The Flight (Feb 21st)
Left Heathrow at 15:35, arrived in Los Angeles at 18:20, which was pretty quick if you ask me. However, in reality, it was 19 hours of daylight and very little sleep.
Cloud cover until we reached the coast of Canada. Yes ... Canada!!! The plane headed over Wales and Ireland, brushed the south coast of Greenland and then to Canada. Dunno why. I'd have thought that over the Scilly Isles would be better, but ho hum ... what do I know?
Canada appears to be frozen solid, but was an awesome sight. This was probably not unreasonable as the temperature outside the aircraft was -60 degrees Celsius ... plus a bit lower if you add in the wind chill factor of 575mph. Hudson bay looked particularly impressive in its half frozen state. Even the USA was frozen over as well. I never imagined that the little town of Rock Ridge (famous in Westerns) would be frozen over.
Saw Las Vegas from the plane ... or at least I saw some town in that vicinity with loads of flashing lights.
On landing at Los Angeles, we were greeted by a friendly official, who was quite chirpy when taking our finger print and eyeball images. I never expected that.
The flight from LA to Auckland was a bit dull, but there's a limit to what you can see over the Pacific in the dark.
Cloud cover until we reached the coast of Canada. Yes ... Canada!!! The plane headed over Wales and Ireland, brushed the south coast of Greenland and then to Canada. Dunno why. I'd have thought that over the Scilly Isles would be better, but ho hum ... what do I know?
Canada appears to be frozen solid, but was an awesome sight. This was probably not unreasonable as the temperature outside the aircraft was -60 degrees Celsius ... plus a bit lower if you add in the wind chill factor of 575mph. Hudson bay looked particularly impressive in its half frozen state. Even the USA was frozen over as well. I never imagined that the little town of Rock Ridge (famous in Westerns) would be frozen over.
Saw Las Vegas from the plane ... or at least I saw some town in that vicinity with loads of flashing lights.
On landing at Los Angeles, we were greeted by a friendly official, who was quite chirpy when taking our finger print and eyeball images. I never expected that.
The flight from LA to Auckland was a bit dull, but there's a limit to what you can see over the Pacific in the dark.
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