From: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 23:25:57 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: It is getting easier
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[From an infowar article on the list]
>(ENN) A free service called "Flight Trax" is now available on the
>World-Wide-Web.
>This  new information resource allows one to track the progress of any
>domestic airflight within the contigious 48 states.
>
>Call up:  http://www.amerwxcncpt.com/ with your favorite internet
>browser. The program will ask you for the flight number, the airline, 
and the destination airport (using the FAA designated three-letter code). 
>The program will
>then show you the kind of aricraft used, its flight's path, its location
>on that path (accurate to within two or three minutes), and its expected
>time of arrival at its destination. It will not tell you why it may have
>been delayed.
>The information is provided by Flyte-Comm of Ft. Lauderdale, FL, which
>uses data from the FAA to produce the flight estimates.  Might be prove

If I remember correctly, some of the newer transponders used on 
commercial aircraft actually transmit GPS data back to the controller in 
real time. I wonder how long it will be before the FAA will include such 
information in their database.

"To obtain the position of any passenger flight in the US within 10 
meters, click here."

-- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred