Maglev
Conductor
When I hear an airplane flying over, I like to know what kind of plane it is, and where it's coming from and going to. I use FlightAware, which identifies all commercial traffic and some smaller planes. It identifies Canadian military flights, but not US military flights.
The vast majority of jets flying overhead where I live are 737's going from Vancouver, Canada, to someplace warm. Although there are occasional CRJ- and Embraer-type planes, I have NEVER seen an Airbus. The below screenshot is typical: Westjet flight 2060 from Vancouver to Los Cabos, Mexico, a 737-800, climbing from 18,100 feet at 482 knots: (my home is right below the last zero in "18100"):
I found this photo in a random article about QANTAS. I think it might be a photo Boeing took for the airline, perhaps pre-delivery (and maybe their first 787?) It shows my home island in the background; that lake visible beneath the plane is whence I get my drinking water, and my house is in the forest:
I am amazed by the number of international flights that fly high overhead. Singapore to New York, Seoul to Atlanta, freighter from Shanghai to Memphis... it almost seems as if flights are routed over this corner of the country to avoid Canadian airspace. We also get the world's biggest plane overhead occasionally, as seen in the screenshot below (there's also a Canadian fighter jet in the lower left, north of Victoria):
The vast majority of jets flying overhead where I live are 737's going from Vancouver, Canada, to someplace warm. Although there are occasional CRJ- and Embraer-type planes, I have NEVER seen an Airbus. The below screenshot is typical: Westjet flight 2060 from Vancouver to Los Cabos, Mexico, a 737-800, climbing from 18,100 feet at 482 knots: (my home is right below the last zero in "18100"):
I found this photo in a random article about QANTAS. I think it might be a photo Boeing took for the airline, perhaps pre-delivery (and maybe their first 787?) It shows my home island in the background; that lake visible beneath the plane is whence I get my drinking water, and my house is in the forest:
I am amazed by the number of international flights that fly high overhead. Singapore to New York, Seoul to Atlanta, freighter from Shanghai to Memphis... it almost seems as if flights are routed over this corner of the country to avoid Canadian airspace. We also get the world's biggest plane overhead occasionally, as seen in the screenshot below (there's also a Canadian fighter jet in the lower left, north of Victoria):
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