#airplane views

[midnightoceanwalks]

mid-plane-ride thoughts

it’s about five hours in, and I had the windows shut the whole flight, and I decided to draw them up and see what’s out there. the stars are beautiful. there are so many of them, I look out and it’s completely dark, I can barely see where the earth ends and the sky starts, there’s nothing below me but I look up and I see the whole universe I swear. I’m not part of our world I’m floating above it, I am part of the universe. I am part of the stars. they make constellations and I get to see them and I don’t know what’s more beautiful than that. to take something so random, all the stars out there, and draw patterns, give them names, give the chaos meaning. at first glance there’s just some stars, but the longer I stare the more I see until after a while I feel overwhelmed with a sense of depth and infinity. there is an infinity out there and right now I am part of it. soon I will land and go home and go back to my life and get caught up in everything of everything but I am holding on to this moment right now. because even though soon I will touch down, not yet. right now, I am still flying. floating. infinity. nothing feels real and everything feels insignificant but I feel peace. I cant stop looking at the stars. god they are beautiful. we really are all just specks, instants, moments that exist somewhere in this forever of universe. we are nothing but we still exist. isn’t that beautiful too. I love and I cry and I hurt and I laugh and I live. I am alive. I exist. wow. I’m talking to the stars now, they have a comfort to them. nothing feels real but the stars are so beautiful and I want to share it.

[zexox]

POV: You finally made it to Dubai!✈️🇦🇪

[bosluga-aitt]

[goshyesvintageads]

Trans World Airlines, 1951

[allenanix]

Wow this is so cool 🛫

[tropicvlwaves]

@tropicvlwaves ☀️

[nocternalrandomness]

Airshow Video: USAF Thunderbirds Cockpit Views

[bettergeology]

I was recently on a flight to San Diego, and I flew over some of my favorite geologic structures. The cool thing about a densely populated area (Southern California) and a highly geologically active area (also Southern California) is that certain structures are large enough to be visible from the sky, even at night!

The first two pictures show the San Andreas fault, the main plate boundary between North America and the Pacific Plate. Large, fast-moving faults like the San Andreas tend to make linear valleys along their trace. These tend to be great areas to build a house, or a road, or a pipeline, or an aqueduct… because they are long, generally flat, and make pathways through the mountains. The San Andreas is paralleled with major highways, interstates, and small towns which illuminate its trace even at night.

The second two show one of my favorite faults, the Elsinore fault! It forms the east edge of the Santa Ana Mountains and also has a linear valley lined with towns (Temecula, Lake Elsinore…) and highways (Interstate 15).

[flyingprivate]

Courtesy of Peter Rajkai

[uniories]

Clouds (2023)

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[marcherren]

[chasingrainbowsforever]

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