<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by UnitedSkies:
The interesting thing is during the northern fall and spring, less so in winter on the ORD-HKG nonstop, it starts to get dark within 2 hours of departure, and just when you think it will be dark for the rest of the way, the sun seems to hang very low on or just below the horizon for a good portion of the flight just off the left side of the plane.</font>
One of the coolest things I've ever seen was a so-called "reverse sunset" when flying from LHR-LAX on NZ 1 in November. The sun set above Greenland about two hours after our 15:00 takeoff. After about an hour (as we started heading southward) it came back up! It set for the second time about two hours later.