Flight pictures New York, July 2005 − Travels − Captain Tom

Flight pictures New York, July 2005

Again New York for business. No time for sightseeing there but I had window seats on both flights and I used the opportunity for taking some pictures

1 Departure

We start eastbound from Airport Berlin Tegel to Pankow and Weißensee and make a U-turn to proceed westbound. A lot of dust in the air. I sit on the right side of the airplane.

Westhafen. Beussel bridge to the right

Market at Westhafen. In the background the big park Tiergarten, to the left the congress hall and railway fly-over at Perleberger Straße

Upper left Lehrter Bahnhof railway station. To the right the railway fly-over and left Schering Pharma buildings

In the middle Lehrter Bahnhof railway station, behid it Tiergarten and governmental buildings. The tent like building is Tempodrom. To the lower left the area of the former Stadium of the youth of the world.

Gesundbrunnen railway station. The road from the upper middle to the middle right is Brunnenstraße.

City train junction Nordkreuz. The road below is Bornholmer Straße, the bridge in the middle is Behmstrasse

City center with Alexanderplatz and TV tower. The road towards lower left is Prenzlauer Allee. The road towards upper right is Pappelallee. Left from it Helmholzplatz Square

Peoples Park Friedrichshain in hte middle. The road going from the middle right to the lower middle is Greifswalder Straße. To the right Thälmann Park and directly left to it City train station Greifswalder Straße

White lake (Weißer See) in Weißensee

Lake Orankesee

After the U-turn we fly along Autobahn A10

Autobahn exit Mühlenbeck and Summt with Lake Summter See.

Flying

Rathenow at river Havel. Below highspeed train track Berlin-Hannover. The bridge in the middle is for B188 country road

Military training area between Rathenow and Stendal. Below the highspeed train track

Below Schönhausen at river Elbe south of Tangermünde

Stendal. B188 bypasses the city. Structure above is Airfield Stendal-Borstel

Airport Hannover-Langenhagen. Autobahn A352 goes across the picture.

Lake Steinhuder Meer west of Hannover

River Weser north of Minden (Lahde, Petershagen, Windheim). In the second picture one can see power plant Lahde

Shore of North Sea close to Amsterdam with Lake Weisteinderplassen. In the very distance Port of Amsterdam (Ijmuiden)

Lake Braassemermeer in the middle.

Den Haag

Harwich. A week ago I was there and took the ferry back to Germany

Mountains in South Wales. Might be Blak Mountains but air is quite dusty.

Cardigan Bay and Cardigan Island at western Shore of Wales

Limmerick in Ireland with River Shannon

Irish Atlantic shore at Doonbeg, north of Kilkee. The bigger island is Mutton Island. The arched shore is White Strand

Donegal Point the lower of the two lobes

Approach to Newark with view to New York. Bayonne bridge. In the background Manhattan

Tanker and towboat in the oil port

container port

Touch down in Newark - the famous view at the horizon

2 The Flight back

starts again in Newark. Weather is quite good but there is some smog above the city. I sit on the right hand side again. Plane takes off southwestbound and makes a left U-turn northeastbound. So I get another view to Manhattan

Ready for take-off