Looking to the sky reveals much about what’s happening on the ground

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Aviation June 1, 2026 4 Min Read

Perhaps you should spend a little more time on Flightradar24. Here’s what you might learn...

Every few days or so, I will take a break from work and catch up on the world’s skies. Rather than train my eyes upward, I’ll open Flightradar24, a popular service for tracking anything that humans put into the air. The site is used by everyone from journalists monitoring the airborne movements of deposed potentates to deskbound workers looking for a connection to the outside world. It relies largely on Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B), a satellite-based technology that provides fa...

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