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A flight in the Citation X+ gave one pilot the chance to see the world as few ever have.
There are few sights from the air that most pilots—indeed, most people, at least those in developed countries—haven’t seen. If you’ve flown in an airliner on a long trip, you’ve been lucky enough to witness things that those who never flew, pretty much everyone in the history of world who died before the mid-1950s, never saw, like the expanse of ocean stretching out below us, nothing but blue behind and before us, limitless, or the rise of great mountain chains, Rockies, Alps or Urals, flattening with altitude as we traverse them from above.
But there’s one sight that very few have had the chance to see firsthand: the curvature of the earth.
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