and in a fixed-wing aircraft. He made his fortune in the financial services industry and held world records for ...
List of Earth flybys. Earth imaged by MESSENGER during its 2005 flyby. List of Earth flybys is a list of cases where spacecraft incidentally performed Earth flybys, typically for a gravity assist to another body. Spacecraft.
12 October 1992. 13 October 1992. Concorde FAI "Westbound Around the World" world air speed record from Lisbon, Portugal. [27][28][29] Michel Dupont and Claude Hetru (Air France) 31 hours 27 minutes and 49 seconds. 15 August 1995. 16 August 1995. Concorde with 98 passengers and crew, no equatorial crossing.
BBC One. BBC HD. Release. 29 December 2011. (2011-12-29) –. 29 January 2012. (2012-01-29) Earthflight is a British nature documentary that shows a flight from the view of the wings of birds across six continents, showing some of the world's greatest natural spectacles from a bird's-eye view. [1]
Earth's atmosphere photographed from the International Space Station.The orange and green line of airglow is at roughly the altitude of the Kármán line. [1]The Kármán line (or von Kármán line / v ɒ n ˈ k ɑːr m ɑː n /) [2] is a conventional definition of the edge of space.
Jerrie Mock. Geraldine " Jerrie " Fredritz Mock (November 22, 1925 – September 30, 2014) was an American pilot and the first woman to fly solo around the world. [2] She flew a single engine Cessna 180 (registered N1538C) christened the Spirit of Columbus and nicknamed "Charlie." [3][4] The trip began March 19, 1964, in Columbus, Ohio, and ...