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UK Airspace Infrastructure – [VISUALIZATION]

26/04/2015 – 20:47

The folks over at the UK’s main air traffic service NATS have provided a superb example of the daily complexity and volumes of air traffic across the UK and Europe.

UK 24 from NATS on Vimeo.

The visualization provides for

a unique view of the holding stacks over London and how they are a fundamental part of the Heathrow operation, providing the constant flow of traffic that makes it the world’s busiest dual runway airport with 1,350 movements a day.

More at NATS blog.

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A Typical Day in the North Atlantic Skies – [TIME-LAPSE]

28/06/2014 – 15:51

The UK air traffic control firm (NATS) have crunched their data on transatlantic flights to produce a stunning visualisation of the “North Atlantic Skies”. The animation covers a typical summer’s day in 2013.

Some statistics from NATS blog post:

  • On a typical July day there are around 30,000 flights across European airspace
  • Approximately a quarter fly within UK controlled airspace
  • The total distance flown by these aircraft is 25 million nautical miles. That’s 998 times around the Earth, or 104 trips to the Moon
  • On 21 June, 5,675 aircraft departed or arrived from UK airports, of which 2,295 departed from or arrived at Gatwick (894) or Heathrow (1,401)
  • 1,532 were overflights
  • The video is 1440x faster than real time

(h/t boingboing)

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