This is fantastic, always something majestic and curious about planes. How they fly and where they are going. Kudos!
I built a system that takes pictures of all the airplanes that fly over my house
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#122Hi! 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.
would it be possible to pinpoint location of your house? Since we know the paths each of these planes have taken, public record, and although we dont know what time the photos were take we can still come up with range of locations vs time, where these angles would be possible.
so find intersection of all these planes' paths, then using geometry figure out possible locations, then find their intersections..
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#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's no reason to if they are flying with ADS-B transmitting. They're broadcasting their position and will usually appear on FR24 etc. If they are flying without ADS-B (which is legal for the military when needed) they won't be picked up by this system so no filtering needed.
According to [1] it’s not just the military, but “U.S. federal, state and local government aircraft performing sensitive operations” https://www.aviationtoday.com/2019/07/23/new-rule-allows-mil...
Correct, GP asked about military so I mentioned that it's legal for them to turn it off. It's also legal for intelligence, law enforcement, etc -- anything government-related with a good reason pretty much.
Re: I built a system that takes pictures of all the airplanes that fly over my house
#124Hi! 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.
Ok, so how long before someone looks at those flights, times and maps out your exact house address?
Scrambling the time a random amount each flyover could help?
Re: I built a system that takes pictures of all the airplanes that fly over my house
#125Hi! 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.
Very cool. To add some charm to it, set the title to UFO for the unidentified ones :)
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#126Wow there is a plane roughly every 2-3 minutes even at 1 am. You should be living pretty close to the airport for that kind of traffic? I really don't know how about the traffic density is in various places. Since they are mostly over 30k i assume noise is not an issue ? Would it be possible to mount a omnidirectional mic along with the camera to see if you capture any sounds ?
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#127What is the utility of the project? Any use cases?
Also, what if many folks set up the same so that we have full crowdsourced surveillance of aircrafts over various regions, how could this info be used i wonder?
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#128I feel like FBI is gonna be knocking on the door any time now. It'd be cool to calculate the velocity and display that. It looks like one of the planes is specially going fast.
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#129Why are there so many banks with airplanes? Is it to transfer all the gold between their branches?
Re: I built a system that takes pictures of all the airplanes that fly over my house
#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ok, so how long before someone looks at those flights, times and maps out your exact house address?
in grandpa voice Back in my day, everyone’s address was listed in the phone book. If you wanted to remain anonymous, you had to pay a service charge to keep yourself from being listed!
In some places they even listed your job!