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Airplane Flight Patterns over the USA

apod.nasa.gov — What are these Earthlings going? Millions of people move about planet Earth by airplane every day. Hundreds of thousands of airplane flights take place over the US every day. A dramatic graphical depiction of these flights was created by Aaron Koblin and is shown above. Clicking on the above image will bring up a movie in many web browsers, a movie

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  • awuwish, on 04/29/2008, -0/+2Wow, I knew there were a lot of airplanes flying each day, but not 15k+. Even with each plane 75% full, thats still....well, that's a bunch of people. Not a good picture for conservationists =/
  • killbert24, on 04/29/2008, -0/+2The east gets all the action.
  • deldigger, on 04/29/2008, -3/+1Video is from March 2005.
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    • Cederosa, on 05/06/2008, -0/+1It was just posted on APOD, or do you really think that flight patterns have changed drastically in the last 3 years?
  • huntdawumpus, on 04/29/2008, -0/+0Very cool.
  • jakash, on 04/29/2008, -0/+1I thought the P in APOD stood for picture?
    Nevertheless, this was an interesting video to watch... maybe they should make an AVOD...
    Not the best picture to see blown up on my desktop first thing in the morning...
  • sylved, on 04/29/2008, -0/+1I thought the A in APOD stood for astronomy. What does this have to do with the study of the stars and cosmos? Maybe APOD stands for Airplane Picture of the Day!
  • BuzzDiggity, on 04/30/2008, -0/+1man., i want to be a pilot so bad i can taste it!
  • fidozombie, on 04/30/2008, -0/+0Hundreds of thousands of flights over the US every day? That sounds doubtful.
    The number of air traffic controlled flights (from the air traffic controller's web site) is about "87,000 flights per day, 28,537 commercial flights (major and regional airlines), 27,178 general aviation flights (private planes), 24,548 air taxi flights (planes for hire), 5,260 military flights and 2,148 air cargo flights (Federal Express, UPS, etc.)."
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