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/20150820/news/150829901) 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,_Iowa 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 URL to this flight as tracked on Flightaware: http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AAL73/history/20111209/1710Z/KORD/PHNL