Prepare for takeoff. ✈️ Flight simulator is now available globally on web to all users. https://t.co/hQP0No142P
We've recently added many our most powerful professional desktop features to web. Elevation profiles, new import types, but there's always been one other feature you've been asking us to add to the web version of Google Earth, just for fun...
Where will you fly? Share your best maneuvers, views, and flyovers with us!
Google hid a fully working flight simulator inside Google Earth back in 2007 and never told anyone.
You unlocked it with a secret keystroke: Ctrl+Alt+A. No menu, no announcement. One user stumbled onto it, the combo spread, and it got popular enough that Google made it official the next year. Two planes, an F-16 and a Cirrus SR22, flying over real satellite imagery of the entire planet.
Then it stayed locked inside the downloadable desktop app for 18 years. The browser version was a stripped-down viewer that couldn't run it. Today that changed.
Here is the part that makes it impressive. A flight simulator is the single hardest thing you can ask a 3D map to do. Panning is easy, the software has all the time it wants to load the terrain ahead of you. Flying low and fast strips that away, forcing it to fetch, decompress, and render the world faster than you are crossing it. The hardest possible job for every part of the system at once.
So "just for fun" is carrying a lot of weight in that sentence. Getting this to run in a browser tab is the cleanest proof that the web version finally matches what used to need a desktop app.
The toy is the benchmark.
Spencer Pratt just went NUCLEAR on Karen Bass and Nithya Raman.
He just claimed to have a CAREER ENDING recording of one of them and says they should be worried the FBI is about to bust down their door.
Spencer is not done yet… 🔥
It is a travesty that @IlhanMN is yet to be deported. When I found out that I was being granted my papers to move to the US, I was overcome with joy and gratitude. I work at @umdeclaration because I love, support, and defend American Exceptionalism. She is a viperous fraud who spends all of her time despising America.
🚨 BREAKING NEWS: Tens of thousands of Spencer Pratt voters are now receiving rejection letters from the county clerk saying that their ballots were not counted due to signature irregularities. Yet, Governor Gavin Newsom just passed legislation that would make it illegal for anyone conducting oversight, to contest signatures that they deemed fraudulent. Democrats allow ballots to be signed with an X, a -, or a 🙂 to pass and count, but all of a sudden, only Republican signatures are being flagged for irregularities, rejected, and not counted. 🤔 One of these California Republican voters said that his signature has been on file for over 20 years and there has never been an issue until he voted for Spencer Pratt. Nithya Ramen has beaten Spencer Pratt by less than 3000 votes. There are at least 18,000 Pratt voters who received this letter saying their votes were rejected.
🚨 NEW: Vice President JD Vance GOES OFF on the CALIFORNIA ELECTION RESULTS 🚨
“Republicans are getting kicked out of the final two, so it's a Democrat versus Democrat runoff. That seems PRETTY SHADY to ME”
🚨 JUST IN — IT'S OFFICIAL: Trump-endorsed Steve Hilton ADVANCES in the California governor election, the mail-in ballots are NOT ENOUGH to lock him out
GREAT! Now California MUST be banned from the insane mail-in procedures or this will be even worse during the midterms!
He'll face Xavier Becerra (D).