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Today's 'Even Aerospace Engineers Have a Sense of Humor' Entry
ByCheck out Flight Aware's track of the route of the Boeing Commercial Aircraft Group's flight 236 yesterday. This is the route the plane actually took, as logged by Air Traffic Control radar. Look at it for a minute, if you don't get the point immediately. Hint: the aircraft in question was a "Dreamliner," aka Boeing 787. Another hint is in the upper left hand corner of this page.
I recall a similar flight track a while back by a Boeing 747, without the fancy curvilinear fillip* at the end.
As a feat of flight planning, and of exhaustive Lat/Long entry into the plane's GPS-based autopilots, this is quite something. The coordinates for the route are after the jump, if you'd like to try it yourself (and have a plane with the range of a 787.) Nicely done, and thanks to JDK and TMF for the tip.
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* Yes, I know it's not just a curlicue...
Here is the route that led to the pattern shown by Flight Aware. Aviation buffs will recognize the combination of VORs (ONL, FOD, GYZ, and so on); "normal" fixes (HANKI, ALPOE, and so on); and Lat-Long specifications.
SEA J12 EPH GEG 4733N 11706W 4236N 11831W 4450N 11752W 4414N 11230W 4710N 11126W 4714N 11125W 4730N 11443W 4214N 11629W 4140N 11325W 4714N 11126W 4645N 10711W 4105N 11056W 4405N 10902W CZI KD81U KD72W 4148N 10335W HANKI YANKI ONL 4201N 9830W KP72C CVA 4148N 9034W GIZCY FOD KP81C KP87A ONL ATY 4523N 9711W KP12C 4743N 9843W 4845N 9655W 4755N 9857W KP15A KP06Y 4248N 10523W MBW ALPOE 4026N 10616W KD60U 3947N 10516W DVV KD60W BENNZ KD63W 4027N 10500W 4040N 10510W 4131N 10501W GYZ KD81W 4728N 9907W 4610N 9804W AMMAJ SOBME 4400N 9820W 4324N 9850W ADEDY ANW 4203N 10104W ALU KD75W 4245N 10424W 4333N 10518W 4404N 10552W 4437N 10558W MARLS YAFLU KU15W POVNY KP18Y 4746N 10000W 4742N 9930W 4753N 9901W MIB JINUK LAMBE 4711N 10515W MLS 4603N 10613W FOURS CZI 4406N 10900W 4643N 10703W 4734N 11444W 4439N 11546W MADPE 4733N 11701W SEA
