Sunny Flight

hack.summit() Virtual Hackathon Project

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Basic flight data from http://openflights.org/data.html

Used the Flight Status API from FlightAware.

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It Determines which ‘side of plane’ (left or right) should be reserved in order to get minimum exposure to sunlight using calculations of elevation of latitudes and longitudes of earth, flight and sunlight.

Result of Query

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Problem Statement

Suppose you are traveling on a flight and you are allotted with a random seat and in most of the part of journey you are annoyed by sunlight. Thus to presented the solution to this problem, after intense calculations of earth’s, flight’s and sunlight’s elevation of latitudes and longitudes, we presented the user the result that which side of plane either left or right he/she should reserve in order to get exposure to minimum sunlight

Next Query

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Changed Results

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