September 30th, 2016 | Updated on January 11th, 2023
An airline pilot Christiaan van Heijst has captured incredible photos from the cockpit of 747 jumbo jets around the world. Here’s a selection of some of his photos showing the weather and night skies.
1. A huge thunderstorm cloud casts a huge shadow over the state of Minnesota
2. The Northern Lights from inside the cockpit of an airliner
3. Rays of sunlight streaming through clouds in Latacunga, Ecuador
4. The Milky Way glowing over Calcutta, India
5. A sunset over the Atlantic Ocean
6. A bright full moon illuminating clouds below
7. Sunlight streaming through clouds onto the state of Alaska
8. Glowing auroras above, glowing thunderstorms below
9. Thunderstorms over Toronto, Canada, as seen from the cockpit of a plane
10. Thunderstorm at sunset
11. St Elmos fire on 747 windows
12. Attention Cargolux 661 Heavy, Kansas City Center
13. Cruising over Siberia, the midnight summer sun stays close
14. Clouds over the vast and seemingly infinite Sahara
15. Sunset over Greenland; the ice covered ocean and the icy mountains
16. Taken last week over Northern China
17. Very heavy thunderstorms over Eastern China
18. A path through stormy skies
19. Sunset over Mongolia
20. A beautiful sunset over the Chinese part of the Himalaya mountains, the Roof of the World
21. Moonrise over Greenland While the sun has just dropped below the horizon
22. While flying over the always cold Greenland landscapes
23. Sunset over the Grand Canyon, Arizona
Source:jpcvanheijst.com