| On a mostly clear enroute day in winter, a Chicago-to-Boston flight climbs above Chicago's northern suburbs before crossing Lake Michigan to fly east along Michigan's I-94 corridor. Cloud deck below clears just west of Detroit, affording view of the expanse of metropolitan Detroit, followed by Lake St. Clair separating the State of Michigan from the Province of Ontario. After glimpses at a few southwestern Ontario agricultural towns, the flight path hugs the Ontario shore of eastern Lake Erie, providing view of Great Lakes steamer-era ports and small current-era summer resort towns. Flight re-enters the US over Buffalo NY, and permits viewing of a couple of Upstate New York's Finger lakes before cloud deck returns until western Massachusetts. The opening reveals water power-dependent mill towns, along one New England river, established during America's early industrialization era. Salem MA comes into view as the flight approaches the Atlantic coast to circle around to land west at Boston Logan Airport. 1:30 Takeoff on ORD runway 32L 3:30 Chicago Executive Airport 3:50 Interstate-294 4:25 Interstate-94 5:00 Begin Lake Michigan at Evanston IL 13:00 Benton Harbor MI 15:40 Junction of Interstates 96, 296, 275 & state highway 5 at Farmington Hills MI; Detroit metropolitan area begins 16:10 Brighton MI 17:15 Interstate 75 through Troy MI 18:30 Interstate 94 through Clintondale MI along shore of Lake St. Clair 19:15 Lake St. Clair 19:35 Leaving US airspace; entering Canadian ... |
