Trying to make sense of an aircraft’s movements during a conflict?

[bellingcat@mstdn.social]

Trying to make sense of an aircraft’s movements during a conflict? Context is everything. That’s why we built Turnstone, an open source tool that searches historical flight data to allow researchers to explore flight patterns over time and in specific locations. https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2026/03/05/turnstone-flight-tracking-tool/?utm_source=mstdn
For example, flight data before both the June 2025 and February 2026 strikes showed a uniquely large number of American aerial tankers leaving the US and crossing the Atlantic towards Iran.

[mndell@mastodon.social]

@Bellingcat see also @opensky monitoring a specific airspace, it also showed more military flights (RCH)

[hnapel@mastodon.social]

@Bellingcat

I setup a feed from NL to the adsblol servers, they copied the adsbexchange code verbatim but they should elaborate a bit on the setup, it was something of a puzzle to say the least.

Also they manage to annoy the openstreetmap people, while their use is generally permissive they are showing tiles saying 'access blocked' instead of map tiles.

ADSB.lol

open data, unfiltered flight tracking

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