This visualisation of a day's worth of flights around London is mesmerising

This video comes to us from air traffic control group NATS, visualising 24 hours of flights in UK airspace above London and the south-east.

Flights for the five main airports serving London are visualised separately, before being merged into one psychedelic and almost overwhelming final picture.

Watch the video below:

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