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Approaching the west coast of Florida around Fort Myers on UA1142 we were greeted by a wall of thunder storms.

Daily Photo – Storm over Fort Myers Part 2

The cruising speed of a Boeing 737 is a shade over 500 miles per hour (all things being equal) so we’d traveled about eight miles closer to the cloud wall. Add to that the cloud wall was moving west, towards us and that yields the change in the cloud shapes between the two photo-sets.

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British Airways Boeing 777

Daily Photo – British Airways Boeing 777

Last summer I took this shot of a British Airways 777 heading west in a cloud-free sky over the Marlborough Downs. I know it’s a British Airways plane because at 100% view, you can see the familiar BA tail markings.

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