My eclipse flight story: in 2017 I was flying on a client's G280 DAL-CHS for business and all excited about an eclipse viewing party planned by the FBO at CHS where we were scheduled to park. Flight plan would have put us on the ground at CHS in plenty of time to enjoy the fun party the FBO was planning on their ramp. Well, even G280s aren't immune to mechanicals. The plane was coming right out of maintenance at Gulfstream DAL and we took about an hour and a half delay. If memory serves, it was a nav database load issue and maybe other things. Well, thanks to that delay we were treated to an amazing inflight view of the eclipse at cruise over Georgia. Getting closer to CHS, the weather turned miserable, we had to take a few delay vectors before shooting the approach and wound up parking on the ramp in a torrential driving rainstorm. FBO staff shared that the thunderstorms started right around eclipse time. Their planned party on the ramp was a total washout.

So, flight delays sometimes create once-in-a-lifetime memories.