Merlin Intelligence - Live OSINT Tool
605 flights. 615 airborne hours. 21 aircraft. 182 days of continuous public data
Today I am releasing MERLIN INTELLIGENCE.
A live OSINT terminal that turns every public Merlin Labs signal into one operator-grade view. Updates itself in real time. 605 flights captured, 615 airborne hours, 21 aircraft tracked across 182 days.
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What it tracks:
Fifty-two disclosed Merlin, Dynamic Aviation, and KC-135 testbed tails on a 2D map and a 3D Cesium globe with real Esri satellite imagery. Five-source ADS-B quorum: airplanes.live, <adsb.fi>, OpenSky OAuth2, adsb.lol, geo-radius. Circuit breakers and last-known-good cache fallback. The map does not blank.
Twenty live SEC EDGAR filings. Material 8-K disclosures flagged red. Direct scrape of <merlinlabs.com/news> every 15 minutes for new GlobeNewswire press releases (the $80M PIPE, the CRO and CMO appointments, the C-130J PDR completion). Thirty-one active Merlin job postings classified by department. Five upcoming dated catalysts with source URLs. Twenty-five spam-filtered Stocktwits messages with a sentiment bar. Fifty Reddit posts. Fifty academic papers citing Merlin work. METAR for every fleet airport. SBIR awards. DoD contracts. Insider net buying summary when Form 4s land. Patents.
What it shows:
The certification testbed cadence peaked March-April 2026. Three platforms carry the load. N208B Big Red is the US testbed. ZK-MLN is the New Zealand cert testbed. ZK-MLO is the NZ Super Cargomaster cargo variant. All three synchronized to a spring peak.
Cert flying alone (Merlin testbeds): 377 sorties, 316 airborne hours. USAF KC-135 military pool: 223 sorties, 290 hours. Dynamic Aviation cargo: 7 sorties opening in May 2026.
How it works:
Three views. 2D map shows every fleet aircraft right now. 3D globe shows the same fleet with motion trails, atmosphere, day/night terminator. 24-hour replay scrubber drags back to any moment in the last day. Click any flight in the log, both surfaces lockstep to its takeoff point at 60x playback.
Server-Sent Events push channel. Every new flight, every new filing, every new tail-alert fires into the browser within seconds. No polling.
Access:
All paid Shawarma Capital subscribers get full dashboard access. Sign in at shawarmacapital.net with the same email as your Substack subscription. A six-digit code arrives in your inbox. Free readers see the public sneak with live fleet count, today’s airborne activity, and the latest Shawarma coverage.
Founding members get the same dashboard access plus the standard founding benefits.
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