{"id":6587,"date":"2022-08-04T16:36:43","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T14:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/04\/from-celebrity-jets-to-pelosis-taiwan-trip-flight-trackers-are-the-sleeper-hit-of-the-summer\/"},"modified":"2022-08-04T16:36:43","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T14:36:43","slug":"from-celebrity-jets-to-pelosis-taiwan-trip-flight-trackers-are-the-sleeper-hit-of-the-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/04\/from-celebrity-jets-to-pelosis-taiwan-trip-flight-trackers-are-the-sleeper-hit-of-the-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"From celebrity jets to Pelosi\u2019s Taiwan trip, flight trackers are the sleeper hit of the summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forget Netflix: millions are now tuning in to watch little yellow plane icons move across a map of the world<\/p>\n<p>Want to watch a top-secret government flight live? Track a drug kingpin\u2019s movements in real time? Or know how much Taylor Swift\u2019s jets are polluting the air? They\u2019re all streaming live on the sleeper hit of the summer: online flight trackers.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, viewers set new records on Flightradar24, one of the largest flight tracker websites in the world, as they watched the seven-hour <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/02\/mood-shifts-in-taiwan-as-nancy-pelosi-visit-raises-fears-of-war\">flight of Nancy Pelosi<\/a> from Kuala Lumpur to Taipei. The trip, shrouded in secrecy until its final moments, grabbed international attention after China made military threats in the weeks leading up to the visit, and then launched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/03\/china-to-begin-series-unprecedented-live-fire-drills-off-coast-of-taiwan\">live-fire exercises<\/a> once she had departed.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/03\/flight-trackers-flightradar24-ads-b-exchange\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/d20cc739d6669ab49407adfe8960646f2573e970\/0_134_2044_1227\/master\/2044.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=921632188914df3e60a0eaea668347da\" title=\"From celebrity jets to Pelosi\u2019s Taiwan trip, flight trackers are the sleeper hit of the summer\" \/>Forget Netflix: millions are now tuning in to watch little yellow plane icons move across a map of the world<br \/>\nWant to watch a top-secret government flight live? Track a drug kingpin\u2019s movements in real time? Or know how much Taylor Swift\u2019s jets are polluting the air? They\u2019re all streaming live on the sleeper hit of the summer: online flight trackers.<br \/>\nOn Tuesday, viewers set new records on Flightradar24, one of the largest flight tracker websites in the world, as they watched the seven-hour flight of Nancy Pelosi from Kuala Lumpur to Taipei. The trip, shrouded in secrecy until its final moments, grabbed international attention after China made military threats in the weeks leading up to the visit, and then launched live-fire exercises once she had departed. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forget Netflix: millions are now tuning in to watch little yellow plane icons move across a map of the world Want to watch a top-secret government flight live? Track a drug kingpin\u2019s movements in real time? Or know how much Taylor Swift\u2019s jets are polluting the air? They\u2019re all streaming live on the sleeper hit &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/04\/from-celebrity-jets-to-pelosis-taiwan-trip-flight-trackers-are-the-sleeper-hit-of-the-summer\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">From celebrity jets to Pelosi\u2019s Taiwan trip, flight trackers are the sleeper hit of the summer<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6587"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}