In looking at the area covered by the new sat pictures on Google
Earth, I am surprised by how small it is. from lat=38.9520869405,
lon=-119.456244753 to lat=37.9965916667, lon=-118.937121878 is only
about 1800 sq miles. Sounds like a lot on paper, but gliders were
covering 3-4x that amount the same day. Was that all the coverage they
could get, or was there something to indicate that was an area of
focus? His range must have been 50x this area. I would think that
the advantage of an online sat search is that a million eyes could
cover a very large area several times over. Impossible by air.

Matt