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FilghtAware website tracks flights in realtime

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40hz:
FlightAware is a truly amazing website.

Ars Technica has a writeup including some behind the scenes technical information from the developers.

Link to article: http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/05/monster-mashup-mapping-every-plane-in-the-air.ars

FlightAware is an incredible mashup of radar data, air traffic controller records, flight plans, and maps. Like any great mashup, it provides the public with a new window into an opaque room, and usage has exploded—often in surprising ways. But this is no ordinary mashup; FlightAware sucks in more than 1GB of new data every day, tracking almost every commercial flight in the US almost in real-time, and maintaining a historical database that now tops 60 million flights.
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This is a reduced image of flights surrounding Bradley International Airport in my home state.



And here's a friend of mine's flight out of there today as he heads off to Minn/StPaul International on business. 8)

(Safe trip, Mike! :Thmbsup:)



Link to FlightAware: http://flightaware.com/

suleika:
I wonder if there's a UK or European version of this...

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