[ale] A picture is worth a thousand questions

[Jim Popovitch]

While gmap'ing over the ATL airport yesterday I noticed that you can see
3 planes in position over runway 8R (northside takeoff).  If you click
the URL below you will see one plane that has just departed.  If you
navigate to the left you will see one plane that has just left the
concrete, and move further to the left you will see one plane beginning
it's take-off roll.  Clearly this would be an FAA violation.  So, since
all three planes look identical in the pictures, it is safe to assume
they are all the same plane.

So a few questions to ponder:

 -Is it safe to assume the camera is moving west to east?
 
 -Take off speed would be about 150 mph (Sega Airlines ;-) so 
    how fast is the camera moving?  

-The satellite image captures frames as it passes over earth, 
    why does it not show 2 slow moving planes/objects on top of 
    each other?  (see cars/trucks on nearby expressways)

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=33.647346,-84.401629&spn=0.007221,0.006866&t=k

-Jim P.