Fort Morgan Municipal Airport (ICAO: KFMM, FAA LID: FMM, formerly 3V4) is six miles north of Fort Morgan, in Morgan County, Colorado. The airport is in the city limits in a detached section of the city. The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 categorized it as a general aviation facility.Many U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, but this airport is FMM to the FAA and has no IATA code (Memmingen Airport in Memmingen, Germany has IATA code FMM).
This app shows satellite views of random airports. Its aim is to introduce you to the variety of airport structures embedded into the landscape.
Parts of the website are heavily inspired by David Schmidt's website chuchichechocha.com.
Usage
Click on the satellite image or on the button in the control panel to advance to another randomly selected airport.
Click on the button in the control panel to start auto play mode (every 30 seconds a random airport is loaded); Click on the button to stop the auto play mode.
Click on the button in the control panel to search for a specific airport by ICAO code, IATA code, airport name, or location name.
Click on the button in the control panel to show additional information about the current airport and to open the current view in a variety of external services (e.g. Google Maps).
Click on the button in the control panel to toggle fullscreen mode.
Unlike other mapping websites, it is not possible to change the view by panning it around with the mouse or to change the zoom factor.
Technologies and Data Sources
This app is based on the Google Maps API, which on the one hand provides a powerful programming interface for web-based mapping applications, and on the other hand opens access to high quality satellite imagery for places all over the world.
The backend is realized in Python with the help of the excellent Flask micro framework.
The locations of airports have been imported from the public domain data provided by the aviation enthusiasts at OurAirports.com. The app displays randomly selected airports of the categories 'large_airport','medium_airport' and 'small_airport' for which runway coordinates are available.
Furthermore, the user interface incorporates icons from Font Awesome and fonts from Google Fonts.
Author
This is brought to you by me, Florian Pigorsch.
Feel free to contact me via Google+ or mail.
The source code of this app can be found at Github.
Backlinks
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This app shows satellite views of random airports. Its aim is to introduce you to the variety of airport structures embedded into the landscape.
Click on the satellite image or on to advance to another randomly selected airport.
Click on start 'auto play' mode (every 30 seconds a random airport is loaded).
Click on to search for a specific airport.
Click on to show infos about the current airport.
Click on to toggle fullscreen mode.
Search for airports
You can search for ICAO-codes (4-letter airport codes, e.g. 'KSFO'), IATA-codes (3-letter airport codes, e.g. 'SFO'), airport and location names (e.g. 'San Francisco').
Search queries containing multiple words and/or non-alphanumeric characters may be problematic - try to keep your query simple (e.g. prefer 'Helsinki' to 'Helsinki Airport')!