All Aboard: Google Earth Has Just Made Its Flight Simulator Freely Available On Desktop...Buckle up for some turbulence.

A cruise over the Grand Canyon using Google Earth's Flight Simulator, screenshotted shortly before crashing. Image credit: Google Earth (data: Google, Landsat/Copernicus / Airbus Data SIO, NOAA, U.S. Navy, NGA, GEBCO / LDEO-Columbia, NSF, NOAA) ============================================================================ Google Earth has just made its "Flight Simulator" freely available in web browsers for everyone. Here's how you can use it in just a few clicks. Launched on June 12, the tool allows anyone with access to Google to control a plane from a cockpit-view over the 3D landscapes and cityscapes of Google Earth. The simulator was previously hidden inside the downloadable Google Earth...