Aaaron Koblin used FAA data to build
animations which help visualise a day's worth of flight traffic over the United States.
It is quite stunning and mesmerising.
Expansion of the systems that support flight travel have not kept up with the demand. There are serious issues in efficiency and safety.
The Economist writes:
So far this year, the number of flights arriving on time at the country's 32 busiest airports is turning out to be the worst on record. One in four arrives late enough to miss a connection.
The airlines blame crowded skies, bad weather, extra security measures and government meddling. Actually, weather and security problems between them account for less than 4% of delays. If truth be told, the main culprits are airline management and staffing problems (23%), aircraft not departing (for various technical reasons) on time for their destinations or being held up en route (30%), and the antiquated air-traffic control system (34%).
To add to the issues NASA buried an eleven million dollar report on air traffic safety when it discovered serious issues relating to flight travel. The reason it was withheld was, "affect the public confidence in, and the commercial welfare of, the air carriers and general aviation companies." Which is irresponsible from a government department that has performed an empirical study.
The
fine line of air-travel routes for a day in the life of the global economy. They are quite beautiful stenographic examples of emergent behaviour in their arcing routes.
Previously, Aaron Koblin made
animations of flight traffic across the US. The recent high fuel prices and a souring economy have left the airlines in
a wait and see mode.
Historically when demand dwindles, airlines offer new flights and cheap tickets to lure travelers from competitors. But this time, with a number of seats going empty as the economy sours, airlines continue to pare flights from networks that by the end of the year will already have shrunk in number of seats more than 10%, compared with last year.
Like most individuals and businesses there is a large element of uncertainty where the economy is heading and what is going to happen over the next twelve months.
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Most Popular Restaurants in Phoenix
Phoenix Eats Out is the restaurant review site for
Phoenix,
Scottsdale and
Old Town Scottsdale which lists the modernist and contemporary restaurants, taverns and bars in the greater Phoenix area.
This is the list of the most popular restaurants pages from phoenixeatsout.com that have been viewed the most;
My personal favourite restaurants in Phoenix are
AZ88,
Postinos,
Bomberos with
Grazie,
Humble Pie,
Orange Table,
The Vig,
Fez and others coming close behind. View the complete list with the photo-journalistic style images on
phoenixeatsout.com
Most Popular Hikes in Arizona
Arizona is an outdoor state and has lots of hiking in the city and around the state. Phoenix is unusual for most cities in having several large mountains in the center of the city with great hiking. Anyone who comes to Phoenix has to do the
Echo Canyon trail on Camelback and the
Summit Hike on Squaw Peak or Piesta Peak. The views of the city, suburbs and surrounding mountains are wonderful from Camelback and Piesta Peak.
For more experienced hikers there is the McDowell Mountains in North Scottsdale that has several difficult and strenuous hikes in
Tom's Thumb and
Bell Pass. Alternatively, you can hike the highest mountain in Arizona. At 12,600 feet
Humphrey's Peak is a long and difficult hike.
Alternate Australian Constitutions
Between 2004 and 2009 this site,
southsearepublic.org, was a constitutional blog based on scoop which focused on Australian and global constitutional issues.
One of the strongest aspects of it was the development of constitutions by those involved in the blog. These constitutions are the outcome:
The constitutions were built using principles from Montesquieu's separation of powers, the enlightnment's universal political rights and the ancient Athenian technology of sortition and choice by lot.
Archives For South Sea Republic
South Sea Republic started in 2004 as an Australian constitutional blog in 2004 based on scoop software. It was an immigrative outgrowth of Kuro5hin. The archives for each year since then;
The articles are ordered by views.
Who Is Cam Riley
I am an Australian living in the United States as a permanent resident.
I am a software developer by trade and mostly work in Java and jump between middleware and front end.
I originally worked in the New York area of the United States in telecommunications before moving to Washington DC and
working in a mix of telecommunications, energy and ITS. I started my own software company before heading out to
Arizona and working with Shutterfly. Since then I have joined a startup in the Phoenix area and am thoroughly enjoying myself.
I do a lot of photography which I post on this website, but also on flickr. I have a photo-journalistic website which lists
the modernist and contemporary restaurants in phoenix. I have a site on the
Australian Flying Corps [AFC] which has been around since the 1990s and which I unfortunately
lost the .org URL to during a life event; however, it is under the
www.australianflyingcorps.com URL now.
The AFC website has gone through several iterations since the 90s and the two most recent are
Australian Flying Corps Archives(2004-2002) and
Australian Flying Corps Archives(2002-1999) which are good places to start.
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