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Flight data and trajectories of aeroplanes

POSTED BY: Marco Thiel
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POSTED BY: Jofre Espigule-Pons

Dear Jofre,

thank you for your words.

I had also thought about using Wolfram Alpha, but I had trouble extracting the data. Also, commands like 

==flights over Aberdeen

do not seem to work very well for many places in Europe. It would be fantastic if we could complement the data with W|A data. I don't know how to do that.

Cheers,

Marco
POSTED BY: Marco Thiel

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

I was always doing this manually use ViewAngle, and ViewPoint... Thanks for the tip!
POSTED BY: Sander Huisman

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
POSTED BY: Marco Thiel

Very cool to see how it is done now! Thanks for sharing! I've done this kind of visualizations back in 2009 (i think I was still on Mathematica 6!) with some GPS data I recorded myself in a flight. It sure is now quite a bit easier to work with gps data and maps and so on! 

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Why not use Cases or even FirstCase ? Grounds speeds above Mach 1 do indeed occur because of ~200km/h tailwinds! From the PDF 625 knots seems to be the limit, 697 might also contain measurement errors?
POSTED BY: Sander Huisman
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