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The Violet Stripe


The exact moment the sun hits the horizon, turn around 180 degrees. This flight, it's winter over Iran, and the Full Moon is just rising; but, more interesting is the violet stripe which appears for just a minute. It shows the curvature of the earth, proving to pilots that we are flying over a planet; the thin edge is towards the summer pole.




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The images from the speech: "From an A380 cockpit"
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