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Pilot Captures Magnificent Images from the Cockpit and They Will Blow You Away
#2 and #4 are the best!
While it’s not always a joy to travel by plane, particularly if you’re in for a long haul flight, there are good things about it, too. Aside from the lovely flight attendants and the free liquor, the stunning view from above can make a lengthy trip worthwhile.
Once the plane hits several thousand feet in altitude, we are greeted by skies so clear and blue, and clouds so fluffy you’d just want to die. Well, if there isn’t any storm, that is. But you see, nature was made in such a manner that everything about it is beautiful – even storms and lightning.
Santiago Borja-Lopez, a pilot who works for Ecuador Airlines, documented the beauty of lightning and storm clouds by taking photos of the magnificent view from the cockpit and posting them on his website and Instagram account. BoredPanda compiled some of these amazing shots – let’s all take a look:
1. "A colossal cumulonimbus flashes over the Pacific Ocean as we circle around it at 37000 feet en route to South America."
2. "I've never seen any lightning like this one."
3. An ominous storm over Panama City
4. Night flashes, Atlantic Ocean
5. Night sky
6. Magic
7. Flying over the Colombian Amazonia, about to enter Ecuadorian airspace to descend over the Andes into Guayaquil.
8. A magnificent storm developing over the Atlantic Ocean, a few miles south of Jamaica.
9. Tormenta, Coast of Venezuela, South America
10. Mooning around, super moon, at 2900m in Quito, Ecuador.
11. "Looking like a nuclear explosion, this great cumulonimbus is discharging its power over the Colombian rainforest."
12. Fugaz, Atlantic Ocean, North of Panama City
13. Atomic storm
14. The Amazonia between Ecuador and Colombia
15. Soaring, Guayaquil, Ecuador
16. A storm over the Colombian Amazona
17. Sunset, Quito, Ecuador
18. Cloud City, Quito, Ecuador
19. The orbit in an atmosphere unknown, Ecuador
20. Blinding storm
21. Vertical development, Ecuador
22. One of those clear days over Miami
23. Fierce, Guayaquil, Ecuador
24. Storm hour, Amazonia, South America
25. Cruising out, Quito, Ecuador
