Mark Cook submitted this photo of an airplane shadow on the clouds, taken from a Beech Queen Air over Grand Rapids, Minn.
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…..ICE…..
.(below freezing of course)
I have a few images just like that from several months ago when my friend Steve & I were flying from the Chicago area out to Dubuque. Pretty neat to see.
This is called a Glory!
‘Tis called the ‘pilots halo’ – which it really is.
I made a video clip of a shadow in clouds with my 185 in the way to Island Lake Manitoba
Have that happen a couple of times. Really cool.