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1600px | An early model of the world's most popular airplane. 1962 built Cessna 172C, one of two dozen diversions to this usually sleepy airport due to thunderstorms shortly after the Solar Eclipse. An ominous roll cloud approaches ahead of a storm cell.

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N1647Y - Cessna 172C Skyhawk - Private

1600px | An early model of the world's most popular airplane

Hongming Zheng N1647Y
1,500 1 0 Cessna 172C Skyhawk
N54100 - Piper PA-32-260 Cherokee Six - Private

Many of us Eclipse Chasers were caught by thunderstorms on the way back north and forced to land at this small airfield in Southern Illinois, here is the end of that long line of showers marked by a rainbow

Hongming Zheng N54100
1,460 1 0 Piper PA-32-260 Cherokee Six
N1303U - Cessna 172M Skyhawk - Private

Over two dozen Eclipse Chasing aircraft (including mine) diverted to this tiny airport on the way home

Hongming Zheng N1303U
2,416 1 0 Cessna 172M Skyhawk

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N512DE - Airbus A321-271NX - Delta Air Lines

(1580px) The land left of the wing (behind our flight path) in complete darkness as the shadow of the Moon comes across during the solar eclipse

Hongming Zheng N512DE
2,250 34 1 Airbus A321-271NX
N317AS - Boeing 737-990 - Alaska Airlines

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Hongming Zheng N317AS
2,235 70 3 Boeing 737-990
N824UA - Airbus A319-131 - United Airlines

On the ramp during a light snowstorm, with melted snow on the ground providing good reflection photo opportunity

Hongming Zheng N824UA
1,221 25 0 Airbus A319-131

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N1647Y

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Aug 21, 2017

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1600px | An early model of the world's most popular airplane. 1962 built Cessna 172C, one of two dozen diversions to this usually sleepy airport due to thunderstorms shortly after the Solar Eclipse. An ominous roll cloud approaches ahead of a storm cell.

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N1647Y - Cessna 172C Skyhawk - Private

1600px | An early model of the world's most popular airplane

Hongming Zheng N1647Y
1,500 1 0 Cessna 172C Skyhawk
N54100 - Piper PA-32-260 Cherokee Six - Private

Many of us Eclipse Chasers were caught by thunderstorms on the way back north and forced to land at this small airfield in Southern Illinois, here is the end of that long line of showers marked by a rainbow

Hongming Zheng N54100
1,460 1 0 Piper PA-32-260 Cherokee Six
N1303U - Cessna 172M Skyhawk - Private

Over two dozen Eclipse Chasing aircraft (including mine) diverted to this tiny airport on the way home

Hongming Zheng N1303U
2,416 1 0 Cessna 172M Skyhawk
N512DE - Airbus A321-271NX - Delta Air Lines

(1580px) The land left of the wing (behind our flight path) in complete darkness as the shadow of the Moon comes across during the solar eclipse

Hongming Zheng N512DE
2,250 34 1 Airbus A321-271NX
N317AS - Boeing 737-990 - Alaska Airlines

2

Hongming Zheng N317AS
2,235 70 3 Boeing 737-990
N824UA - Airbus A319-131 - United Airlines

On the ramp during a light snowstorm, with melted snow on the ground providing good reflection photo opportunity

Hongming Zheng N824UA
1,221 25 0 Airbus A319-131
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