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The View From Your Airplane Window

Golden Gate Park, San Francisco Many more views after the jump: Near Atlanta, 10.45 am Mt. Hood, departing Portland, Oregon Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts Siberia, on the Bering Sea, 2 pm Boulder, Colorado, during September’s massive floods Sierra De Gredos Mountains outside Madrid, Spain “Somewhere over Nebraska”. Update from another reader: Grrrr, please, that VFYAW is … Continue reading The View From Your Airplane Window

The View From Your Airplane Window

“An older view (about September/October last year) over northern Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. Taken from a small US military aircraft.” Many more aerial views after the jump: Kaieteur Falls, Guyana Lisbon, Portugal “Tian Shan (aka ‘Celestial’) Mountains in Xinjiang, China, shortly after takeoff from Urumqi airport headed towards Kashgar” “Flight from Sydney to San Francisco. Of course … Continue reading The View From Your Airplane Window

The View From Your Airplane Window

San Francisco Bay, 1.50 pm. “A water treatment plant, I think.” Update from a reader: Actually, these are the famous salt evaporation ponds near Redwood City, used to manufacture a significant quantity of America’s industrial salt.  The different colors come from the different amounts and types of algae which thrive in each pond according to its level of salinity.  … Continue reading The View From Your Airplane Window

The View From Your Airplane Window

by Chris Bodenner Our reader captions: Singapore Strait on approach.  About 10:00 AM, 4/6/12.  About an hour outside of Singapore on the way to Tokyo, a passenger had a heart attack and we had to turn around.  Only time this has ever happened to me after a half million miles flying.  This was shot on … Continue reading The View From Your Airplane Window