Milky Way galaxy beautiful, fanciful under the perspective of the cockpit

With the view from the cockpit window, the altitude above the clouds, under the starry sky and the stars, the Milky Way galaxy appears splendid, enchanting.

Please watch the timelapse video below recorded by a pilot on a flight from Europe to South America.

This video was made by Sales Wick, a 30-year-old Swiss pilot, who is also a photographer and film producer. On a separate website called BeyondClouds, he shared that:

"Flying through the night is a very normal thing for long-haul pilots, when the whole world is falling asleep. Late takeoffs often take us to faraway places. (as far away as he is) like Singapore, Hong Kong, Sao Paolo or J'burg (Johannesburg - South Africa's largest city) Depending on the direction of the flight, the crew and passengers will usually feel the night shorter if flying to the east or seeing a dark night if flying to the west.

Today's flight we crossed the Atlantic, heading to South America. The flight carries 340 passengers and we will all have a very long night flight. I am responsible for controlling the first leg of the flight. We headed to the west, the left Alps clearly visible. Just before we reached Geneva and Switzerland's western landmark, we turned to the left, into the Rhone valley and from here we headed to Marseile (France) and approached the Mediterranean Sea.

Following the predetermined route, we arrived in Algeria, flying along the northwestern part of the Sahara desert. We will fly over Dakar, Senegal and from here start the journey across the Atlantic. In the journey across the ocean, in front of us is just a vast blue sky and the destination will be the northeastern coast of Brazil. We approached the mainland north of Rio de Janeiro and just a few hundred miles more, we reached the final destination of Sao Paolo. We landed at 6 am local time, just before sunrise. "

According to Wick, this is a rare night because the sky that day has tons of bright stars.

The city lights we see in the video are when Wick's plane flies over Algiers, Algeria's capital, towards the Sahara desert. According to Wick, it was a very special night because there were few nights in August (last year) and the sky had so many bright stars. Starting from the constellation Perseus, the stars, big and small, guided him through the night.

And as soon as the city light was left behind, the Milky Way began to show clear, grand in the night sky without any disruption. Now Wick said, "Only we are flying at supersonic speeds along an invisible highway, towards the night ahead, and above the sky is extremely fantasy sky."

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