Look, a plane!

So this isn't exactly travel news, but might be the coolest thing I've heard in a while. Besides, it has to do with airplines--and that's travel-related, right?

The big question: have you ever looked up at an airplane in the sky and wondered where it was going?

Well, wonder no more, thanks to a recent smart phone app called Plane Finder AR featured in a recent CNN.com article.

The app can tell you where the plane started, where it's headed, how fast it's going and other aircraft technicalities like the flight number.

This is one of those things I've been waiting around
forever for someone to invent. It seems a little Jetsons-esque to just hold your smart phone up to the sky and have the details of a flight above presented to you on your phone. What a cool world we live in.

Some users have not found much success with the app since it doesn't work as well in the U.S. yet. More sensors must be installed in the U.S. in order to expand the app's success across the country.

So travel lovers, now when we look up at a plane, we don't just have to guess about the cool place it is headed to. Instead, we can be just plain jealous as we watch the Hawaii-bound plane pass right over us.

Photo above courtesy of CNN.