Anyone know what these bank trustee planes are all about?
Many airlines have arrangements where banks purchase the planes outright then lease them back in a long-term deal. Helps with airlines finances.
I built a system that takes pictures of all the airplanes that fly over my house
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#12Anyone know what these bank trustee planes are all about?
Many airlines have arrangements where banks purchase the planes outright then lease them back in a long-term deal. Helps with airlines finances.
Isn’t the operator of a flight what shows up in e.g. Flightradar and also what you’d typically be most interested in, rather than the owner of the aircraft?
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#13It's a hell lot of them. Is this typical?
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#14About 5 years ago I started trying to build this exact thing. I wrote some code, printed some gears and attached them to servos, assembled some hall effect sensors onto the whole thing, and then stopped.
I had a camera that I could command to an azimuth and an elevation. I think it was a PlayStation3 pseye camera.
It certainly would not have been able to zoom in to the point that this one seems to be able to.
I was going to use my RTL SDR to listen to the ADSB and mount the whole thing on my roof under a clear plastic dome.
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#16It's a hell lot of them. Is this typical?
I think someone who doesn't have many planes flying overhead is less likely to build such a system.
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#17This is really neat. I've thought about doing something similar, but feared that this is enough information to deduce where one lives. Kudos to the author for not only making this, but also publishing it
You’re not wrong. In 2017, 4chan trolls (in)famously deduced the location of (and defaced) Shia Labeouf’s “HWNDU” flag art/protest project in 37 hours [1] from only a webcam pointed at the sky. Never underestimate the capabilities of bored people on the Internet with an ax to grind. 1: https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/d7eddj/4chan-does-first-...
Arguably more entertaining telling of the story by the Internet Historian: https://youtube.com/watch?v=vw9zyxm860Q
Re: I built a system that takes pictures of all the airplanes that fly over my house
#18It's a hell lot of them. Is this typical?
From my experience you are either under a flight lane and a lot of planes fly over, or none do. There may be some places further north where they are more spread out, but for example I used to live just south of the approach to one of the runways at my city's airport (maybe 10 miles away so the planes were not super low but were already lined up with the runway) and we saw a constant stream of them go by. I really enjoyed it to, there were lots i could identify readily and sometimes an obscure one that I'd jump on flightaware to see what it was. I think this is a cool project and wish I had something similar.
Edit: related, I regularly commuted by plane between two cities, and my parents live out in the country part way between the two. I could regularly see their house out the window of my plane, because by chance one of the flight lanes was just north of them. So they would have have a lot of traffic going overhead, despite being nowhere near an airport. They also have less frequent planes go by on great circle routes to europe, which is probably what you're imagining thinking about seeing planes infrequently.
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#19Hi! I am the guy behind this, awesome to see it posted here. Happy to answer any questions.
To answer a question I saw pop up, I am using the FAA aircraft registration data to pull up the extra information about the planes. It lists who actually owns the plane, vs who is operating it. That is why you see so many banks. Places like Flightaware have much better data, but a pricy to look up.
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#20Any interest in sharing the plane dataset you used to train Azure Custom Vision with others? Happy to host it on Roboflow Universe along with an API to a trained model others can hit to detect planes in images.
We’ve got one detecting planes on the ground but not yet in the air! https://universe.roboflow.com/gdit/aerial-airport