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Watching the sun come up

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Hal Denton sent in these photos, taken during an early morning flight over Knoxville, Tenn., heading out over the Smokey Mountains.

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  1. Just a technical point, if you fly west at noon the sun will not appear or disappear. Just a technical point, pilots get very beautiful views from the front seat.

  2. Just a technical point……… the sun does not come up…. nor does it rise…….. it appears in the eastern horizon and disappears in the western horizon…. why?