Alaska Airlines Great American Eclipse flight

Catching a solar eclipse in a plane might seem like a flight of fancy, but we’re not ones to turn down a challenge. Alaska Airlines put together a team of aviators, astronomers and umbraphiles to catch The Great American Eclipse on August 21, 2017. The result? A once-in-a-lifetime view of totality from 38,000. Details: blog.alaskaair.com/alaska-air...
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  • @michaelsteinberg3272
    @michaelsteinberg32726 жыл бұрын

    The best part is that you can literally see the edge of the shadow.

  • @michaelsteinberg3272

    @michaelsteinberg3272

    6 жыл бұрын

    Hippie Skater 😂

  • @simplydifferent7712

    @simplydifferent7712

    6 жыл бұрын

    In the end, yeah wowww!

  • @slanderous.j
    @slanderous.j6 жыл бұрын

    I was lucky enough to get to watch the totality from right off my back deck of my house in South Carolina USA. Lawn chair, glasses, video cam, some beer, and a once in a lifetime event. A big thank you to the good lord for the amazing show!

  • @MatthewReiser123
    @MatthewReiser1236 жыл бұрын

    For those criticizing the repeated "OMG", just know that totality is nothing like anything you've ever experienced. During the 1991 total eclipse, I was in La Paz, Baja Mexico, saying the same "OMG" >10x as well. Incredible experience.

  • @laserfloyd

    @laserfloyd

    6 жыл бұрын

    I think people have two modes, OMG mode and speechless mode. I was speechless a couple of weeks ago. I literally couldn't think of what to say right at totality. :) EDIT: And starwars mode before totality "Almost there..."

  • @haydenthilges6175

    @haydenthilges6175

    6 жыл бұрын

    Matthew Reiser q

  • @anthonyserrano8835

    @anthonyserrano8835

    10 ай бұрын

    I remember that eclipse, I was only 6 years old 🙈

  • @goldeneye70

    @goldeneye70

    2 ай бұрын

    I was in Cherokee, North Carolina for that eclipse and it was a full eclipse right in the middle of the path. I didn't say oh my god. I just looked at it which lasted about 3 minutes or so, things got dark, the Cherokee started whooping all around you because you're up very high on Soho mountain on Cherokee land. It was very cool but it's just an eclipse. Why is the media telling us to get more food, water and fuel for this one? Why is the April 8th eclipse being turned into something biblical? The answer is to scare the shit out of everyone, and it's working. Because now they will do things like shut down the phones or even the power grid for a while and blame it on a cosmic event! Now that's if they do that and when I mean they, I'm talking about the people that control and own everything. So buckle up and get the popcorn ready, the eighth day, the eight cities and the year equaling 8, this eclipse is biblical according to many sources and the media, when it's just an eclipse. They want you to be afraid, be very, very afraid.

  • @surfacepro2004

    @surfacepro2004

    2 ай бұрын

    I was in La Paz...nobody cares

  • @chasickle
    @chasickle6 жыл бұрын

    Oh my god Look at that Oh my god Oh my god The moooons shadow Look at that Diamond ring Prominences Totality Oh my god Look at that Oh my god

  • @xBloodXGusherx

    @xBloodXGusherx

    6 жыл бұрын

    hahahahaha!

  • @natecorn2007

    @natecorn2007

    6 жыл бұрын

    omg omgom omgom omg

  • @liezelanne777

    @liezelanne777

    6 жыл бұрын

    LMFAO

  • @xBloodXGusherx

    @xBloodXGusherx

    6 жыл бұрын

    Fuck you and your victorian bride babes bitch.

  • @CMatomic

    @CMatomic

    6 жыл бұрын

    "it's coming" "Oh my god"

  • @FlightChops
    @FlightChops6 жыл бұрын

    Winner of the coolest eclipse video :) This is marketing done right.

