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I wonder how low it is, found the shadow of it close by 39.02468482732915, -93.6023120071418 https://www.google.com/maps/place/39%C2%B001'28.9%22N+93%C2%B036'08

• taddeimania 5y ago
  nice catch! I think the altitude could be calculated roughly if we knew the the day of the year the photo was taken.
  • taddeimania 5y ago
    okay so i'm not sure how accurate any of this is since it's overlaying sun angles over a photo that is very likely not taken from a 90deg overhead angle to the bomber... and the scale of the image may be distorted a little... I discovered on google earth that the image was taken May 16th. I used this site http://shadowcalculator.eu/#/lat/39.02397754136213/lng/-93.6001443285912 http://shadowcalculator.eu/#/lat/39.02397754136213/lng/-93.6... to draw a fence around the bomber and defined the "structure" to be an arbitrarily tall height until the sun angle lined up. Then I lowered the height until the sun angle touched the location of the shadow and I came to an altitude of 1100ft / 335.28m (rough height of the "structure")