Stowaway
Take the window seat on any plane or satellite in the sky
What it does
Flight trackers show you a dot on a map. Stowaway puts you in the seat. Pick any aircraft or satellite currently overhead and ride along, looking down at the real world passing below. The sky is physically based — real sun and moon positions, real stars — so the light matches what's actually outside your window right now. Share a link to any flight. Send your family the one you're on and they can watch out the window with you from home. Free, no signup, in the browser.
The real sky above you, live: every aircraft and satellite passing overhead, under a physically-based sun, moon and stars. Pick one and ride along.
Pick any aircraft or satellite passing over your house right now, and go sit in its window seat. The sky here is the real one outside — your location, your weather, this minute's light — with the aircraft and satellites that are genuinely overhead. Click one and the camera follows it; stow away and it takes a seat on board, over real terrain. All of that is drawn in real time, which needs JavaScript and WebGL 2. Switching JavaScript on for this site should do it. There is a window seat streaming on YouTube around the clock — a real flight over real terrain, with the cabin sound. It is ordinary video, so it plays here even though the sky above willfrom stowaway.live
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