Andy McPhee sent in this photo, with a brief note: “As a student pilot, there are so many things to learn. Aviation Mechanics, Weather Theory, Calculations and on and on. As a child, I used to go to KBOS to watch the planes land and takeoff and thought it would be “cool” to fly someday. During night flight training with my CFI on my way to KMHT, views like this quickly remind me why I started to fly in the first place and, in many ways, makes all that studying worthwhile.”
Reminds me of a time some years ago when I was flying DC-8s and we made non-stop trips from Europe to the west coast SFO departing in the evening in total darkness only to restore ambient lighting conditions to that of twilight as shown in this photo and holding that lighting condition for much of the 10 plus hour flight that tracked into the arctic circle for a near polar crossing. Made for a pleasant flight avoiding the necessity of staring at a black curtain. The crew was much more alert as a result.