24 Hours of Air Traffic


Very cool video. I've watched it about a dozen times now. A few notes of interest to me:
  • Watch the air traffic over the Atlantic. All one direction and then the other. Same thing over the Pacific but it's not as dramatic.
  • Keep an eye on the flights over the US at night. Red eye flights are almost exclusively west to east. Movies and TV shows screw this up all the time.
  • Note the huge difference in volume of air travel between night and day. It makes plenty of sense but the look of it is bigger than you'd expect.
  • The exception to that is India. There is some difference but the rate of travel is nearly constant all day. I don't know why this is but it jibes with my booking experiences.

Comments

Brian said…
Very cool! We have this live in the tower! It wont let me put in a link... search youtube
September 11: FAA Closure of US Airspace
8:05 PM
Peder said…
Here is what Heidi is mentioning:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo1ZtpKqlYw
9:25 PM
Hans said…
That is very cool. Who knew that airplanes look like very bright lights when seen from space?
12:19 AM
Peder said…
Hans, that's the release of energy as they re-enter the atmosphere.
6:39 AM
Heidi said…
I realized Brian's comment was quick and left a few things out. We have a view of all the world traffic at any given moment. It is cool!
3:40 AM
Peder said…
Heidi, who flies way up there above the Arctic Ocean?
7:58 AM
Heidi said…
Almost all our flights to Europe go up over the top.
4:00 PM
j said…
That is wicked awesome. One of the coolest things I've seen.
9:03 PM
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