These are contrails over our house and they are "condensation trails" from the water vapor coming out the engines of high flying jet aircraft. So of course many of us look up with a feeling of wanderlust, and wondering where airplanes like this might be going. Well, now there is a simple answer. It is an App (of course) for our cellphones. It is called "Flight Radar 24" and you can get it for free. I will leave out the technical stuff, like it receives ADS-B transmissions from aircraft, showing where they are going, what their altitude is and how fast they are flying. All on our phones
So there are two contrails over our house in the photograph. I watched the first airplane fly over and looked it up on Flight Radar 24, and then when I saw the second airplane fly over I looked that up. So here are the displays for both aircraft. They are both flying at 33,000 feet and doing about 560 MPH. If you look closely you can see the type of aircraft, one a 777 and the other 787 and you can even see what time they will arrive at their destinations! What an amazing thing it is these days to be able to see where airplanes are going!
This is fascinating. Every evening we see planes flying over the house, heading towards Europe or somewhere and I wonder where they are going. What a fun thing to have an app that can identify the plane and where it is headed. I will have to look into this app. The photo is nice. The sunset sky and the trees are beautiful. Trace
ReplyDeleteAmazing technology! You have 2 major airports in NY and a couple in NJ that might pass over your area also. I will have to check out this app. Beautiful photo.
ReplyDeleteThat app is really cool! Nice shot of the contrails over your house.
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