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  2. Aircraft spotting - Wikipedia

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    Aircraft spotting, or planespotting, is a hobby consisting of observing and tracking aircraft, which is usually accomplished by photography or videography. Besides monitoring aircraft, planespotting enthusiasts (who are usually called planespotters) also record information regarding airports , air traffic control communications, airline routes ...

  3. Aircraft recognition - Wikipedia

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    Royal Observer Corps aircraft spotters during World War II. It was the creed of the British War Department and the Air Ministry, at the start of the war, that accurate recognition of high-flying and fast-moving aircraft was not possible. The spare-time volunteers of the Observer Corps disagreed and between 1938 and 1939 they started developing ...

  4. Ground Observer Corps - Wikipedia

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    But they need the help of an active and alert Ground Observer Corps to spot low-flying enemy planes that might sneak under our radar network. So, if you are not already one of the 300,000 civilian volunteer plane spotters in the Ground Observer Corps, join now. Remember, so long as the Iron Curtain exists we must always be on guard.

  5. 'Stop, stop, stop': Air traffic control intervenes as planes ...

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    Plane spotter Kevin Ray, who created the YouTube channel where the video was posted, can be heard exclaiming with surprise. "Wow! In the years I've been doing this, I've never heard a ATC ...

  6. Aircraft Warning Service - Wikipedia

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    The Aircraft Warning Service (AWS) was a civilian service of the United States Army Ground Observer Corps instated during World War II to keep watch for enemy planes entering American airspace. It became inactive on May 29, 1944.

  7. Aircraft marshalling - Wikipedia

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    A long exposure of a United States Navy Landing Signalman Enlisted (LSE) directing a SH-60F Sea Hawk to take off using marshalling wands. Despite efforts to standaridize aspects of aviation communication, such as terminology and language, hand signals used to guide aircraft on the ground still vary between various major organizations, such as the International Civil Aviation Organization [3 ...

  8. NYCAviation - Wikipedia

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    NYCAviation.com is an aviation enthusiast and plane spotting community and resource website, founded by Phil Derner Jr. on August 31, 2003. It sprung from an email newsletter started by Derner in July 2002 called Aireola Aviation, sent to a group of local friends to give them a heads-up on upcoming unique aircraft visitors and happenings from the previous week. [1]

  9. Going to the Indy 500? Here's a printable map of ... - AOL

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    From entrance gates to parking areas, here's a printable map of IMS for race day.