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I have a collection of prompts and tools that I give to LLMs to generate daily aviation briefings. The briefings are supposed to be a summary of everything interesting that’s happened in the air in the past several hours, either globally or in a region of interest. The briefings should contextualize aircraft activity in terms of behavioral analysis, historical patterns, geography and current…
Middle East Airspace, February 28 – March 4, 2026 Aircraft tracked via ADS-B over 10 countries from February 28 through March 4, 2026. Charts show unique aircraft per hour, combining data from ADS-B Exchange and airplanes.live. This is an updated version of an earlier post that covered just the day of February 28. By John Wiseman Coverage area Iran Iranian aviation collapsed within an hour…
Middle East Airspace, February 28, 2026 Aircraft tracked via ADS-B over 10 countries on February 28, 2026, the day strikes on Iran began. Charts show unique aircraft per 15-minute interval, combining data from ADS-B Exchange and airplanes.live. By John Wiseman Coverage area Iran ADS-B aircraft over Iran — 15-min intervals, UTC Israel ADS-B aircraft over Israel — 15-min intervals, UTC…
Two projects at the intersection of geospatial data and AI. First, a semantic search engine for aerial imagery, fine-tuned on OpenStreetMap-tagged data. Second, WARP—a custom neural model that learns embeddings of aircraft flight trajectories, trained on roughly a million aircraft tracks. Given any flight path, WARP can instantly retrieve the most similar trajectories from history. It enables…
Just after midnight Eastern Time on July 19, 2024, the enterprise cybersecurity company CrowdStrike YOLOed a software update to millions of Windows machines. Or as they put it: On July 19, 2024 at 04:09 UTC, as part of ongoing operations, CrowdStrike released a sensor configuration update to Windows systems. That sensor configuration update caused the largest IT outage in history. Overnight, about…