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FlightAware’s Amazing MiseryMap
That’s FlightAware‘s MiseryMap. Go there now, click on the blue “play” button and watch what happens. If you’re close to now (8:56pm EST), you’ll see what weather does directly to major airports in Chicago, New York and Atlanta, and indirectly … Continue reading
Posted in Aviation, infrastructure, weather
Tagged air travel, airlines, aviation, data, data journalism, data visualization, flightaware, infrastructure, maps, MiseryMap
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Colors of salt
Before the salt in evaporating sea water turns white, it goes through stages of color that range from jade green to brick red, with variations of orange, yellow and other colors. From above the salt ponds around San Francisco Bay … Continue reading
Posted in Photography, Places, Travel
Tagged "salt ponds", "San Francisco Bay", "United Airlines", aerial, aviation, bos-sfo, flight, salt, salt pond, sfo, ual, windowseat, windowshot
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Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge fly-by
The shot above, made on Sunday out the window of a plane on approach to Las Vegas, comes three and a half years after this shot, which I took from the ground at Hoover Dam. Here’s a whole set of … Continue reading
Posted in Past, Photography, Places, Travel
Tagged aerial, Arizona Geology, aviation, Colrado River, Geology, Hoover Dam Bypass, Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge
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A perfect storm in midair
They might have split up or they might have capsized They may have broke deep and took water And all that remains is the faces and the names Of the wives and the sons and the daughters. — Gordon Lightfoot, … Continue reading
Posted in Geology, infrastructure, Life
Tagged Air France, airbus, Atlantic, Atlantic Ocean, aviation, Flight 447, mid-atlantic, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, mountains, perfect storm, Travel
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Window blobs
Form the inside of a de-iced plane, it looks like they poured clear syrup all over it. Or so I was reminded when waiting to take off from O’Hare on Saturday night after a snowstorm. What I found, when I … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Life, Places, Science, Travel
Tagged 2009_02_21, atl-ord-bos, aviation, de-icing, Photography
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USA1549 down but not out
That’s almost as far as it got. From Twitter search: Trending topics: Hudson River, Charlotte, Shorty Awards Finals, A US Airways, New York’s Hudson, LaGuardia, USAirways, Plane, MSNBC, Manhattan From FlightAware: FLIGHTAWARE BREAKING NEWS US Airways flight #1549 (an Airbus … Continue reading
Posted in News
Tagged aviation, Chesley Sullenberger, crash, dead stick, dead stick landing, flight, flightaware, geese, hudson, hudsonriver, plane, plane crash, planecrash, Sullenbergerger, Sully, usa1549
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