Balloon traffic failing. Error 504

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It seems to have been working 3 days ago but currently returns a Cloudflare error. It seems to happen to anything that has been in the air for a long time.

Balloons that have the error I have found so far.

https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/N258TH
https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/HBAL717
https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/HBAL728

  • Ray ID: 93a0991e2d29ed82
  • Your IP address:
  • Error reference number: 504
  • Cloudflare Location: Atlanta

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These eventually load for me, but I have magic staff privileges (longer page timeout). If you’re logged in, then possibly they’ll load (logged in users get longer timeouts)

I suspect it’s because balloons produce abnormally long tracks (>48 hours in this case)

I’ve raised an internal issue to improve this.

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