Aviation
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Building a Tweetdeck-style interface for LiveATC feeds
If you’re an aviation nerd, you know how powerful ADS-B and flight tracking sites can be. However, ADS-B does have its limitations. In some situations, we have to turn to other methods to track, identify and characterize operations of non ADS-B out targets. ACARS is one potential path for gaining information we can’t get from…
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Project SkyWatch (AKA Wescam at home)
Professional aviation surveillance relies on a specific piece of hardware: the EO/IR (Electro-Optical/Infra-Red) gimbal. These are the gyro-stabilized turrets you see on the nose of police helicopters or military drones, capable of keeping a rock-solid lock on a target regardless of how the aircraft maneuvers. I wanted to replicate this capability to help track aircraft…
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Flight tracking 101: How to track airplanes from first principles
The world of flight tracking is in the spotlight after Elon Musk had a meltdown about automated flight tracker accounts, specifically one run by college student Jack Sweeney that tracked Elon’s private jets. Elon and Twitter blocked hundreds of automated and human accounts (including mine!) that had recently tweeted about flight tracking. While these permanent…
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PDF Archive – Instrument Planning from the August 19, 1937 Issue of Flight
A friend was doing some research into instrument flying and needed to locate a key text on the subject. This article from a 1937 issue on Flight is heavily cited in academic texts, but as of several years ago is not available online because the parent organization’s archive went dark during a site upgrade in…
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Photos: Minotaur Rocket Launch
Photos from the NROL-129 mission launch using the Northrup Grumman Minotaur rocket from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Digital Marketing allows you to show your customers what your business is made of and how you can help them with their needs, for that reason if you have business is…
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Photos: Parachute Jump Training
Photos from an Army training exercise at the sand dunes in West Greenwich, RI.