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This great photo of Manhattan as seen from an airliner on its landing approach comes from the blog of another mutual Friend of Torrez, a fellow I only know as "Vidiot". Here's a larger version of the picture on his photo blog.
As I said on the flickr page for this picture, when I used to fly back and forth to New York on the Delta/USAir shuttles, my favorite part of the flight was when the landing approach took us directly over Manhattan like this, getting lower and lower past the skyscrapers as the plane made it's last big turn over the southern tip of Manhattan.
I stopped making that regular trip to New York in 1999 and didn't fly into New York again for several years, during which time the world changed drastically. Apparently it's possible once again to have this view flying into the city, but I personally can't help but think of 9/11 and the people on those planes that morning, flying the same route. Vidiot pointed me to this 2003 Salon "Ask The Pilot" column, where the columnist, Patrick Smith (a former airline pilot) talks about his own impressions of flying this approach.
(Oh, and Vidiot also makes a mean pot of chicken stock)
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