Fun with Google Maps

Wed, Mar 19, 2008

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Go to Google Maps.

Enter these coordinates:

48.825183,2.1985795

Click “Satellite” so you can see the terrain.

Zoom all the way in.

Now explain the reasoning behind this to me.

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rmc Says:
March 19th, 2008 at 2:47 pm

From http://hipparchia-moonlighting.blogspot.com/2007_07_01_archive.html:

“But a Francophonic friend generously donated a few minutes to co-googling, in which we discovered that the Université de Paris X Nanterre has sites at Ville d’Avray and Saint-Cloud, and the IUT de Ville d’Avray, 1 chemin Desvallières, 92410 Ville d’Avray, France) has an Aeronautiques program and publishes research of the applied physics variety. Call me fanciful, but I’m thinking that aeronautiques = aeronautics. Seems like a reasonable spot for a fighter jet to come to rest.”

tutash Says:
March 19th, 2008 at 2:50 pm

A VFW? In my home town, the VFW had a Sabre Jet on the front lawn. What’s the big deal?

rmc Says:
March 19th, 2008 at 2:50 pm

dup

sean Says:
March 19th, 2008 at 3:04 pm

because he/she can

lalligood Says:
March 19th, 2008 at 7:48 pm

You might be able to find a little (but only a little!) information about what you are talking about here: http://googlesightseeing.com/2007/07/18/it-must-be-a-mirage/

HTH,

Mark Preston Says:
March 20th, 2008 at 9:37 am

That is a Mirage fighter jet, that was in commission between 1978 and 2001. It is now decommissioned. If you want a .jpg of it, let me know. It was manufactured by the French company: Dassault. Here is a good photo of that plane in the air.

http://www.globalaircraft.org/planes/dassault_mirage_iii.pl