Posted on 09/24/2017 1:44:13 PM PDT by SamAdams76
Perfect day here in Connecticut. Just sitting on my back deck and not watching NFL football. Bonus summer day even though it's officially Autumn now. Yesterday I had gone to the Big E fair in Springfield, MA and ate pounds and pounds of deep-fried things that I never should have eaten. But at least I washed it all down with beer and cider.
Mowed some lawn which is surprisingly still lush and green for this time of year. Some leaves are falling but not many.
But what I did mostly was look up at the deep blue skies where I saw plane after plane passing overhead at 35,000 feet. Skies are so clear that I can make out the entire plane with the naked eye and white contrails flowing behind it. These planes are 7 miles up in the air!
Now I'm in the flight path sometimes for LaGuardia and those planes are usually about 15,000 feet up with no contrails but I pretty much know where they are going. Also get some local traffic to the smaller private plane airstrips in the area. But I never realized there was so much action at 35,000 feet.
I often wonder where those planes are going. And where they are coming from. And who is up on those planes? Might be long forgotten about friends and family members. Might be a celebrity like Pat Benatar or Bobby Orr, the hockey player. Who knows who is up there in those airplanes just 7 miles over my house? Could be anybody, right?
I fly often myself and like to get the window seat where I can gaze down at the ribbons of highway from 35,000 feet up, trying to make out landmarks and such. Hard to do at such heights but every now and then, I'm able to pick out something that I recognize like the skyline of Charlotte, NC or one of the Great Lakes in the midwest. It's fun to look down from that height. Especially when I'm coming over the Rocky Mountains on an intercontinental trip or flying to Hawaii in which I like to be the first one to spot the tiny islands way off in the distance.
But anyhow, I wish there was a way I could figure out information about those airplanes flying so high over my house.
Install Plane Finder and point your phone at it.
Probably nonstop flights from European cities to Chicago or LA.
On the way to San Jose!
Careful; chemtrails.....
Yup, there’s an app for that... More than one, in fact.
“Take this plane to Cuba!”
More info at GeoEngineeringWatch.com
Soon there will be an app for everything.
Indeed. for those who's life does not center on a fancy cell phone.
Just say to Siri: “Flights overhead”
or...
Create your own radar(google SDR ADS-B).
Is that the persecuted NFL escaping the horrible tortuous USA? I hope they land safely...
Oh sure, there’s apps for that.
But it’s more fun to imagine.
I traveled for years about 20 years ago. I really enjoyed being in the air and trying to identify what I saw on the ground. Flew out of Chicago for many years. Flying over Lake Michigan was always pretty cool because as a teen and early twenties I belonged to a club that sailed the MANATRA, a decommissioned Coast Guard cutter that was 125’ long. We’d sail around Lake Michigan to Grand Haven, South Haven and Traverse City. It’s awesome to see Sleeping Bear Dunes from the sky.
One thing about me, if the flight was smooth I could never sleep. If it was rough I’d fall asleep in minutes. This was before electronics so I always had at least two books with me. Almost always some thriller. I must have read five or six hundred books over the years.
I can’t imagine being a regular flier now. It used to be fun. No TSA goon patting you down. Heck, when I started traveling non ticketed people could still meet you at the gate. I forget when that changed but it was a long time ago.
Yeah, I watch those planes from my yard in southern CT and wonder the same things.
Once I was on a plane and Jesse Jackson was aboard. There was only about thirty people on it. What a conundrum. I wanted the plain to crash but I was on it.
Some how I found that site disturbing. All those planes in the air at the same time! It is amazing to think we don’t have more accidents.
It is also amazing to consider what Air Traffic Controllers did on 9/11
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