Man devises genius airplane tracker for his house near LaGuardia Airport

Jeremy Merrill lives underneath a flight path to LaGuardia Airport in New York. Merrill is a curious man

After watching countless planes land at LaGuardia and wondering where they were flying from, the New York Times journalist/developer devised a system to display the plane's origin on his windowsill.

The software he created, called Flyover, basically takes a bunch of information that airplanes are transmitting via their transponders, runs it through a couple different programs, then displays the origin airport of "that plane flying over my apartment RIGHT NOW." Read more...