It’s easy to forget just how many planes are in the skies above us. Flight Stream, a_startling WebGL visualization of global flight data, is a good reminder. Created by San Francisco-based British developer, Callum Prentice, it maps flights as pulsing dots on a zoomable, rotatable world. The Web app allows you to change the speed and size of how flights are represented and the opacity of the trails they leave as they criss-cross the globe. Prentice says the map currently shows routes based on data from Open Flights but hopes to use live info in a future version. Devs can…

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