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Angle of Ascent — Dating a Takeoff Photo to the Second
An aerial shot of a KLM Cityhopper lifting off an unnamed runway. Runway markings give the scale, the scale gives the airport, and Denmark's open aerial imagery archive gives a timestamp accurate to the second — enough to name the exact flight and its arrival gate.
REACH 4599 — Why the Yellow Sea C-17 Was Not a Secret Flight
A Flightradar24 screenshot of a USAF C-17 heading west across the Yellow Sea gets sold as proof of secret US cargo runs to North Korea. The leg history in the same screenshot says otherwise.