Going on 15 years ago, I built an APRS airplane flight tracking tool . It was a lot of fun. I got to watch a variety of acrobatic airplanes via their flight paths and Google Earth. Here's an example. The app has been defunct for several years, first becuase Google cut Google Earth Web API support, and then because I didn't have the time to maintain the APRS screen scraper behind the tool. This week though, I learned about ADS-B , a different airplane tracking RF protocol. With any luck, I'll crank out a demo later this week using CesiumJS and the ADS-B Exchange API .