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St Louis Gateway Arch Aerial and Bird’s Eye View
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! The Arch is known as the “Gateway to the West”. Designed by Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen and structural engineer Hannskarl Bandel, it stands 630 feet (192 m) tall, and is 630 feet (192 m) wide at its base. It [...]
23Jun2008 | Virtual Bird's Eye | 0 comments | Continued
Cedar Fair’s Worlds of Fun Theme Park Aerial and Bird’s Eye Views
Worlds of Fun opened on May 26, 1973, at a cost of 25 million dollars. It was situated at the northern edge of a vast industrial complex developed by Hunt in the bluffs above the Missouri River in Clay County, Missouri. Immediately south of the park is Hunt’s SubTropolis underground business complex.
At the time, [...]
St. Louis Cardinals - Busch Stadium Aerial View
In the mid-1950s, several years after he persuaded the board of directors of Anheuser-Busch to purchase the St. Louis Cardinals, August A. Busch Jr. decided that if the team was to prosper and attract the fans necessary to support a major league franchise, it would have to move to a new stadium.
Mr. Busch took [...]
Kansas City Royals - Kauffman Stadium Aerial View
Location: I-70 & Blue Ridge Cutoff - Site Map
Seating capacity: 40,793
Originally known as Royals Stadium, the facility was officially renamed in honor of Ewing M. Kauffman in a ceremony on July 2, 1993.
It is notable in that it had unique architecture in an era where building multisport “cookie-cutter” stadiums was commonplace. Many consider Kauffman [...]
Thanks for those aerial shots of Augusta National Golf Course, they show a lot of detail, really useful! 
Thanks Malcolm - I'll add that to the post! 
If you like the superdome, feel free to check out the official site as well -- www.superdome.com. 
WOW! Seeing them upclose was nice but seeing the satellite view is very impressive. 
Great post, I really enjoyed it. I will have to bookmark this site for later. 
it's a P-3 Orion subchaser. 