September 11th Airspace Shutdown (Animation)

[timtiggr]

interesting enough - at 0:17 sec. there is a jet leaving oceana - most probably (at about the hight of RDU) with an east-bound-heading MUCH faster than the other dots (mach1 or maybe even mach 2). why is it going there? why so fast? why is the icon off at a certain position but other aircrafts at this point are still visible?

[PhantomDrums917]

Which dot is the one that George Bush used to evacuate Osama Bin Laden's family and wisk them out of the country before the CIA could interview/interrogate them?

[Dillon1108]

@PhantomDrums917 the one that zooms away from north carolina at 0:16

[chlorophylfactor]

neat trick

[HKS134]

where to get that radar

[jamesmcashan1]

thank you "airboyd" for the large video technical resource. some of us work as volunteers, some to death, while some people get paid to do nothing or worse. that world defense system is to protect all people, not special local cadres or wealthy commercial groups. i have plans for generic world internet service, and for compensation and correction for huge mass crimes against the public. i hope violence will not be necessary. - james mcashan for the US Senate

[madzane94]

look to top right.. it's the hijacked plane!

[horizonflyer9]

The fast mover at 0:15 headed east from north carolina was one of the deployed fighters, i remember seeing it in a documentary. Apparently there was so much confusion and the fact that they were using an emergency plan in case of an attack from the west made the fighters go totally in the wrong direction

[horizonflyer9]

Wow...

[averredude101]

anyone see the planes hijacked disappear from the screen?

[TalksWithDirt]

And so America the free died. She killed herself and chose a life of military defeat, bankrupsey, police state, and fear. Farewell America, I've missed you these past 10 years.

[deetjay1]

@TalksWithDirt

I feel your pain friend...Greetings from a not so proud Texan...

[neppy503]

Well trained ants, I say!

[SirMelloFello]

Fast mover at 0:15 from North Carolina :o

[HartsfieldSpotting]

@SirMelloFello lol

[squiddie96]

wow absolutely amazing

[drewren1231]

The lack of jet contrails changed the high and low temperatures by 2 degrees on 9-11.

[HartsfieldSpotting]

@drewren1231 um, there were contrails back then.

[squiddie96]

@HartsfieldSpotting no because of the shutdown there were no contrails...

[HartsfieldSpotting]

@squiddie96 oh i get it

[invisiblecrowe]

@drewren1231 for real?

[xXGOHHH123Xx]

@invisiblecrowe contrails are pretty much just clouds, so without them, yeah the temperature changed a little bit(I think lower?)

[Z0ne5ive]

@drewren1231 - That day was exceptionally clear. I still remember the colour of the sky, how perfectly blue it was. A rare day with not a trace of haze. Typically on days like that you don't see contrails. Having said that, do contrails trap heat like a greenhouse effect, or do they block warming from the sun? I don't know.

[CathayGuy]

Thats incredible 

[arthurmex]

Wow; incredible air traffic, and on earth is not appreciated that movement

[aescobar32]

what happens with all the inbound european flights?

[mooo483]

@aescobar32 I may be wrong but I believe they were diverted to Canadian airports.

That's a very interesting animation.

[soulofastro]

@aescobar32 they all went to canada, if I remember right

[zippyman818]

@aescobar32 Gander International Airport in Newfoundland, Canada played host to 38 airliners, totalling 6,122 passengers and 473 crew, as part of Operation Yellow Ribbon.

[zippyman818]

@zippyman818 As a result of Operation Yellow Ribbon, the first time that Canada shut down its airspace, 255 aircraft were diverted to 17 different airports across Canada.

[luiscurtolo]

its amazing

[4223037]

Looks Like a colony of ants getting exterminated. :P

[FSProfissional]

Wasuup Airboyd? Cool thing