This week's amazing link is called the Flight Tracker
and it lets you see airplanes in flight on your computer screen.
 
 

First, go to THIS LINK
In the section that says "track a random flight"
click in the button that says "graphical version"
and then click the "track flight" button
You'll soon see the speed, the direction, and the altitude (or height)
of one randomly chosen flight that is now in the air.
 Below that you'll see an animation that shows
where on the map that plane is.
If you watch for a few seconds you'll see the plane in the picture
is moving just like the real airplane it is describing!
 

You probably see more exactly where the plane is
than anyone who is a passenger on that plane can tell.
Some coast-to coast flights are now showing this same
Flight Tracker of their plane to the passengers on board!

If you go back to the first Flight Tracker page
and look further down you'll see you can even ask
Flight Tracker to show you a particular airplane
in flight that YOU choose.
But you have to know which airline and
which flight number is flying right now.

The next time someone in your family flies to or
from Richmond Airport, find out their flight number
and check them on Flight Tracker!

This Web page created by Dan Ream and Lucretia McCulley
for Mary Munford School