Animation Illustrates Mass Plane Departures After Super Bowl
Timelapse animation showed the rush to fly out of Las Vegas on February 11 and 12, following the end of the Super Bowl.
A flight radar animation showed a snapshot of departures from Las Vegas airports, including Harry Reid International Airport, Henderson Executive Airport, and North Las Vegas Airport, between 8 pm and 2 am local time from Sunday night to Monday morning, according to Flightradar24.
FlightRadar24 also said a total of 525 business jets departed the Las Vegas area after the game ended.
Eighty-one of those, or 15 percent, made the one-hour flight to airports in the Los Angeles area, while airports in and near New York City saw 33 flights. Thirty flights headed to the Miami area, and San Diego and San Jose rounded out the top five destination cities.
FlightRadar24 said business jets departing Las Vegas after the game flew for an average of 2 hours 1 minute, traveling to 173 airports in 9 countries. The longest journey saw a jet make a 13-hour flight to Ishigaki in southern Japan.
The shortest flight saw a jet spend just 29 minutes in the air, from North Las Vegas Airport to Kingman, Arizona, saving 90 minutes off the estimated travel time by car, according to FlightRadar24.
Credit: FlightRadar24 via Storyful
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List of Australian airports by ICAO and IATA codes
Nevil Shute
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Saving VH-OJH
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Awesome Aircraft Paint Jobs – self explanatory – some very imaginative paint schemes.
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On 25 July 2019 Marty provided an excellent presentation to the Aviation Club about the project to restore VH-RAE to flying status – some of the photos he shared with us are attached below. (Use the pause button on the slide and manually advance with the arrows if the change speed is faster than you prefer.) The slideshow will be updated as VH-RAE continues its journey back to the air.
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Australian Aviation Club speaker named as ‘Iconic Indian Air Warrior’
What’s missing from modern-day air shows
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Click link to download a 100 page history of RAAF Amberley from 1939 to present.
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WW2 Lancaster operations
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Of Sons and Skies
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Lockheed Skunk Works e-book
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Story and 7:03 embedded video
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