  • @stellviahohenheim

    @stellviahohenheim

    Ай бұрын

    shut up with your marketing nobody likes ads

  • @minitwatch
    @minitwatch6 жыл бұрын

    That was epic! Alaska, you are rad.

  • @klaudia.s9377
    @klaudia.s93776 жыл бұрын

    I can watch this again and again. Amazing.

  • @merlotcrush1969
    @merlotcrush19696 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much for sharing that experience

  • @pichardo2227
    @pichardo22276 жыл бұрын

    Fantastic!!! Unique view

  • @hisunilg
    @hisunilg4 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely amazing eclipse video. Watching moon's shadow moving away on the clouds at 0:30, and then again at 0:51, OMG, simply the best ever phenomenon seen in a video.

  • @abhinendrasinghgautam3286

    @abhinendrasinghgautam3286

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes! It was best place to see such cosmic event

  • @mitsocat7443
    @mitsocat74436 жыл бұрын

    This is amazing. I wish I was on that flight... I lived 99% of the eclipse.

  • @flygrl755
    @flygrl7556 жыл бұрын

    so completely amazing! Thanks for sharing Alaska Air! :)

  • @skylerreddy5436
    @skylerreddy54366 жыл бұрын

    So cool! Thank for sharing.

  • @baselsalam
    @baselsalam6 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful, and amazing technological feat of a flight plan!

  • @michaelvitiello9960
    @michaelvitiello9960Ай бұрын

    This had to be so special.

  • @jonnyzi
    @jonnyzi6 жыл бұрын

    I was hoping someone would capture it from the air! thanks!

  • @GeorgeGraves
    @GeorgeGraves6 жыл бұрын

    You'all lost my bags once. All if forgiven for this. You rock.

  • @tomatosoupwoo

    @tomatosoupwoo

    3 жыл бұрын

    They aren’t responsible for non carry on luggage. It’s the airports ground crew that is responsible.

  • @tomatosoupwoo

    @tomatosoupwoo

    3 жыл бұрын

    Very late reply yaay

  • @serenafanlife4226
    @serenafanlife42266 жыл бұрын

    Amazing!

  • @MileHigh_Aviation
    @MileHigh_Aviation6 жыл бұрын

    Wow this is so beutifull!!!

  • @StrotherPitzke
    @StrotherPitzke2 ай бұрын

    It’s 2024! I took Alaska Airlines to fly to Mazatlan!!! 2 weeks until TOTALITY!!!!

  • @HugoKamash
    @HugoKamash6 жыл бұрын

    Nice . I love it.

  • @GEU1164
    @GEU11646 жыл бұрын

    Amazing

  • @bambamh2067
    @bambamh20676 жыл бұрын

    VERY COOL !

  • @Dr_Mario2007
    @Dr_Mario2007Ай бұрын

    I wouldn't be surprised if Alaska Airlines would want to do the solar eclipse chase someday as a tour especially after getting the next generation SSTs. That would be an epic experience for sure, with totality lasting as long as possible, especially replicating the famous Concorde flight from the 1973.

  • @dvarenne
    @dvarenneАй бұрын

    I saw the eclipse from the ground on Monday. Your brain short circuits at a sight of that magnitude. So I don't blame that guy going nuts on the video, I would just watch it with the sound off, because I was saying the same thing. I'm impressed he wasn't cursing.

  • @saurabhkambliSaukaONE
    @saurabhkambliSaukaONE6 жыл бұрын

    I can still hear Oh my god , look at that !!!

  • @rpgiv3175
    @rpgiv31756 жыл бұрын

    Were u over carbondale

  • @GlenShannon
    @GlenShannon6 жыл бұрын

    Did the plane lean to the one side with everyone huddling around the windows?

  • @alexsis8980
    @alexsis89803 жыл бұрын

    In 1996 I was six years old, but I even remember well how I felt that for a moment the temperature in the room became a little cool from the eclipse of the Sun.

  • @dankuettel5063
    @dankuettel50636 жыл бұрын

    That was so bad ass!!

