After a Delta flight from Dallas-Fort Worth to Detroit during the eclipse, passengers shared their enthusiasm about the unusual journey.
The airline’s resident meteorologist, Warren Weston, was on the flight and said that while there were concerns about a thunderstorm in Dallas this afternoon, the experienced pilots delivered a remarkable experience.
Warren Weston, Manager of Meteorology at Delta, speaks about planning that went into today’s path-of-totality flight from Dallas-Fort Worth to Detroit and the experience onboard during the eclipse #Eclipse2024 pic.twitter.com/LC6Cwxej9H
— Brendan Gutenschwager (@BGOnTheScene) April 8, 2024
“I thought it was great,” Weston said in a video shared on X by journalist Brendan Gutenschwager. “You can tell it got very dark. I looked out of the window and I could see the shadow out on the ground. You could see it on the horizon kind of diminishing as you went further out, so it was obvious that we were right in the totality. I thought that was pretty cool.”
Weston said he and his team planned 24 to 36 hours in advance to be sure the route was perfect.
“We looked at a lot of data to be able to tell where we were going to enter the eclipse, that we were going to have good viewing, good visibility,” he explained. “The first part of our flight, we were kind of in the clouds over Texas and part of Arkansas, then they opened up.”
“It worked out pretty well,” Weston said.
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