Chicago-Honolulu flight leaves O'Hare snowplows for Hawaiian sprinkles 2011-12-09

Now fully annotated on screen: Passing 25,000 to 30,000 feet below are Mid West towns, the Mississippi, Wyoming plateaux, Rockies peaks, Utah-Nevada desert, California's Central Valley, Sacramento Delta, northern San Francisco Bay, Point Reyes, eastern north Pacific Ocean, Koko Head, downtown Honolulu, Barbers Point, and Ewa Beach on a nine-hour flight condensed into 1/4 its length on a clear day along the complete flight path.

Specific passages:
Beginning of video: Boarding the flight at O'Hare
4:15-4:25 O'Hare snowplow completing a morning's runway clearance operation (seen while taxiing to runway)
5:50 Distant skyline of downtown Chicago (while awaiting takeoff clearance)
7:40 Takeoff on 32R (runway closed in 2015: See-http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20...)
8:40 Maine West High School, Des Plaines IL (X-shaped building)
9:10 Interstate-90 at Elk Grove Village northwest of Chicago
9:45-10:10 Ned Brown Preserve of Cook County IL
10:10-10:20 Schaumburg IL
13:05 Interstate 90 crossing Fox River in north Elgin IL
17:30 Belvidere IL
18:30 Junction of Interstate 90 & Interstate 39 at Cherry Valley IL
19:15 Rock River through Rockford IL
21:40 Pecatonica IL (with oval-shaped Winnebago County Fairgrounds south of Pecatonica River)
23:10 Freeport IL
24:45 US 20 from the east curves into the town of Elizabeth located in the northwest corner of Illinois
25:20 Mississippi River (separating Illinois from Iowa) coming into view
26:00-27:50 Dubuque, IA
28:10 Dubuque Regional Airport (DBQ)
29:00-29:20 Dyersville IA
29:45-30:40 Manchester IA
31:25 Independence IA
32:20-34:25 Cockpit announcement on flight path
33:25 Jesup IA
34:15-35:20 Waterloo IA
34:30 Waterloo Regional Airport (ALO)
35:20-35:50 Cedar Falls IA
36:30 Dike IA
38:10 Dows IA west of Interstate 35
39:50-40:00 Newell IA
40:45-41:30 Storm Lake IA
42:20 Cherokee IA
42:45 Washta IA (coldest place in Iowa), next to Little Sioux River
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washta,...
43:30 Pierson IA
44:10 Kingsley IA
45:10 La Mars IA
46:30 Sioux City IA
46:50-47:25 Big Sioux River separating Iowa from South Dakota
47:35-48:10 Missouri River separating South Dakota (SD) from Nebraska (NE)
48:10-48:25 Ponca NE
48:40-48:50 Missouri River separating South Dakota (SD), above, from Nebraska (NE), below
49:20 Hartington NE
50:05-51:10 Lewis & Clark Lake NE (near side) / SD (far side)
51:20 Bloomfield NE
52:00-53:05 Beginning of Sandhills landscape of western Nebraska
53:05-54:35 Missouri River continues west
55:45 Hyannis NE as Highway 2 / 61 winds west through the Sandhills
1:00:40 Bridgeport NE & North Platte River
1:03:00-1:03:50 Highway 71 south of Scottsbluff NE; leaving Nebraska & entering Wyoming (WY)
1:05:35-1:05:55 Exit 21 of Interstate 25 @ Ridley Road, 14 miles north of Cheyenne Wyoming; beginning of Rockies foothills
1:07:35-1:07:50 Interstate 80 winds west of Cheyenne towards Laramie WY
1:07:50-1:08:15 Laramie WY
1:10:25 Beginning of Snowy Range of Rockies; leaving Wyoming & entering Colorado (CO)
1:23:00- Dinosaur National Monument (CO); leaving Colorado & entering Utah (UT)
1:25:45-1:26:20 Vernal UT
1:28:00-1:28:30 Bottlehollow Reservoir, Fort Duchesne UT
1:28:40-1:29:15 Roosevelt UT
1:31:15 Duchesne UT
1:32:40-1:33:30 Strawberry Reservoir (larger of two lakes)
1:35:00-1:38:45 Wasatch Range
1:38:50-1:39:00 Nephi UT
1:39:30-1:40:05 western Utah ranges; leaving Utah & entering Nevada (NV)
1:42:00-1:43:05 Walker Lake NV; leaving Nevada & entering California (CA)
1:46:45 A fly-along
1:49:00-1:50:20 New Melones Lake CA
1:51:50 Central Valley foothills reservoirs: Camanche (L), Pardee (C), New Hogan (R) CA
1:53:50-1:55:10 Stockton CA
1:55:00 Interstate 5 through northwest Stockton CA
1:55:10 Sacramento River delta
1:57:00-1:58:20 Oakley / Antioch / Pittsburgh / Bay Point (of East San Francisco Bay Area) CA
1:59:00 Interstate 680 crossing the Sacramento River CA
1:59:25 Carquinez Bridge of Interstate 80 crossing Sacramento River
2:00:00-2:00:35 Tormey, Hercules, Pinole (of East San Francisco Bay Area) CA
2:00:40 Northern San Francisco Bay CA
2:01:35-2:02:35 San Rafael CA
2:02:50 Kent Lake CA
2:03:35 Drakes Bay CA
2:04:50 Point Reyes CA
2:05:00 Flight clears North American continent at Point Reyes CA
2:05:00-2:21:45 Crossing the northeastern Pacific to Hawaii
2:12:55-2:16:32 Announcement of Hawaiian agricultural declaration requirements
2;16:58 Arrival weather information from cockpit
2:21:55 Approaching Oahu's windward coast
2:21:55-2:22:50 Koko Head, Hanauma Bay & Hawaii Kai
2:24:15 Downtown Honolulu
2:24:50 Honolulu International Airport (HNL)
2:25:20 Barbers Point
2:29:00 Ewa Beach
2:30:40 Touchdown on runway 8L at HNL
2:34;35 Airside garden in airport terminal
2:35:05 The Bus bus stop in front of terminal

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