  • @NikkiNaydances
    @NikkiNaydances6 жыл бұрын

    really? you got just the vid of the eclipse? Great commercial for Alaska Air...

  • @NewMediaFormat
    @NewMediaFormat6 жыл бұрын

    Great!!

  • @logansaviationadventures
    @logansaviationadventures3 жыл бұрын

    How do you get on the flight?

  • @TrippyJV
    @TrippyJV6 жыл бұрын

    was waiting for that guy to say "HAA GOTTEEEM"

  • @ahmadyfh6186
    @ahmadyfh61866 жыл бұрын

    Look at it !

  • @HexNottingham
    @HexNottingham6 жыл бұрын

    What the heck? Did I just get suckered into watching a bloody commercial? LOL!

  • @carmenbecerra8979
    @carmenbecerra89792 жыл бұрын

    Nice

  • @christinathatch2949
    @christinathatch2949Ай бұрын

    As much as I would love to see it from the air, there are so many little things you miss out on if you're not on the ground. You can feel the air become cooler. And you're shadow becomes elongated and thin

  • @kilroy987

    @kilroy987

    Ай бұрын

    And one flight delay is all it takes to miss it, when you could have planned to be somewhere else for it.

  • @czatproductions
    @czatproductions6 жыл бұрын

    Wow!!

  • @samuelkhamliansang
    @samuelkhamliansangАй бұрын

    What's the song name?

  • @SueMead
    @SueMead6 жыл бұрын

    When words simply fail you.

  • @boywithadolphin
    @boywithadolphin4 жыл бұрын

    Feel sorry for those not near the window. I have traveled to 18 eclipses the best we’re Philippines 1988 and turkey 2006

  • @jeremyhodgins
    @jeremyhodginsАй бұрын

    Just look at it!

  • @Britishful
    @Britishful6 жыл бұрын

    music?

  • @CenturySD
    @CenturySD6 жыл бұрын

    Hey look... another fish eye lens video. Thanks, Alaska Airlines!

  • @donghustlehard2501
    @donghustlehard25016 жыл бұрын

    lookkkk at thattt

  • @smportis
    @smportis6 жыл бұрын

    The shadow at 0:33!!!!!

  • @Tyrgaroth
    @Tyrgaroth6 жыл бұрын

    Can you blame the guy :D I would be so excited too :D

  • @mattafakkah
    @mattafakkah6 жыл бұрын

    Oh my god, would you look at that, I mean just look at it

  • @schmoab
    @schmoab6 жыл бұрын

    "I had a window seat, but I was on the wrong side of the plane so I just took a nap"

  • @shxbxnxxnsxri

    @shxbxnxxnsxri

    4 жыл бұрын

    Haha!!

  • @museluvr
    @museluvr6 жыл бұрын

    Got me crying again.. damn it. 0:31 First time in countless videos watched of this extremely beautiful event that I saw the shadow effect, and it.. wow.

  • @jennifercain6900

    @jennifercain6900

    6 жыл бұрын

    Glad I'm not the only one

  • @coopergates9680

    @coopergates9680

    6 жыл бұрын

    Shown much longer in this video... but you might want to mute it ;P kzread.info/dash/bejne/i3ajw5pqqKjcfqQ.html

  • @jellybrown
    @jellybrown6 жыл бұрын

    How good is Alaska? I want to know when Virgin America merges with Alaska in 2019.

  • @tomatosoupwoo

    @tomatosoupwoo

    3 жыл бұрын

    Alaska is amazing.

  • @danielgreene89
    @danielgreene89Ай бұрын

    "Sorry our Boeing door panels blew off mid-flight. But look! An eclipse!"

  • @videogame9808
    @videogame98088 ай бұрын

    Tudo plano

  • @ncr7922
    @ncr79226 жыл бұрын

    0:26 Ma'am, please do not put your hand on that handle.

