Seat with a View

Last Thursday when I was traveling home from Tucson, Arizona, I wound up in a window seat.  I never sit by the window.  I like the bit of extra space and freedom the aisle offers.  Anyway, I was very lucky to catch this flight, so I was just happy to be on board and not in a middle seat.  I had a my shade down while we were waiting to take off when I heard this very loud plane either land or take off.  It was so loud I figured the plane must have just gone over us.  In a few minutes, the same thing happened.  This is fairly unusual because, as you might imagine, it's somewhat dangerous to be in the path of a 747, so being in the window seat, I opened my shade to see what was going on.  Little did I know a 747 had not just landed or taken off, but rather a series of F-15 fighter jets were taking off and they were LOUD.  I got to see 6 jets take off, and it was really cool!  Since my window shade was already up, I left it that way, and a while later I got a view of the Arizona wildfires.  See the white smoke over the black area...

 
Who knew there was so much to see from the window seat?