| | I left Monday morning for a trip out west that was supposed to take all week, but ended this morning at 2:30am when we landed back at Indy. We didn't even leave Burbank, CA until 9:30p EST. Needless to say, it was a very long day accompanied by a very long night. It's all worth it to sleep in my own bed next to my gorgeous wife.
I think it was my last post that I was bragging about taking off into Chicago's skyline at night. Well that was what man created. This time I got to see what God can do. I was flying so I couldn't take any pictures of our departure out of Burbank, but take my word for it. That...was awesome. Those of you Californians understand that there is an east-west ridge that divides the Burbank area from Los Angeles downtown and the South Bay. We took off southbound out of the Burbank Airport, topped that east - west ridge and the ENTIRE Los Angeles basin came into view. Downtown, Hollywood (and the sign), the South Bay, the Palos Verdes peninsula, LAX, Catalina Island, etc all visible from my panoramic office window. To top it all off, the sun was about 2 feet above the horizon. We made a graceful right turn westbound directly into the sun, a turn northbound, then finally homebound. Priceless.
A lot of aviation is cool. A lot of aviation is beautiful. These breathtaking, captivating moments, however, are very rare. Moments when you are so captivated by a scene that time stands still allowing your mind to soak it all in. It's like in the movie Contact when Jodi Foster goes through the "tele-transporter" and 15-20 minutes goes by for her but the rest of the world experiences 5 seconds. It's like God's little magic trick He hardwired into us so that no matter how busy we got, we would
always have time to enjoy His handiwork.
But in the blink of an eye it's over, and you go back to work before you crash it into the mountain in front of you.
 
 
A sunset at 41000 ft while racing into the darkness at 625 mph. It goes quick...
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| | Posted 9/26/2007 6:15 PM - 66 Views - 4 eProps - 4 comments
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