Dear Christopher,

thank you for that hint. It will definitely make the video better! I'll try to run it later.

As a matter of fact, I first wanted to make a video in which the view point changes and not only rotates around the planet but also closes in and moves away again. It would be nice to approach the trajectories of the planes and "fly through beneath them". Some time ago I saw a video on this website (but not the Community) where they explained how to make the "camera" move exactly as one wants.

Cheers,

Marco

Great post and awesome 3D flight visualizations! Thanks for sharing.

W|A also provides a lot of info about flights, at least in the US. For example:

== Flights over Boston

Gives the following W|A result:

And looking closer to one of those flights gives even info about its "Altitude", "Flight Path", "Ground Speed", ...

In particular, I'm interested in getting the "Flight path":

WolframAlpha["United Airlines flight 992", {{"Location:FlightData", 1}, "Content"}]

But my question is the following:

Can one get the coordinates from such a "Flight path" and plot it using GeoPath in GeoGraphics?

Fascinating! Specifying SphericalRegion->True in your animation should keep it from bumping around and zooming in and out.