The Obligatory "Look Ma! I'm on a plane!" vacation shot

[KatherineEmma]

I have a minor obsession with taking pictures out of plane windows, probably as a result of too many tedious transatlantic flights and a childlike fascination with the seeming improbability of being 32,000 feet up in the air in a big metal box. I've been grounded for some time now and I'm starting to miss the plane window perspective, so I'd like to see some of your aerial shots.

[hitkaiser]

Gorgeous shots, I thought I was one of the only weirdos in the world doing that!

[KatherineEmma]

Originally Posted by hitkaiser

I thought I was one of the only weirdos in the world doing that!

Amusingly it looks like you're living in my old home town (although I've been living in the States for four months now) so perhaps it's a Reading thing.

Leafing through your flickr pictures is making me vaguely homesick - glad to see the Peruvian panpipe blokes are still about!

[RainPacket]

Ah, alright. Here's mine...

[andy206uk]

Heres mine:

[RandomConnections]

I don't have any worthy of posting here, but with the advent of Google Earth, I've had fun trying to take a photo out the window of a plane, then match it up with the location in Google Earth.

In the interest of full disclosure, my success rate hasn't been very high.

[mdwsta4]

don't have any real good ones, but here are two taken with a P&S about 2 years ago while leaving Boston




cheers

[KatherineEmma]

Wow. That's a great one Rachel. What mountain range is that?

Originally Posted by RandomConnections

I don't have any worthy of posting here, but with the advent of Google Earth, I've had fun trying to take a photo out the window of a plane, then match it up with the location in Google Earth.

In the interest of full disclosure, my success rate hasn't been very high.

Hahah!

Andy - looks like you're on the very edge of space in that 3rd one. Insane.

These are great, guys. Thanks

[RainPacket]

Originally Posted by KatherineEmma

Wow. That's a great one Rachel. What mountain range is that?

I really couldn't tell you. It was on the way back from Washington, DC, and I'd been up since 3am. I was barely awake enough to remember how to set the camera (as a long string of poorly-exposed out-the-window shots just before this one could attest), much less pay attention to the pilot... I only know it wasn't anywhere near enough to familiar mountains (i.e., the Cascades and Olympics, or Mt. Rainier) for my taste.

I /think/ it was probably somewhere in the Rockies, given that we flew over mountains for something like half an hour straight. I got many different mountain shots, but that was by far my favorite.

[Griffin2020]

My best out the window shot was on a trans atlantic flight in either 86 or 87...I will have to see if I can find it and scan it in. The photo was of an American F-14 off of the right wing of the airliner, about 2.5-3 hours out of O'Hare enroute to London Gatwick.