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Courtesy NASA FACET is a simulation tool for exploring advanced air traffic management concepts. An efficient and effective air traffic management system is vital to the US transportation infrastructure. Since 1978, when the airline industry was deregulated, the inflation adjusted gross domestic product (GDP) has increased by 62 percent. In this same time period, total output of scheduled passenger air transportation (as measured by Revenue Passenger Miles) has increased by 190 percent and total airfreight ton miles have increased by 289 percent. Since 1997, flight delays have skyrocketed – doubling in only four years. These trends are expected to continue. In 1998, airline delays in the US cost industry and passengers .5 billion — the equivalent of a 7 percent tax on every dollar collected by all the domestic airlines combined.
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There are lots of ways to tour the Holy Land. Motor coach and car are the most popular. But if you really want an intimate view of these historic lands – and you’re up to it – bicycling might be your best bet. Feel the change in temperature as you climb an ascending road, smell the land as it transitions from desert to fertile soil. Be you a hard-core cycling aficionado or just a casual cyclist, you know what we’re talking about. Bicycling remains the closest thing on earth to flying.
And the Holy Land, according to many, remains the closest thing to heaven. Thus a set of new ‘Biking the Path of Jesus’ treks. These cycling sojourns are bookable as either two-day or week-long deals. Depart from northern Israel, from places with names that jump out of the Bible and into real-life relief, names such as Nazareth. Then, peddle the paths leading to Mounts Carmel, Gilboa and Tabor. Ride on through the rolling, redolent hills and olive groves encircling Kibbutz Lavi.
Choose the two-day adventure and start out from Kibbutz Lavi. Then, travel through the Horns of Hattin fort and on to the Druze pilgrimage site at Nebi Swe’be. From there it’s on to the Arbel Valley, the immortal Sea of Galilee and Capernaum.
That’s the two-day foray. The week-long tour is a trek better suited for advanced cyclists. Go from Mount Herman in the north to Mount Carmel near Haifa, then on through Ceasarea, Jerusalem and Masada. Experience the Holy Land this way, up close and intimately, and nothing else quite measures up.
Israel’s Commissioner for Tourism puts the proposition succinctly: “The new bike tours around Galilee are a new and innovative way to experience Christian holy sites,” says Haim Gutin.
For more information on particulars contact Genesis Cycling or Gordon Active.
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reminds me of ants
High tech equipment
I dont Know
how do they not run into each other????
i’m lost
My exact comment, but you took the words out of my keyboard 1 year before I saw this video!
…it would be really neat to see a national map of *hang glider* air traffic! Most of that would be concentrated around flying sites, aerotow fields, ridges, certain mountains, etc.
Absolutely amazing, looks like art.
EXCELLENT video, thanks for posting!!
looks like sperm…
That’s hilarious
lol
Aircars.
LOL. At 2:05 on the far right it looks like a plane spins around a few times and vanishes into the sea.
Really puts the odds into perspective. I’ll think of this next time I’m scared to fly.
Thanks to RVSM!
look at bermuda triangle
VERY interesting video. Science is awsome, making us able to get this far
What about the Bermuda Triangle? Is one a secret place there as well. Pretty cool animation.
nice
people who want a high paying job with little schooling.
the closest thing to what you are saying would be the grounding of all aircraft right after 9/11.
im working towards becoming a air traffic controller
is this including tinky 172′s and cherokees?
For a guy writing “fact” in all-caps everywhere in his post, you should know that the majority of overseas flights are accomplished by smaller aircraft than 747′s, not “or larger” (of which there is only 1 type of) aircraft. 777′s, 767′s, A-330′s/A-340′s do a majority of the grunt work, then 747′s, and a small handful of the larger A-380′s. Oil is not endless, but a drastic, near-immediate, and expensive shift to insufficient alternative energy would crush the world economy.
now try to understand that each international flight which is a 747 or larger is burning over 45,000 gallons per flight….FACT……which is what the average joe with a pickup truck burns in 33 years…FACT…..Boeing 747 weighs 1 million pounds at takeoff and must weigh less than 640,000 pounds in order to land translating to 360,000 pounds of fuel divided by about 8 pounds per gallon = 45,000 gallons. this is just 1 flight. keep telling yourselves oil is endless…LMFAO…………………