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Overhead — the sky above you, live in 3-D

Overhead draws the airliners around you — live, in 3-D, in their own colours — over hand-built airports that follow the real sun and moon.

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1LIVE SKY

The sky above you, as it happens.

Open it anywhere and the aircraft around you are already there — climbing out, turning final, taxiing to the gate. Each one moves the way it's flying, right now.

Airliners over the hills around Los Angeles, their contrails tinted by altitude.
Live
Every aircraft around you, drawn as it flies.
In its own colours
Dozens of airlines, many aircraft types.
Real places
Real terrain, real runways, the real sun and moon.

2AIRPORTS

Eleven airports, built by hand.

Terminals, taxiways, runways and the city beyond. Land at any of them, or just watch who does.

3BEYOND THE FENCE

And the view from the window.

The Golden Gate. The Hollywood sign. The Strip at night. Tower Bridge, the tulip fields, Table Mountain — modelled one by one, lit after dark.

The Golden Gate Bridge over the bay.
Golden Gate · SFO
The Hollywood sign in the hills at night.
Hollywood · LAX
The Bellagio fountains on the Las Vegas Strip at night.
The Strip · LAS
Tower Bridge over the Thames.
Tower Bridge · LHR
Striped tulip fields near Amsterdam.
Tulip fields · AMS
Table Mountain above Cape Town.
Table Mountain · CPT

4DAY INTO NIGHT

Same place. Its own sky.

The light follows the real sun where you're looking. Dusk comes on, the windows light up, the moon rises in its true phase.

The Paris hotel and Eiffel Tower on the Las Vegas Strip by day. The same view at night, windows and the tower lit.
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5THE FLEET

Every airliner in its own colours.

Recognise them before you read the callsign: dozens of airlines on many aircraft types, from regional jets to the A380 — and a house fleet of our own.

    6RIDE ALONG

    Pick one. Ride along.

    Tap any aircraft and the camera follows it: where it's from and where it's going, the gates, and the instruments as it climbs, turns and lands.

    • ALTAltitude and climb
    • GSGround speed
    • HDGHeading and bank
    • RTERoute, gates and times
    Overhead following a JetBlue A320 on approach to LAX at night, with its instruments and route beside it.

    7CAMERAS

    Or sit back. It directs itself.

    Leave it on a screen: it finds the next landing and the next take-off and cuts between the tower, the tail and the runway edge, with a fly-through while it waits.

    A United 737 touching down, seen from the control tower.Tower cam
    From the tower, on a long lens.
    The view from the tail fin down final approach, the runway ahead.Tail cam
    From the top of the fin, down final.
    An airliner overhead with its gear down, seen from below the approach.Runway cam
    Under the approach, as it passes over.
    A Delta A321 climbing out over the hills.Fly-through
    A tour of whoever's up there.

    8ON YOUTUBE

    LAX, live all day. Direct it from the chat.

    Overhead broadcasts LAX around the clock on the LAX Plane Spotters channel. Type a command in the live chat and your pick plays in the viewer cam, with your name on it, while the broadcast goes on.

    The live broadcast: an American A321 on approach to runway 24R with its instruments, and a viewer's on-board camera of it in the picture-in-picture.
    !arrival · !departure
    The next landing or take-off.
    !show UAL123
    Follow a flight, by the callsign on screen.
    !cam tower
    Or cockpit, tail, fence, runway, classic: how it's filmed.
    !flyby · !ground · !board
    A fly-through, a ground tour, the departures board.
    !timelapse
    The last hour of traffic in 30 seconds.