Re:Show HN: What's My Aircraft?
by mitchellst on Monday March 25, 2019 @06:00PM
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This is kind of cool but there are other good tools for it, as commenters mentioned. (Seatguru, FlightAware.) I think the missing feature there is simplicity and “so what?” Tell me why my a321neo is so cool, how to tell it apart from other planes when I see it on the tarmac, when it was designed, how many are out there, which airlines operate lots of them. Others will beat you on feature richness, but I just want an app I can use to teach my kids about planes, and geek out on them myself.
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Isn't this just a tool to know if you were going to be on a 737 Max?
Not since it's been effectively grounded worldwide
Most of that info is in Wikipedia, which has detailed pages on probably every aircraft type and model ever flown.
You could use it to figure out which seats are emergency row seats. Some flight check-in pages don't display the emergency exits when choosing your seats, and it can make the difference between being able to use your 17" laptop or not. :P