  • @moveaxebx
    @moveaxebx6 жыл бұрын

    Alaska Airlines, I have a question: Do you always offer that on your flights?

  • @andreah6175
    @andreah61756 жыл бұрын

    The other video where the guy does a play by play like a sportscaster is better ; )

  • @richy12349

    @richy12349

    6 жыл бұрын

    Andrea H oh my god!

  • @donghustlehard2501

    @donghustlehard2501

    6 жыл бұрын

    Andrea H sounds like the professor off The Simpsons.

  • @spoiledrottengreatdane9580

    @spoiledrottengreatdane9580

    6 жыл бұрын

    Totality!

  • @liezelanne777

    @liezelanne777

    6 жыл бұрын

    Diamond ring!

  • @donbeck8835

    @donbeck8835

    6 жыл бұрын

    That may be him at 0:38

  • @srgjohnsonson
    @srgjohnsonson6 жыл бұрын

    It's not the moon it's Rahu

  • @Musicvibe881
    @Musicvibe8816 жыл бұрын

    0:16 flat earthers be like.. that curve looks flat.

  • @mikeohernia5498

    @mikeohernia5498

    6 жыл бұрын

    Airline windows have a curve to release pressure stress

  • @charleysturbos7320

    @charleysturbos7320

    6 жыл бұрын

    The camera's fish eyed lenses are distorting the shots it's obvious. Go look at a basic google search and type in flat horizon pictures and you will get thousands. 35,ooo feet isnt jack. I've seen 219,ooo with no curve. And hundreds at all levels. Their is no eight inches curve squared per mile anywhere on this plain. Sea level, air plane not air curve and sea curve. Ask the pilot what the gyroscope does. Look up people bringing aboard levels during flight or on their phones. Notice the 5oo miles per hour plane doesn't have to constantly drop the nose for a 166,666. 666 inch supposed curve in an hour. Crazy how the curvature rate seems to often use 666 with these freemasons and their science.

  • @charleysturbos7320

    @charleysturbos7320

    6 жыл бұрын

    Then you see the 31 second mark and you realize , damn i shouldn't of spoken up. Go pro in your 16 seconds will do that. They have 2oo,ooo footage from Navy jet that shows flat horizon. You never ever ever see curve or measure the curve of eight inches squared anywhere or anytime except NASA cgi or wide angle fish eyed lenses.

  • @ir8free

    @ir8free

    6 жыл бұрын

    charleysturbos We do measure curvature and horizon drop with precise tools, at least 10 mi above sea level. Your eyes are shallow.

  • @ir8free

    @ir8free

    6 жыл бұрын

    Mike O'Hernia They have a small hole in the middle to do that.

  • @abbreviateTome
    @abbreviateTome6 жыл бұрын

    0:53 something extremely disturbing, for size reference, I googled how wide is the moon and it's roughly 2200 miles. I then google how wide is the united stated, its roughly 2700 miles coast to coast.thats a small difference between them. why does that shadow seem only a couple hundred miles across? 😨😱

  • @audiohostem

    @audiohostem

    2 жыл бұрын

    It has to do with the immense size of the sun relative to the moon and earth. If you have a large light source shining onto something, and then place a small obstruction in between, the large light source will spill light over and around the obstruction, and the shadow cast by it will be smaller than the obstruction itself. The larger the distance between the obstruction and the surface the light is originally being shown at, the smaller the shadow will be. I probably did a poor job of explaining it but if you Google search "how big is the solar eclipse shadow" and go to the images tab, there should be a lot of diagrams that explain it better.

  • @afwannurdin2257
    @afwannurdin22576 жыл бұрын

    Android Oreo released when solar eclipse

  • @seanpeters3690
    @seanpeters36906 жыл бұрын

    Does anyone know the route of this flight?

  • @francissheehan3520

    @francissheehan3520

    9 ай бұрын

    My wife and I were on our honeymoon and randomly happened to end up on this flight from Anchorage to Honolulu. Truly amazing experience that we will never forget!!!!!

