If you've got any reason to assume this may possibly be a crash site, I suggest you inform the people organizing this google earth search rather than waiting for people on BAUT to respond. Just maybe Steve Fossett is sitting there right now waiting to be found, and hours count in that case. They will not sue you if you happen to point out a dead tree or known crash site.

I don't have Gearth, so I can't look now. Maybe posting screenshots is a good idea, so that anyone can look at it. But I'd contact the Gearth search organisation first anyway.

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OK OK! But I don't know where to send it!

Meanwhile, check out this airplane:

Also, you do know that you can download Google Earth for free, right?

And using the mechanical turk thing doesn't require Google Earth, so you can still help out from the comfort of your home in Belgium.

Nice , seems like this is still in the air
BTW : the MechTurk works fine , also in Belgium ; have already crunched about 1000 Hits , but no Steve Fossett found till now .
As I said before , where are the other 400.000 people in order to get the job done ?
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I did about a thousand. You have to be careful to not go to fast. I was going about one every other second, and at that last fraction of a second I thought I saw a wing-like structure, but the mechanical turk won't let you go back to reexamine old hits.

The problem for me is not the technicalities of Gearth or mechanical turk installation, but the simple fact that I'm often working on other people's PC, on which I won't install anything without asking.

It certainly is a plane, appears to be flying unless it crashed really soft . Maybe it was his plane. Anyway, maybe -if you find where- you should report it just to tell them "there's a plane there, appears to be flying, don't know if it's the type Fossett was flying"

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AP: Organizers to Assess Fossett Search [Monday]

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I'm sorry I once compared him to Seto Kaiba. I didn't mean that he was villianous, just that he did lots of things that seem amazing and make us wish we were that rich, not because we want money, but so that we could have those adventures.

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Sadly, soon it may be "all over" but the conspiracy theories.

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I don't think it's a conspiracy; I think his wallet was just too heavy and the plane couldn't handle the payload.

Sorry, couldn't help it. Really do hope that they can find him alive; but I think the chances of that are less than slim. It's tragic, but there's a lot worse things that dieing doing something you love after leading such an exciting and interesting life.

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AP: Search for Fossett in Nevada Cut Back

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AP: New Leads in Search for Fossett

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While Google Earth images are updated fairly regularly for areas of rapid building (neighborhoods) from USGS images to help aid census information, images of rugged mountain terrain might be years out of date unless those who own the satellites and planes searching for Fosset are feeding the information directly to Google Earth.

Unlikely.

Flying over mountainous desert terrain at night is eary. Unless the moon is bright, it's extremely dark. With NVGs, it's highly unlikely Fosset would have been able to even see the desert terrain, much less select a suitable landing site.

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If we halt the ISS, all versions of Ares, and transport Orion and Altair aboard DIRECTv3's Jupiter family of Shuttle-Derived Launch Vehicles, we just might make it back to the Moon by 2020.

DigitalGlobe owns the satellites and are feeding the images to Google.

AP: Google Helps in Search for Aviator

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Not only that possibility, but Nevada is home to a vast array of operational and secret military resources that one might think would be intensively surveilled with the very 'latest and greatest' in technology.
Wonder how things would progress had it been a missing military pilot, vs. a civilian.

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The military pilot would have told everyone where he was going and what route he was taking. Much easier to find that way

3 weeks is a long time...

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Is it long enough that we should stop worrying/praying? It is disheartening, but then I think of Lincoln Hall and...

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Honestly, when we're being realistic:

-the fact that he never managed to set his wristwatch auto beacon, is an indication that there may have been a severe crash in which case he never had a chance.

-the fact that he didn't manage a beacon afterwards could indicate he wasn't capable of doing so, which would extremely limit his chances of surviving 3 weeks

-if he simply can't make a beacon, at least one that is noticed, and he's not significantly wounded, he either couldn't sustain resources in which case he'd have died soon, or he could have managed to find a sustainable way of surviving in which case 3 weeks isn't that long.

So in short, I don't think chances of survival are high, but if he survived say the first 10 days, 3 weeks or a bit more isn't the largest problem. If he was still alive by that time, he knows how to pull it longer too. Certainly Fossett.

I haven't given up all hope, but I don't think chances of finding him alive are high.

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No, not that; what and when did the USAF have their "new leads"?

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Not to be insensitive, but I think it's time to start wondering (aloud) just how many other human beings people would go this far out of their way to try to find.

For a guy who is positioned as somewhere between Bear Grylls and Allan Quatermain, there sure is alot of anxiety.

Articles even mention that in the zealous effort to find this intrepid survivalist, they've stumbled across wrecks they didn't even know about...or assumedly bothered looking for as hard. Nice.

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Nana Mouskouri without glasses is like peanut butter without jelly, like yin without yang, spic without span...

I suppose that's a possibility--and it may be true--but since they haven't found his, maybe the ones that they have found are just like his: they weren't in the place where they were looking before.

So who is the low end of that scale? Grylls or Quatermain?

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AP: Fossett Searchers Think They Have Leads October 1

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That and they're tracked on radar because they're squawking and fly high enough to appear in the IFR system...

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That's aqua.

And I can barely see it. But maybe that's . . .

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Yes. Easier. Why don't you just make it easy?