Thursday, July 04, 2019

Travelling man


It's amazing what the internet and tracking technology can achieve these days, above is a (free) live track of a plane flying from London to the USA, the aircraft contains my Son who is visiting an old school friend who now lives there. Of course I'm interested in the progress of this particular flight but there are so many planes in the air at once that you have to use a setting in on this web-site to render them invisible otherwise you can't see the wood for the trees! The track is very accurate too, we were able to predict the exact moment the plane flew over our house (which is near to one of the Heathrow flight paths) and I snapped a picture for posterity (see below)


It's also impossible to point a camera into the sky in the South East of England these days and not snap at least one aircraft passing over somewhere..

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