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Seaplane Landing in Lake Union Seattle

Virtual Bird's Eye — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:53:23 +0000

There are a bunch of Seaplanes in Lake Union in Seattle Washington – check out some of these images – click the images for some views of the planes.┬á If you pan around, there are quite a few around – some docked and a couple moving around!

A seaplane is a fixed-wing aircraft capable of taking off and landing (alighting) on water. Seaplanes can be divided into separate categories such as floatplanes, flying boats, and amphibians. These aircraft are occasionally called hydroplanes, a term rarely used in English.┬á Read more at Seaplane – Wikipedia

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Click the below image and then face West

Seattle Seahawks – Qwest Field Aerial and Bird’s Eye View

Virtual Bird's Eye — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 02:09:16 +0000

Qwest Field is a stadium built for football and soccer located in Seattle, Washington, USA. It serves as the home field for the NFL’s Seattle Seahawks, the men’s and women’s Seattle Sounders soccer teams, and will be home of Major League Soccer’s Seattle Sounders FC beginning in 2009. The stadium opened in July 2002 and was built on the site of the Kingdome, the previous stadium for the Seahawks, Major League Baseball’s Seattle Mariners, and several other Seattle sports teams. On March 26, 2000, to make way for the construction of the stadium, the Kingdome fell in the world’s largest implosion of a single concrete structure.Cont – Qwest Field – Wikipedia

Qwest Field

Seattle Seahawks – Home

Seattle Seahawks Team Page

NFL.com – Official Site of the National Football League

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Mount St. Helens Aerial View

Virtual Bird's Eye — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 03:45:55 +0000

Mount St. Helens is an active stratovolcano located in Skamania County, Washington, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is 96 miles (154 km) south of Seattle and 53 miles (85 km) northeast of Portland, Oregon. Mount St. Helens takes its English name from the British diplomat Lord St Helens, a friend of explorer George Vancouver who made a survey of the area in the late 18th century. The volcano is located in the Cascade Range and is part of the Cascade Volcanic Arc, a segment of the Pacific Ring of Fire that includes over 160 active volcanoes. This volcano is well known for its ash explosions and pyroclastic flows.

Mount St. Helens is most famous for its catastrophic eruption on May 18, 1980, which was the deadliest and most economically destructive volcanic event in the history of the United States. Fifty-seven people were killed; 250 homes, 47 bridges, 15 miles (24 km) of railways, and 185 miles (300 km) of highway were destroyed… Read More Mount St. Helens – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument

Mount St. Helens VolcanoCams

Special Thanks to GaveThat for sending this one to us!

NOTE – Make sure and pan a little North to see all the trees still floating in the lakes!

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Link to Live Maps

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More Submarines – Puget Sound Naval Shipyard Aerial View

Virtual Bird's Eye — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 03:53:36 +0000

Thanks for the link by Steve, we have some more pictures of some submarines. Not moving this time, but still quite a few of them.

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UPDATE: I asked the guys over at The Sub Report if they had any information on any of these submarines:

The top looks like Sturgeon Class submarines, Might be a Thresher and Skipjack class in there as well. The interesting sub is in the Top Right that is longer than the other and noticeably different. I’m 99% sure that is the USS Triton SSRN 586 webpage here http://garrygray.tripod.com/triton_home_page.htm
The USS Triton was the first submarine to circumnavigate the globe submerged with The Captian Edward Beach at command.
The bottom photo are 2 Lafayette Class or Benjamin Franklin Class Missile Submarines. 41 for freedom cold war relics like the Grant SSBN 631 and Stimson SSBN 655.

If you pan around a little you can see some decommissioned aircraft carriers there too. Thanks! Keep sending in more links if you have them. Any more subs??

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Seattle Mariners – Safeco Field Aerial View

Virtual Bird's Eye — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 07:00:34 +0000

Ground Broken: March 8, 1997
Grass Installed: May 24, 1999
Inaugural Game: July 15, 1999
Opponent: San Diego Padres
Ceremonial first pitch: Dave Niehaus – Mariners Broadcaster
First Pitch: Jamie Moyer, 7:15pm., called strike
First Safeco Home Run: Russ Davis (July 17, 1999)
First Safeco Grand Slam: Raul Ibanez (July 17, 1999)
Ballpark Square Footage: 1,172,127 Gross Square Ft.
Playing Surface: Grass
Seating Capacity: 47, 116

Seattle Mariners Official Site

Major League Baseball Official Site

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In Flight: Boeing Field International Airport

Virtual Bird's Eye — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 03:16:21 +0000

Small plane to be landing at Boeing Field huh??

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