<story><title>Eclipse viewing at 30k feet: Delta to offer path-of-totality flight</title><url>https://news.delta.com/eclipse-viewing-30000-feet-delta-offer-path-totality-flight</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mackman</author><text>Story time. In the last total eclipse, I was commuting from Boston to San Francisco a bunch and planned my flight to coincide with the path of totality. I brought enough eclipse glasses for the entire flight. The flight attendants were kind enough to distribute them and even gave them to the pilot and copilot. The flight crew was excited about it and actually got approval a change to their flight plan so that they could bank the plane so that people on both sides of the plane could actually look out the window to see the eclipse. This is back in the days of Virgin America, and as a thank you they sent me a little desk statue of a Virgin America plane. I keep it on my desk in fond memory of my favorite airline. Also got some cool photos of the flight crew and passengers all wearing eclipse glasses. (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mackman.net&amp;#x2F;va.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mackman.net&amp;#x2F;va.jpg&lt;/a&gt;)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>londons_explore</author><text>Banking the plane for people to see is a safety thing.&lt;p&gt;If people think they &lt;i&gt;won&amp;#x27;t&lt;/i&gt; get a chance to see, they might all crowd to one side of the plane, causing enough weight imbalance so as to cause a crash.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a big problem on boats, and there are countless stories of someone on a crowded boat seeing a dolphin, shouting about it, everyone crowds to one side to get closer, and the whole boat capsizes.&lt;p&gt;Regulations now require that boats stay afloat if everyone stands on one side, but the regulations aren&amp;#x27;t perfectly adhered to and that still doesn&amp;#x27;t prevent people crowding to one side enough to push&amp;#x2F;knock others overboard.</text></comment>
<story><title>Eclipse viewing at 30k feet: Delta to offer path-of-totality flight</title><url>https://news.delta.com/eclipse-viewing-30000-feet-delta-offer-path-totality-flight</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mackman</author><text>Story time. In the last total eclipse, I was commuting from Boston to San Francisco a bunch and planned my flight to coincide with the path of totality. I brought enough eclipse glasses for the entire flight. The flight attendants were kind enough to distribute them and even gave them to the pilot and copilot. The flight crew was excited about it and actually got approval a change to their flight plan so that they could bank the plane so that people on both sides of the plane could actually look out the window to see the eclipse. This is back in the days of Virgin America, and as a thank you they sent me a little desk statue of a Virgin America plane. I keep it on my desk in fond memory of my favorite airline. Also got some cool photos of the flight crew and passengers all wearing eclipse glasses. (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mackman.net&amp;#x2F;va.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mackman.net&amp;#x2F;va.jpg&lt;/a&gt;)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>seper8</author><text>That is so cool, honestly you have probably contributed to a core memory of everyone on that flight... Really no words.</text></comment>