This is an FAA radar track sequence of FedEx planes avoiding a storm as they approach the Memphis airport.
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This is an FAA radar track sequence of FedEx planes avoiding a storm as they approach the Memphis airport.
Takes me back to my days wrangling radar imagery for a weather systems company.
The red dot is a very, very, very bad place to be, if you’re an airplane, or in one.
Dang, how many fedex planes fly in there in a given day? Off to Teh Google!
All of them. Well, not quite all of them anymore, but most packages go through Memphis for sorting. Send a package from NY to Boston? The package is going to Memphis first.
Working the cargo ramp was a good job for college students back in the day. It’s only a few hours every night and they paid a high rate for something a college student could do stoned. Back in pre 9-11 days, one of my friends would jumpseat every weekend to go see the Dead. Don’t know if they allow that now, but I’d be surprised.