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On my first flight ever as a kid, we flew to Newark for a connecting flight. I had seen Manhattan dozens of times from the ground from all the visits there, but seeing the massive skyline from the air was absolutely amazing to me as a kid.
I also flew at night on the 4th of July. It was a completely clear sky, and you could see dozens of fireworks shows going off for probably hundreds of miles in every direction.
I’m fairly well traveled domestic and overseas. Twin engine turboprop commuter flight from Chicago to Columbus Ohio during the summer several years ago. Flying through an intense summer storm. The most incredible displays of lightning I’ve ever scene extremely close to our aircraft. Probably the only time I was ever really frightened on a flight.
Two things, the first (and what got me hooked on flying), was when I was in Ukraine back in the 90's (before the fall of the Soviet Union). The pilots invited me up to the cockpit and chatted and let me stay up there for the landing. So much fun.
Secondly, and this happened a few months ago, we were on final and got struck by lightning, about 2 rows in front of me. The bang was deafening and there were some sparks that flew by my window but other than that uneventful. Once we pulled to the gate, I did see the pilots over there looking at the strike area.
On September 12th, 2001 at around 3 AM I was flying CAP over a US city. What I noticed wasn't what I could see, but what I did not see. Usually under night vision devices one can see lots of airline traffic but the skies were clear, no flashing strobes or beacons or lights, just my wingman and me and an Air Guard tanker. Surreal.
Lived on the 37th floor of a 39-floor hi-rise in Minneapolis, right across from the U of M campus.
Looked down one day, and saw a news helicopter fly past, BELOW me.
I wasn't looking out an airplane window, but might as well have been.
I worked in the World Trade Center for 20 years, and I saw helicopters and small planes fly below where I was many times. For one of the years there, I was on the 82nd floor.
Someone mentioned it being night on one side and day on the other--that would happen when the sun had not yet completely set over NJ but it was dark to the east of Manhattan already.
No, that wasn't an airplane window, either, but I used to describe the view as being similar to looking out the window of a plane as you were coming into a landing.
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