I’ve been playing with Google Earth and its ability to display 3D visualizations of aircraft in flight in real time over Halifax and over Vancouver. So I happened to be looking up an aircraft tail number in the Canadian Civil Aircraft Register and took a moment to look at their advanced register search. One of its options is to search Canadian Aircraft by category, the choices being; Aeroplane, Airship, Balloon, Glider, Gyroplane, Helicopter and Ornithopter.
Waaaaaait a minute, Ornithopter? The flapping wings contraption that we see guys jump off hills and buildings injuring themselves severely in fuzzy old movie clips? I’m curious if this is some kind of internal humour at Transport Canada or there happens to be a need to register Ornithopters in Canada.
That’s hilarious
Which begs the question, how does one get training and license to be a private ornithopter operator?
I don’t think there are any schools, it must be a Jedi like thing you need a ornithopter mentor for.
Hey. I was intested in the Google 3-D aircraft visualization software. Can you post a link to it?
Sounds like the perfect way for me to increase my procrastination time.
Take a current flight number and search for it here:
http://fboweb.com/
The result will give you a current flight path file in 3D that updates.
There can be some tricks to getting a correct flight name, like many Air Canada flights that appear as ACxxx actually require JZAxxx the prefix for Jazz. Westjet flights often are listed as WJxxx when you need to use WJAxxx but you catch on to it. You can get flights into Halifax from the Airport website although getting current flights that include Europe to US that fly over Halifax can be gotten by clicking on the upper right hand map here:
http://flightaware.com/live/airport/CYHZ