  • @francissheehan3520

    @francissheehan3520

    9 ай бұрын

    Correction, this was the second time Alaska Air did this. This one was specifically to see the totality. It left from Portland OR and returned there after viewing the eclipse. We were on the original flight in 2015 that left from Anchorage and landed in Honolulu.

  • @seanpeters3690

    @seanpeters3690

    9 ай бұрын

    @@francissheehan3520 okay thank you 😊

  • @imalright2837
    @imalright28374 жыл бұрын

    Guy: 0:17 KZread: *COPY STRIKE*

  • @christianbass10
    @christianbass10Ай бұрын

    Basically eclipse happen all the time just hlso happens they occur in different places.

  • @j.w.r3730
    @j.w.r37304 жыл бұрын

    Talk about a once in a lifetime...add,lol

  • @andrematiashermann
    @andrematiashermann6 жыл бұрын

    Primeiramente que momento espetacular,que Deus perfeito o nosso que criou tudo isso,e esse vídeo mostra claramente a curvatura da terra o que vai contra a teoria da terra plana,e acredito que quem fez esse vídeo não está querendo passar uma mentira pro povo....

  • @tewiastudios
    @tewiastudiosАй бұрын

    It is called a solar eclipse not 'American eclipse'

  • @shibaplays
    @shibaplays6 жыл бұрын

    airlines using space to advertise now xd

  • @donnamccarthy5536
    @donnamccarthy55362 жыл бұрын

    Amazing guys!! Also if that view is not enough to make one at least contemplate a plan/flat earth I am not sure what could

  • @Opyight
    @Opyight6 жыл бұрын

    the plane will get too heavy on right side of the plane :D

  • @PotholesInMyLawn

    @PotholesInMyLawn

    4 жыл бұрын

    im sure the autopilot was like what the flip is happening here...

  • @minimalist1807
    @minimalist18072 жыл бұрын

    you can see how flat is our plane...super video

  • @fernandoaldekoa2436

    @fernandoaldekoa2436

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yes, a plane is flat, but a planet is not.

  • @minimalist1807

    @minimalist1807

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@fernandoaldekoa2436 lol wake up or buy new pair of eyes,dude

  • @fernandoaldekoa2436

    @fernandoaldekoa2436

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@minimalist1807 Go back to school, and this time pay attention.

  • @minimalist1807

    @minimalist1807

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@fernandoaldekoa2436 re educate its free

  • @heisen-bones

    @heisen-bones

    Жыл бұрын

    @@minimalist1807 imagine being this stupid

  • @pnwAero
    @pnwAero6 жыл бұрын

    *jealousy intensifies*

  • @a-lphaofzeldaformegaming7907
    @a-lphaofzeldaformegaming79076 жыл бұрын

    👍👎⚠Enable ratings for this video or the videos you make so that people can help you with the criticism

  • @didact777
    @didact7776 жыл бұрын

    show me the eclipse !!!! not people !!!

  • @junkfoodguy
    @junkfoodguy2 ай бұрын

    what tht flat earthers

  • @3rdw.

    @3rdw.

    Ай бұрын

    Its flat

  • @junkfoodguy

    @junkfoodguy

    Ай бұрын

    @@3rdw. you think circle is flat to

  • @andreitamaldonado
    @andreitamaldonado3 жыл бұрын

    More eclipse less people please!!

  • @amarrao95
    @amarrao956 жыл бұрын

    See the NASA images to see how the corona actually looks in person...

  • @sreckofijavz6369

    @sreckofijavz6369

    6 жыл бұрын

    Westsider95 nasaeclips

  • @sharonphillips581
    @sharonphillips5816 жыл бұрын

    too bad you showed more of the people than the eclipse.

