title: How to make a flight path projection if possible in Python?
body: <p>I have latitude, longitude and altitude data and want to make a plot such as in the image below using Python. The map can be left out, it is unnecessary.
  <a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/PkV0h.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/PkV0h.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p>I have tried using the <a href="http://matplotlib.org/mpl_toolkits/mplot3d/tutorial.html#polygon-plots" rel="nofollow noreferrer">mplot3d polygon plot tutorial</a> but can't figure out how to have varying x and y values such that it is not a straight line. Any ideas?</p>