September 11: FAA Closure of US Airspace

Although this animation was published 10 years ago, it gives an excellent visual of our airspace as things shut down on 9/11/01. From the description: This animation was created by NASA using FAA air traffic control data from September 11, 2001. It shows the rapid grounding of air traffic across the US, and redirection of incoming international traffic, in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Time is at lower left, number of planes in the air lower right. At 9:06am, FAA issued a ground stop… (www.youtube.com) More...

Thanks for Making ATC Great Again!

Fun little exchange between ATC and N757AF upon the Trump plane's departure (guessing from JFK?) (www.youtube.com) More...

Cold War re-lived (MITO exercise)

B-52G's and KC-135A's from the 416 BMW, at the former Griffiss AFB, NY. I might have lost track but I think I counted (9) B52s and (5) KC135s taking off at MITO (Minimum Interval Takeoff) in the early- to mid-80s. Words usually fail when I try to explain to my kids what the Cold War was about, but I think this exercise puts a pretty good visual to it! Quite a sight to see...! Be sure to read the comments for perspective from a whole bunch of 'old dogs'. (www.youtube.com) More...

Charting the decline in air traffic caused by COVID-19

I've been wondering what this looks like and didn't see anything similar here on FlightAware, so hope it's OK to share this blog post from FlightRadar24 that shows the impact of of CV19 on air traffic around the world. (www.flightradar24.com) More...