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I love watching the scenery as I fly, and taking pictures, but its just luck how much I can see or shoot depending on weather, route, and where I'm sitting. However, on my 9/20 return from PVD I got lucky and hit the jackpot for photos. On the DTW - HSV leg the route did cross several big cities and airports, but I got lucky on the weather (clear all the way) and where I sat: on a plane for 50 there were only 25 pax, so I had both sides to shoot from! I thought I'd share some of the ones I didn't upload here:
On takeoff I got a great overview of DTW's new terminal
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Then 20 miles south as we climbed I could see Lake Erie on the left side, so I moved over there and got a great wing shot:
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I knew Toledo, Ohio was next and would also be on the left, and a couple minutes later I got this excellent overview of the city:
I didn't know where the airport was, but after looking and not seeing it I jumped back over the the right side and there it was, west of the city:
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Then I settled back for the ride across Ohio.... captured this nice small town also, complete with farms and smoke from the smokestack...made for a great photo op:
I knew we'd be west of Cincinnati so I moved back to the left side, but I missed an overview of the Dayton airport. Oh well....Cincinnati was coming up fast. And what a view.......
And of course just across the river is the CVG airport...
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There isn't much between Cincy and Louisville, but I did notice this interesting scene on the Ohio River:
Looks like a nuclear power plant with that cooling tower but I can't figure out which plant it is; the general area is the Indiana - Ohio border (Ohio River). And in a short time we came upon Louisville - just right for another photo op:
Hey I think I see Chris K. waving.... :P
Just a minute later comes a great view of the SDF airport too:
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There isn't much in southern Kentucky and Northern Tennessee so I had a chance to relax...I was hoping for an overview of BNA. When we got close to Nashville I saw downtown off the right side - didn't shoot it because I had the shot from the northbound trip. It looked like the same angle, so we must have been on the same airway, which meant the airport would be east or on the left side. I found it - but we were directly over the field and the shot was impossible. However, I did see another airport nearby Nashville, Smyrna, which I was in a good position to shoot:
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Then we began descending; its only 100 miles to HSV. I managed to spot this little general aviation field in Lewisburg, TN:
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I chose to remain on the right side of the plane for landing - bad choice, because at this time the sun glare was making any shot impossible to the west. We touched down and I got one final shot as we neared the end:[photoid=164591]
Total flight time was 1 hour 19 minutes and about 595 (i think) miles. Aircraft was N8432A, a CRJ-200 of Northwest Airlink (Pinnacle). Our cruising altitude when I took these photos was about 25,000 ft.
I have never had so many great photos on ONE flight before. On the PVD - DTW leg it wasn't nearly half as good as this. All the elements came together this time. Now that's why I like window seats and always keep the camera with me...
On takeoff I got a great overview of DTW's new terminal
[photoid=161927]
Then 20 miles south as we climbed I could see Lake Erie on the left side, so I moved over there and got a great wing shot:
[photoid=160152]
I knew Toledo, Ohio was next and would also be on the left, and a couple minutes later I got this excellent overview of the city:
I didn't know where the airport was, but after looking and not seeing it I jumped back over the the right side and there it was, west of the city:
[photoid=160160]
Then I settled back for the ride across Ohio.... captured this nice small town also, complete with farms and smoke from the smokestack...made for a great photo op:
I knew we'd be west of Cincinnati so I moved back to the left side, but I missed an overview of the Dayton airport. Oh well....Cincinnati was coming up fast. And what a view.......
And of course just across the river is the CVG airport...
[photoid=160164]
There isn't much between Cincy and Louisville, but I did notice this interesting scene on the Ohio River:
Looks like a nuclear power plant with that cooling tower but I can't figure out which plant it is; the general area is the Indiana - Ohio border (Ohio River). And in a short time we came upon Louisville - just right for another photo op:
Hey I think I see Chris K. waving.... :P
Just a minute later comes a great view of the SDF airport too:
[photoid=161919]
There isn't much in southern Kentucky and Northern Tennessee so I had a chance to relax...I was hoping for an overview of BNA. When we got close to Nashville I saw downtown off the right side - didn't shoot it because I had the shot from the northbound trip. It looked like the same angle, so we must have been on the same airway, which meant the airport would be east or on the left side. I found it - but we were directly over the field and the shot was impossible. However, I did see another airport nearby Nashville, Smyrna, which I was in a good position to shoot:
[photoid=161916]
Then we began descending; its only 100 miles to HSV. I managed to spot this little general aviation field in Lewisburg, TN:
[photoid=164371]
I chose to remain on the right side of the plane for landing - bad choice, because at this time the sun glare was making any shot impossible to the west. We touched down and I got one final shot as we neared the end:[photoid=164591]
Total flight time was 1 hour 19 minutes and about 595 (i think) miles. Aircraft was N8432A, a CRJ-200 of Northwest Airlink (Pinnacle). Our cruising altitude when I took these photos was about 25,000 ft.
I have never had so many great photos on ONE flight before. On the PVD - DTW leg it wasn't nearly half as good as this. All the elements came together this time. Now that's why I like window seats and always keep the camera with me...
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