[LINK] No-fly zone spoils Google's big day out

[Kim Holburn]

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/01/29/1169919256978.html? 
page=fullpage#contentSwap2

> Scores of Sydneysiders who took up Google's challenge to make a  
> spectacle of themselves in an aerial photo shoot staged over the  
> city on Australia Day are likely to be disappointed.
>
> A plane chartered by Google to take the images never made it over  
> some of the designated areas or arrived hours later than expected   
> by which time, many of those who had been waiting below had moved on.
>
> The high-resolution images were to be added in about four to six  
> weeks' time to the popular online mapping service Google Maps
>
> But the flight plan was hastily changed on Friday morning after  
> Sydney air traffic control denied the twin-engine Aero Commander  
> permission to fly over parks and beaches in inner Sydney and the  
> east due to air safety concerns
>
> Mr Terry O'Connor, a spokesman for Air Services Australia, which  
> oversees air traffic control, said that the pilot was warned when  
> the flight plans were lodged last week that it would be "very  
> difficult or impossible" to give the plane clearance to fly over  
> some of the proposed areas.
>
> He said they were told the flight path would depend on air traffic  
> at the time.
>
> Among those missing out on the photo opportunity of a lifetime was  
> a company that had spent $10,000-plus on a sign, an environmental  
> group which organised 200 supporters to form themselves into a  
> slogan on Bondi Beach and a man who drove from Wollongong to Sydney  
> with a message that he hoped would help win back his estranged wife.


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Democracy imposed from without is the severest form of tyranny.
                           -- Lloyd Biggle, Jr. Analog, Apr 1961





--
Kim Holburn
IT Network & Security Consultant
Ph: +39 06 855 4294  M: +39 3342707610
mailto:kim at holburn.net  aim://kimholburn
skype://kholburn - PGP Public Key on request

Democracy imposed from without is the severest form of tyranny.
                           -- Lloyd Biggle, Jr. Analog, Apr 1961