That sounds cool! Still have the photo? I'd love to see :D

Flew over Baghdad on Monday on EK DXB-LHR. Looked peaceful from flight level 340...

If the OP doesn't post one up by the time I get home tonight, I have one I can post but it lacks the shadow of the plane. Oddly, it does have the shadow of the contrail though. o.O

Saw the Las Vegas strip lit up at night when flying SLC to LAX, on LAX to TPE saw the expansive city of Tokyo, again at night. Even when viewed from thousands of feet in the air Tokyo is monstrous! A few months ago on SLC-PDX we flew right by Mt. Hood, with a bank of clouds covering the bottom half. I had a gorgeous picture in my cell phone but lost the phone :/.

Hey, post yours too, why not? lol

Sure thing:

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5108/5...d9fbaabfa9.jpg
Somewhere over the Atlantic by chimphappyhour, on Flickr

Would love to see any of that but I never seem to fly the right routes at the right time. As close as I ever get is I do get to see thermal inversions quite a bit while climbing. (I'm usually on the mountain when the clouds are below me. Sounds great until you realize you have to climb down through that.)

November 14th 2008 on a flight DFW-MIA pilot announced that there is a space shuttle launch and we will be pretty close (well, as close as you can be). When the time came he did even the countdown and we coud see the spectacular sight. Propably all of the passengers moved to the left side of the plane.

Very next day I was flying LAX-LHR evening flight and could see the huge wildfires (which I think was the Montecito Tea Fire). That was also quite amazing.

Oh wow that is wicked cool!!! *Now I'll be looking for glories on all of my day flights LOL*

the Northern Lights

not my video, but this was similar to the route I had: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8j36Erxd5rc

Thanks, I know in the northern hemisphere, it works best if you are on a W-E or E-W flight and sit on the north side of the aircraft on a cloudy day. I would assume in the southern hemisphere you would want to be on the south side of an aircraft traveling W-E or E-W. The clouds are the essential bit though.

Aurora borealis on polar routes
Sun dogs above the plane
Sun glories below the plane
Space shuttle launch
Fourth of July Fireworks on a flight across the Midwest
Tracer rounds in Africa
Great wall of China
Grand Canyon in NW Arizona
Canyon De Chelly in NE Arizona
Oil tankers at sea in the Pacific
Other aircraft above and below our flight level
Full moon above the clouds
Mexican pyramids near Mexico City

I look forward to the 787, which has even larger windows for gawping out of.

Used to fly ATL - LAX frequently and on certain occasions the route would go over Lake Havasu City and the London Bridge was clearly visible.

1) On a flight from SFO to SEA, the pilot diverted to the east so that we could see the crater formed on Mt St Helens.

2) On flights from S Calif to SFO, the "Big Sur" arrival comes over Santa Cruz and just to the east of our house. If I sit on the left side of the aircraft, I can often see the house. If you fly this route and let me know you are coming, I will listen to my scanner and come out and wave!

Flying out of Boston in the Wintter, you often head out over the water. I have notices that sometimes there are white things down in the water - never been able to identify them. Do icebergs get this far south? I now they occasionally make it close enough to shore in Maine to see them there.

During the summer months I love the evening flights to LA, as you often pass by large thunderstorms over the plane. The combination of lightning in the clouds and the dusk sky is beautiful.

I found my pictures of the glory and they are not exactly the way I remembered. There is actually no shadow of my airplane anywhere. There is, however, another airplane at a low altitude that just happened by pure luck to be near the glory when I took it, and the shadow of that plane appears below it. So that's probably why I had gotten it a little mixed up in my mind.

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Z...0/_MG_5607.jpg

The arrow points at the other plane which I show expanded here:

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-K...G_5607crop.jpg