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Landmarks you've ONLY seen from an airplane
For me, the most interesting landmark I've only seen from an airplane is the Arch in St Louis. About 20 years ago I was flying home from Canada when the pilot announced we were flying over St. Louis. I followed the river with my eyes until I saw the Arch. We were in mid-flight so it looked like a paper clip, but I was still happy to have seen it.
A few years later I was on a trip that involved a layover in St. Louis. As we flew into St. Louis I kept looking but I didn't see it. But when my connecting flight took off from St Louis, OMG there it was, in all it's glory!! It was the most perfect view, I almost thought we were going to fly into it. I still want to see it from the ground someday but at least I can say I've seen it. So how about you? |
Not a landmark, but farmland from the air looked like corduroy and velvet.
A fantasyland look alike castle in England whose identity I can't determine. |
The Grand Canyon
Mt. Hood Oregon The strip in Las Vegas I’d like to see the first two from the ground, but really don’t care if I ever set foot on the Vegas strip or not. I’m unlikely to make a special effort to do so. I’ll have to think some more - there may be others. |
Niagara Falls. Also Windsor Castle. Here's a photo of the latter on approach to Heathrow last April.
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There are probably others but Mt. Kilimanjaro is the only one coming to mind. It was exciting to see.
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Great pic ms go!!
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The Leaning Tower of Pisa
The Swiss Alps |
The Rock of Gibraltar. We actually took off from Gibraltar to go to Morocco but you really didn’t get a view of the Rock from the airport. Airport may be too generous a term, it was basically an airstrip in the middle of the road. This was on our honeymoon back in 1988. It was exciting at the time.
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Grand Canyon
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Mount Ranier was never visible on 2 trips to Seattle area, but when we flew there to take an Alaskan cruise, we saw it! It was gorgeous!
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Grand Canyon, Statue of Liberty, World Trade Center, Central Park, Mt. Hood,
SS United States. https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fod...0e298226f9.jpg SS United States: approach to PHL. Last winner of the Blue Riband, 1952, 35.5 kts or 63.89 kph |
I could have sworn I posted this in the lounge.
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You did. The name has now been changed to “Threads you only saw when lost”.
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Originally Posted by P_M
(Post 17425850)
I could have sworn I posted this in the lounge.
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Angel Falls, Venezuela. But it was an exciting flight in a light plane through Devil's Canyon.
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Also a landscape, not a landmark, but Greenland (pictured below) and, even better, a crystalline winter polar ice cap of the coast of Alaska after flying over an active volcano in the Aleutians. That was amazing!
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The Swiss Alps!
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Monument Valley
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The Matterhorn
The Sahara Desert Wild coast of Labrador Mountains of Greenland |
The White Cliffs of Dover
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