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From https://petapixel.com/2016/07/07/pilot-captures-incredible-thunderstorm-photo-37000-feet/
JUL 07, 2016 DL CADE
If youre less-than-impressed with lightning captured at 240fps by an iPhone 6 Plus, then let this photo act as our apology. Captured from 37,000 feet above the Pacific ocean, it is, without a doubt, one of the most spectacular aerial storm images we have ever seen.
The photo was captured by photographer and airline pilot Santiago Borja, who shared the story behind it with The Washington Post yesterday. The photo, captured while circling around the storm on his way to South America, was shot with a Nikon D750, and it was more difficult to capture than you might think.
Storms are tricky because the lightning is so fast, there is no tripod, and there is a lot of reflection from inside light, he told the Post. Still, somehow, the seasoned pilot who calls flying and photography his two greatest passions managed to get the shot.
To see more of Borjas photossome captured from the ground, others from 37,000 feetbe sure to pay his website a visit or give him a follow on Instagram.
still_one
(92,492 posts)3catwoman3
(24,088 posts)...genius. That is spectacular!
yesphan
(1,588 posts)That would make a great Yes album cover.
MontanaMama
(23,366 posts)erronis
(15,428 posts)while all hell's is breaking loose on earth.
druidity33
(6,450 posts)atmosphere. Totally.
BigmanPigman
(51,648 posts)"Those are some puffy clouds!". I guess this rocket scientist/brain surgeon can't memorize the simple names of clouds. My first graders never had that problem. I guess they would be overqualified for that position.
earthshine
(1,642 posts)It has to do with new atmospheric conditions created by global warming and also, rampant streak-across-the-sky airplane exhaust, which turns into clouds.
N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,793 posts)Home of the International Cloud Atlas. Anything you ever wanted to know about clouds.
beaglelover
(3,496 posts)The lightening was beautiful.
burrowowl
(17,654 posts)DFW
(54,476 posts)They are spectacular to behold.
When I first started in my job, I was in Boston and got sent on some urgent thing to Los Angeles, and had to leave THAT SECOND. It was already late afternoon, and the flight left at night, stopping in St. Louis. Weird routing and departure time (this was September, 1975), but that was the deal, and the last nonstop had already left for the day. On route somewhere was an incredible lightning storm below us. I was tired and wanted to sleep, but just couldn't until we had left the storm completely behind us.
calimary
(81,562 posts)AllaN01Bear
(18,669 posts)WiffenPoof
(2,404 posts)Does it look a little like a detonation?
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)A thunderstorm is a result of a lifting action that lifts moisture to extreme altitudes. If they rise high enough to get into the jet stream you get something that looks like an anvil.
When the convection is strong enough to lift the clouds, but not strong enough to create a thunderstorm, you can fly around and through them.
https://vimeo.com/137554534
ThoughtCriminal
(14,050 posts)On second thought... NOPE!
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)I think they were trying to top a thunderstorm and flamed out one or both engines, then got into an unrecoverable spin.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/06/fourteen-dead-after-private-jet-crashes-between-las-vegas-and-mexico-media.html
ThoughtCriminal
(14,050 posts)Several family friends lost in that crash.
Two engines flamed out from rain and hail when they went through a squall line. Bad news in a DC-9.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Airways_Flight_242
Codeine
(25,586 posts)is Put down the camera and fly the damned plane! but Im sure he has a co-pilot and a suite of autopilot functions.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)You turn it off just prior to landing.