I'm looking at the approach end of 9L at Heathrow on Google Earth.
Look right over the numbers, then look back a few hundred feet.
I guess they have different separation rules over there.
The second aircraft ,the one not over the numbers looks just like the one on
Google maps.
Take a look at the same location on
www.maps.google.com and you'll see that
the second
aircraft is exactly over the same patch of farm as the other image on Google
earth.
As you'll notice between the two images, one does not have the plane over
the numbers.
The only explanation I can come up with is that it is two separate images
taken at different
times then pasted / blended together.
David
KORL