A firehose of real-time FAA radar data might not sound like the best way to have divined John McCain’s vice presidential pick during last year’s US presidential campaign; better to just cast lots, ...

SOUTHEAST MISSOURI (KFVS) - If you live in southeast Missouri you may recently seen a plane flying at a low altitude, but there is no reason to be concerned. The aircraft is maned by highly trained ...

If you see a small plane slowly flying back and forth at low altitude over Springfield, no need to call Homeland Security. In late winter or early spring — before trees put out their new covering of ...

Satellites, aircraft and scuba divers are creating the first ever high-resolution map of coral reefs throughout the Caribbean region. Layers of data with 10-centimeter (4-inch) resolution will reveal ...

FlightAware slurps up more than 1GB a day in federal radar data in order to map, almost in realtime, every commercial flight in the US. Open source tools provide much of the site's power, but its ...