Flight Simulator hidden in Google Earth
Filed in archive Newsdesk 2.0 by S.M. Schrama on September 3, 2007

Google Earth, the program you install on your computer to explore the earth, has a nice little "easter egg" built in : A fully working flightsimulator. The game was first discovered by a blogger from South Africa, who immediately revealed the game on his blog.
Just as he says on his blog, Google is wellknown for releasing data without ever saying a word about it. Apparently he was unable to find anything about the hidden game in Google Earth.
It's not in the release notes and a search on Google produces no results. Seems Google have done one of their unpublicised updates they're becoming well-known for.
The game exists only in the latest version of Google Earth. On a mac, press control+a to start the game. On windows you can start it by typing Ctrl+Alt+A.
I wonder what else Google has hidden in unexpected places....
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