Points for getting correctly noting July 3, 2037 is a Friday.
June 28, 2017 actually being a Wednesday may or may not reduce your points, I’m still debating.
I’m a busy man. I can’t be expected to read more than the headline.
Of course there’s also no logical reason to assume a time-travelling object would end up in the same position relative to the sun instead of the same position relative to the Earth.
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And the 67 degree temperature turns out to be Celsius.
Going along those lines, have you read the Terry Pratchett/Steven Baxter Long Earth series of books? 
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I only recognize 3 of those authors.
From the comments on Charlie’s blog, I think it’s fairly clear he didn’t miss the point - he just decided that due to lack of time (and optimism), he couldn’t take part in the official event.
Peter Watts of course could write something far more depressing and argue that it is in fact optimistic…
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These really must be optimistic stories given that Gregory Benford’s has a passenger turning on their 2017 iphone in 2037 and a) it connects to something and b) it gets auto-updated.
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As mentioned, the communications systems wouldn’t be compatible, the plane would show up on radar but not be emitting any recognizable ID.
Lets assume the pilot takes the initiative to land. Won’t be safe, he doesn’t know what traffic is around (other than his own radar)…
Anyways, the end result if a plane full of people who are from the past, and their appearance in the future is cool, but so what? The electronics they carry are worthless (to use, and the tech in them) , and everything they know can be Googled.
Time Refugees would be an apt title.
Also enjoy the tired trop of the small child being the one to notice things going on as the adults are clueless. Was she holding a teddy bear? Didn’t notice, wouldn’t be surprised.
Yawn.
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There was an issue of Transmetropolitan that covered the same issue, but with cryogenic freezing rather than time travelling aircraft.
See also Larry Niven’s Gil the Arm stories (as a minor plot point in the organlegger conspiracy).
Yes.
Couldn’t find the right kind of potato to power the box yet, though.
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Perhaps they’ll have an audience with Emperor Norton the Second?
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Californian Air National Guard Rapid Response Force, who scrambled a pair of F-15E fighters to intercept and identify.
Boeing 777s were so thoroughly retired that the appearance of one shocks them, but they still scramble F-15s? dang. This is dark. they really do never finish the F-35…
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The rest of the U.S. is too fractured and chaotic to maintain their F-15s, let alone get it together enough to finish the F-35. The CANG bought a bunch of the jets up from the Feds at fire sale prices, the proceeds of which were applied a new wing of the Presidential Palace at Mar a Lago.
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The ANG tends to get the hand-me-down aircraft, I believe some units were still flying F-4s in the early 90s although restricted from flying near top speed due to structural fatigue concerns.
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From your blog link, I read that the organizers were interested in “positive future stories”, at least for the seed entries. I have a hard time wrapping my mind around a Peter Watts positive future story.
But I’m certainly gonna try.
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I do recall that in The Time Ships, Baxter handled the Earth-keeps-moving problem by proposing that a time machine would sort of rapidly phase in and out of normal time, and thus stay at a fixed point on the Earth’s surface. Makes about as much sense as any other explanation.
Any given object has its shadow doppelgänger in space-time, or rather time-space. Even if the object moves, its shadow follows. The time machine doesn’t so much travel in time, but switches places with this other real. Now the doppelgänger resides in space-time, but is still incorporeal. So the time machine now follows its own shadows, but experiences no time of its own.