  • @heberbelles7612
    @heberbelles76125 жыл бұрын

    Why didn't they zoom in on the eclipse after it became a total? ??? because you would see its not the moon that blocks out the sun but Orbs

  • @fernandoaldekoa2436

    @fernandoaldekoa2436

    2 жыл бұрын

    👎

  • @pinoyr1ce684
    @pinoyr1ce6846 жыл бұрын

    :D

  • @lr5867
    @lr58676 жыл бұрын

    @0:33 & @0:50

  • @andycyr9187
    @andycyr9187Ай бұрын

    Besides one of the GoPro cameras that they have the Earth is definitely flat from that height can you see that :-) just look at it LOL the Earth is flat wake up people!!!

  • @3rdw.

    @3rdw.

    Ай бұрын

    1000% FLAT LIKE GOD MADE IT. thats all i was looking for in the vid

  • @williamdemoraisoficial
    @williamdemoraisoficial Жыл бұрын

    FLATH EARTH IS TRUE...FLATH EARTH IS TRUE...FLATH EARTH IS TRUE...FLATH EARTH IS TRUE...FLATH EARTH IS TRUE...FLATH EARTH IS TRUE...

  • @GuardianSoulkeeper

    @GuardianSoulkeeper

    8 ай бұрын

    lol retards gonna retard

  • @paulthepainter2366
    @paulthepainter23666 жыл бұрын

    This is only good on mute

  • @PYTHAGORAS101
    @PYTHAGORAS1012 жыл бұрын

    It wasn't an eclipse ,it was a close electric sun powering down and powering up.

  • @donnalucas782
    @donnalucas7826 жыл бұрын

    Anyone see the 3 orbs around the sun?? Very clear this time

  • @ir8free

    @ir8free

    6 жыл бұрын

    double-pane window reflections and lens flare happen all the time

  • @beyondquestion

    @beyondquestion

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ir8free Naw, I thought the same watching the other vid, the one with dude saying "OH MY GOD" all the time. I just stumbled across this vid and it's clearly a different camera, different angle, same orbs, same position, same count, so now I'm questioning EVERYTHING I seen. What ARE those things? They indiviually lit up at the same time when the sun re-appeared too, that was pretty interesting as well...

  • @servtheking5245
    @servtheking52456 жыл бұрын

    Forget the eclipse the earth looks flat to me.

  • @charleysturbos7320

    @charleysturbos7320

    6 жыл бұрын

    Fish eyed lenses like on go pros do that. Convex, concave. Flatearthclues.com

  • @joespicoli6361
    @joespicoli63612 жыл бұрын

    The earth is totality flat asf

  • @kitcanyon658

    @kitcanyon658

    2 жыл бұрын

    Clearly not since eclipses would never happen with the lame FE model.

  • @jero7733
    @jero77336 жыл бұрын

    And yet the eclipse got more views than all your videos combined

  • @adamtraka5970
    @adamtraka59705 жыл бұрын

    Flath earth

  • @fernandoaldekoa2436

    @fernandoaldekoa2436

    2 жыл бұрын

    👎

  • @tied2dye1
    @tied2dye16 жыл бұрын

    crooks still charge you for snacks and bevs

  • @IGRPoseidon

    @IGRPoseidon

    6 жыл бұрын

    Roger Waters they don't charge for "bevs" lol

  • @hjsigcjj3
    @hjsigcjj34 жыл бұрын

    Flat earth

  • @fernandoaldekoa2436

    @fernandoaldekoa2436

    2 жыл бұрын

    👎

  • @superjew4914
    @superjew49146 жыл бұрын

    its so fucking flat holy shit

  • @charleysturbos7320

    @charleysturbos7320

    6 жыл бұрын

    Flatearthclues.com One video and you will not mock. Definition of ignorance is arguing something you know nothing about but refuse to learn. 200 reasons why the earth isn't spinning. Or anything eric dubay. We all started out believing it was a heliocentric spheroid as well. "Until we decided to think for ourselves"and learn.

  • @quizacgmail
    @quizacgmail6 жыл бұрын

    Nice