I found a cool website that tracks the status of flights - http://flightaware.com . I am sure you can find it useful for tracking the flight of you loved one as they were arriving at the airport and time you parking your car in the carpark just as their plane touched down. However, I have found another use for it... tracking the flight testing of Boeing 787 Model Airplanes. It has ZA001-ZA005 daily flights tracked and you can see where they are heading and even what they are up to. The two attached pictures show the flight path, and then speed and altitude for the duration of the flight. This example is ZA005 for yesterday. The more time I spend on this site, the more things I find! Currently, there is a Qantas A380 enroute to Singapore with 3h21m to go, and the scheduled arrival time has been updated several times. It is somewhere over India presently, probably with all the passengers dining or shades down sleeping. The other, and last, amazing thing I want to call out, is the statistics of each flight for the last 2 weeks... you may be able to use this if you are about to fly a particular airline and are setting up meetings at the other end - are they prone to delays? I think I have found my new favorite site!
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