Day 2 Philly, Detroit, DC, and Nashville

Well I have been flying all day and boy are my arms tired. Get it! Today was another long day. 12 hours with a 3 am get up. We started out in Philly this morning as you can see the cockpit view of the Philly terminal and went to Detroit. The picture of the Island is just outside of Detroit and is a memorial for Admiral Perry. Look him up. Pretty famous guy. Hard to believe there is a huge lake around Detroit. One of the big shipping lanes. When you fly over it, it feels like you are in the middle of the ocean. It is that big. That picture is from 20 thousand feet.

The next picture is of the Detroit Terminal. This is the new International terminal where Northwest flys most of the giant airplanes over seas. When they are all lined up in the morning it is pretty impressive. These airplanes will fly for 12 to 14 hours straight to reach there destinations. Most of them have beds in them for the pilots to take breaks. That is what I need.

The last picture is on Final approach to DC. This time we were flying in from the south up the river. If you look on a map you will see the DC airport has water on both ends. It is one of the shortest runways we fly into and is very tricky. You don't want to mess up here or you have to swim. It is a beautiful view of the city in front of the airport. If you look closely at the picture you will see the airplane in front of us landing. That airplane will land and they will squeeze another plane in front of us to take off. He will be lifting off as we land. The airports are getting very crowded and they have to squeeze them together like that.

I have a few more pictures of DC and on to Nashville. I will be back tomorrow after we go to Memphis and New York.