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02 November 2005

Incredible visualizations of aircraft in flight

post by: killdevil at: 22:33 | 7 comments

These are all Quicktime, for those of you who are bereft thereof.

posted by killdevil 02 November | 22:36

Wow!

posted by orthogonality 02 November | 23:56

Cool. I just had a massive Missile Command flashback.

posted by trondant 03 November | 00:13

Awesome. I know an ATC and once had a tour of the Chicago Center, including a "nerve center" computer display that had a cool light-pen interface with zoom in/out and overlays for weather, airport closures, and every single airplane in flight across North America, the Atlantic, and most of Europe was "click-addressable" for its flight information.

posted by stilicho 03 November | 02:44

I'd be interested to be able to view a particular day's snapshot. Say, 11 September 01.

posted by terrapin 03 November | 09:03

That's probably the only one that would look different from any other.

(Well, OK, Katrina and other weather affects things too.)

posted by stilicho 03 November | 15:55

killdevil, I don't know how I missed this post earlier, but this is awesome, thanks!

posted by Frisbee Girl 03 November | 16:14

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