This is interesting. I would suggest reading the below write-up before going to the video. WORLD AIR TRAFFIC - VIEW FROM SATELLITE This is pretty amazing! It only takes a couple of minutes to watch and I bet you'll watch it a second time. YOU MIGHT WANT TO READ THIS BEFORE OPENING THE ATTACHMENT This is a 24 hour observation of all of the large aircraft flights in the world, condensed down to 1 minute 11 seconds . From space we look like a bee hive of activity. What you will see is a video showing air traffic around the world for 24 hours taken from a satellite. You won't believe this! The yellow dots are airplanes in the sky during a 24 hour period. Stay with the picture. You will see the light of the day moving from the east to the west, as the Earth spins on it's axis. Also you will see the aircraft flow of traffic leaving the North American continent and traveling at night to arrive in the UK in the morning. Then you will see the flow changing leaving the UK in the morning and flying to the American continent in daylight. This is something that everyone should see. For us old-timers it is really fascinating. For our children or grandchildren it provides a superb learning moment and an opportunity to open up what could be a very interesting discussion. This is one of the best learning tools I have ever seen. It surpasses the "World At Night" poster that NatGeo (I think) published about 20 years ago. How many people do YOU think are in the sky at any given moment? You can tell it was spring time in the north by the sun's foot print over the planet. You could see that it didn't set for long in the extreme north, and it didn't quite rise in the extreme south. I have never seen this before. We are taught about the earth's tilt and how it causes summer and winter, and we have had to imagine just what is going on. With this 24 hour observation of aircraft travel on the earth's surface we get to see the daylight pattern move as well. Remember watch the day to night. Day is over in Australia when it starts.
There are a number of originating, and landing flights in the world to see. If some one wants to know where the fuel goes, look at Americas landing and originating flights. Pep
