@RandomFlightBot

This repository contains code to run a Twitter Bot that tweets out random flight plans every 4 hours. You can see a live demo here

Tweet Formatting

Each Tweet Contains:

• A departure airport, including the name, ICAO code and location
• A destination airport, including the name, ICAO code and location
• The total distance measured in miles, using the haversine formula from coordinates
• An estimated time to arrival, with plane speed assumed to be 200 knots

Technologies

• Twitter4j API
• Java Spring Boot
• Lombok

Credit

• Airport data that was used to generate flights can be found here
• The airport database was filtered to include only small/medium/large airports that include IATA codes