Coolest thing you ever seen from a Plane

[packerbacker]

Have you guys seen anything cool out a plane window that still sticks with you to this day? I remember seeing the mountains in Colorado from the air and that was really cool. You guys seen any cities from the air or see any events going on in stadiums as you were flying?

[jfkbengals]

The Rockies, Sierra Nevada, and Lake Tahoe are all awesome looking from the air.

Last time I flew out west (at least I think it was the last time), I was able to see the Indy 500 from above thanks to the pilot's announcement that it was on my side of the plane. That was kinda neat.

[BengalHawk62]

I saw the Super Dome flying over New Orleans when we went to Cancun right after Hurricane Katerina. That always stuck with me.

[jfkbengals]

(08-02-2017, 09:13 PM)BengalHawk62 Wrote: I saw the Super Dome flying over New Orleans when we went to Cancun right after Hurricane Katerina.  That always stuck with me.

Was the area still underwater?

[packerbacker]

That's really cool BengalHawk. How high up were you? I remember years ago flying into Denver and it seemed like the airport was in the middle of the country. You had to take a dirt road to get there if I remember right. Fast forward to 2013 I was there again and it seemed like they moved the airport to near the city now. It was close to the major interstates this time. Back in the 90s it was way out there. Maybe I am imaginating things but anyone else know if they have a new airport in the last few years?

[BengalHawk62]

(08-02-2017, 09:32 PM)jfkbengals Wrote: Was the area still underwater?

(08-02-2017, 09:51 PM)packerbacker Wrote: That's really cool BengalHawk. How high up were you? I remember years ago flying into Denver and it seemed like the airport was in the middle of the country. You had to take a dirt road to get there if I remember right. Fast forward to 2013 I was there again and it seemed like they moved the airport to near the city now. It was close to the major interstates this time. Back in the 90s it was way out there. Maybe I am imaginating things but anyone else know if they have a new airport in the last few years?

I'm sorry guys, didn't mean to mislead you, we went to Cancun in Febuary of 06. I think Katerina happened in August of 05. I didn't see any damage or anything, but it still stuck with me, I was thinking of what went on in that building in the aftermath of the storm as we were flying over it. My apologies. We flew out of Memphis and right over NO on our way to Cancun.

[Goalpost]

Several years ago, flew over New York City

Just... taking off over a large body of water...Tampa/St Pete area

[Sabretooth]

Flying home into Richmond,Va at night, seeing the city lights during a light snow, on a Piedmont Airlines propjet.
There is truly no place like home.

[Millhouse]

Flying south along the coast past Miami. Luckily I had the window seat on the right side of plane. But not too long after that was surpassed when I looked down and saw land, and a bunch of farms. At first I was like what, then looked up and saw we were over Cuba. This was in 2000.

But then that was surpassed when we landed in Montega Bay Jamaicca. The water was amazing on the descent, and the hills and landscape was picturesque. Of course the view changes quite a bit when on the ground in a Jamaicca city lol.

[grampahol]

The most impressive thing I ever saw from a plane was the ground when the plane landed safely..
I have to admit though that seeing the curvature of the earth from 50,000 feet is pretty cool..  On the same hand there are places in the middle of Nebraska where it's so flat that you can see the same curvature.. 

[*Awful Llama*]

(08-02-2017, 09:51 PM)packerbacker Wrote: That's really cool BengalHawk. How high up were you? I remember years ago flying into Denver and it seemed like the airport was in the middle of the country. You had to take a dirt road to get there if I remember right. Fast forward to 2013 I was there again and it seemed like they moved the airport to near the city now. It was close to the major interstates this time. Back in the 90s it was way out there. Maybe I am imaginating things but anyone else know if they have a new airport in the last few years?

Yeah, the houses have creeped closer like you said, but for those visiting Denver for the first time it's probably a bit disappointing when you come outside of the airport.  Probably thinking that when they exit it's going to be all snow-capped peaks, like a Coors can, and instead it's just brown fields and car rental lots as far as you can see.  Maybe, if you squint, you can make out some mountains in the distance.  That drive into town is just a whole lotta nothing.  Amazing once you get there, though.  Going there again at the end of the month and looking forward to ditching this prairie existence for the Rockies, if only temporarily.  

[Tiger Teeth]

Coolest thing I've ever seen from an airplane? Stewardesses.

[HarleyDog]

Statue of Liberty.

[XenoMorph]

Flew over the North pole when I was young....

[jfkbengals]

(08-02-2017, 09:51 PM)packerbacker Wrote: That's really cool BengalHawk. How high up were you? I remember years ago flying into Denver and it seemed like the airport was in the middle of the country. You had to take a dirt road to get there if I remember right. Fast forward to 2013 I was there again and it seemed like they moved the airport to near the city now. It was close to the major interstates this time. Back in the 90s it was way out there. Maybe I am imaginating things but anyone else know if they have a new airport in the last few years?

I don't recall it being that far out there, and I definitely don't recall going down any dirt roads to get there...

(08-02-2017, 11:37 PM)Sabretooth Wrote: Flying home into Richmond,Va  at night, seeing the city lights during a light snow, on a Piedmont Airlines propjet.
There is truly no place like home.

Piedmont!?!?!  That was back in Byrd Field days!

[Westwood Bengal]

Coolest thing I ever saw was a reflection of me nailing a stewardess in the mirror of the bathroom stall.

[Nebuchadnezzar]

After the Army Recruiter picked me up from my house and took me to the bus station for the ride up to Columbus Ohio and spent the night there. The next morning, I was put on a shuttle bus to M.E.P.S. where I was processed again and then taken to the airport.

This was my first time flying so I asked for a window seat and I remember taking off. It was a boring flight and I really didn't see anything and got bored. After we landed in Chicago, we had about an hour to kill before our flight to Atlanta.

Now, we take off from Chicago and I can see the pollution line as we pass through it. It was really weird as we got higher and the air around Chicago was brown. I'll never forget that, I don't know why but to think that the air in Cincinnati was almost as bad.

After I got out of the Army, we moved out to the country.

[Benton]

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.

Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.




Seriously, though, my grandfather was a professional pilot. I think there are very few things as peaceful and sobering as a barely lit instrument panel during sunset/sunrise over the Rockies. There's a moment on a clear day when you can see the sun and the stars with the mountains at the bottom of it all. From altitude it didn't last very long, but it was like all at once you could see the entire universe and you realized just how small that mountain — and you — really are.

[Nebuchadnezzar]

A friend of mine, who is 93, was in the Navy and was the Gunner of a Navy Dive Bomber in WWII.

I asked him if he ever feared falling out of his seat when the pilot went into his dive over a ship after he told me the dive was so steep, it felt like he would fall out. He told me that he feared the Japanese fighter coming at him more than falling out, lol.

EDIT: I removed the previous edit since he seemed rather ashamed about some of the stuff we've talked about.

[StoneTheCrow]

Moose and grizzlies. I worked for a master hunting guide/bush pilot in Alaska one fall. Saw caribou and wolverines as well. Not to mention miles on miles of untouched tundra.