Simplify the aircraft details sidebar

[kewonit]

Summary

• Restore the 208 px and 224 px aircraft photo hero.
• Show a full-height loading skeleton, fade valid photos into place, and collapse the hero after an empty result or image failure.
• Restore the 64 px identity tile and prominent callsign.
• Use a shared airline logo only when the airline mapping supports it. Use a neutral aircraft icon otherwise.
• Keep one factual Reported route surface and hide invalid or conflicting routes.
• Keep position, altitude, speed, and status in one divided two-column surface.
• Keep secondary fields in one Details disclosure that resets when the selected aircraft changes.
• Hide unsupported fields, inferred operators, owners, generic logos, and placeholders.
• Keep dynamic source attribution and screen-reader-safe freshness text.
• Resize the desktop map to the visible area and keep its right edge fixed.
• Match the map and sidebar transitions at 640 ms.
• Use a smooth 32 px desktop seam radius.
• Center a newly selected aircraft without changing zoom, pitch, or bearing.
• Keep the last valid center while panels close or change. Do not recenter for repeated observations.
• Keep the mobile layout unchanged.

Release metadata

• Version: 0.8.9
• Release date: Aug 24, 2026
• Changelog topics: Open aviation data updates, Aircraft data and route trust, and Simpler aircraft details
• This PR contains the single consolidated 0.8.9 changelog entry.

Stack

• Stack position: 3 of 3
• PR base: data/flight-data-trust
• Base commit: e478aa236a84d4a22ff0245b4f82287ca0d013ff
• Previous PR: Fuse selected aircraft data and validate routes #41

Verification

• pnpm test with 351 passing tests
• pnpm data:check with 496,914 aircraft and 72,490 airports
• pnpm lint with no errors and four existing warnings
• pnpm build
• git diff --check
• No em dash characters in added lines, commit text, or PR text
• Chrome Work profile review in a separate group
• Dark and light review at 1440 by 900
• Mobile review at 390 by 844
• Photo, no-photo, valid-route, hidden-route, open Details, and panel transition checks
• Computed desktop seam radius confirmed at 32 px
• Screenshots saved outside the repository

Production safety

• main is production.
• Keep this PR as a draft and unmerged for review.
• Do not enable auto-merge, publish a release, or deploy from this PR.

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