I was using Google Earth today to find a new project I am working on. The project happens to be in Kennesaw, Georgia, just north of Atlanta.

As it turns out, I was on the survey crew which laid out the second mainline for the old W&A railroad, which runs through Kennesaw. I followed the tracks back south to Marietta, remembering days gone by spent on a survey crew. It was the middle of winter when we surveyed the track. Very cold and windy!

Anyway, when I got to Dobbins Airforce Base, I took a detour with Google Earth and went for a trip through the airbase. I found this amazing shot:

That my friends is an F-22 Raptor coming in for a landing, with a chase plane behind it. Amazing!

Click here for the Google Earth *.kmz file to find this.

The F-22 is/was constructed at the Lockheed Martin assembly plant at Marietta, Georgia, which is adjacent to Dobbins Airforce Base.