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Air Traffic Time-Lapse Captures How Insanely Busy And Beautiful Flying Over Europe Is

WATCH: Flying Across Europe Has Never Looked So Beautiful

Now here's a view you won't get from any window seat.

The National Air Traffic Services (NATS), an air-traffic control group based in the United Kingdom, has released a time-lapse video using data from a typical summer's day. The result? A 24-hour snap shot crammed into less than two minutes.

Using U.K. radar data from June of last year and European flight plan info from July, NATS gives flyers a little perspective to the volume air traffic control has to deal with while passengers are up in the air or on waiting for their flight on the ground.

According to the video, which has been sped up 1,440 times faster than real-time, some 30,000 flights fly over European airspace —many of them from North America and into the corridors that connect to Gatwick International or London Heathrow

You can watch the magic unfold in the video below:

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