From One Extreme To Another

Southwest Airlines flight 1996 passes over Old Battles Place in Fairhope the afternoon of DEC 30th 2025 while on a flight from Cancun to St. Louis. Captured 40,000 feet or 7.5 miles high, the Boeing 737 moves at a ground speed of 421 knots or 484 mph during the two hour forty minute flight. Cancun’s temperature as passengers departed was in the upper 70s, while St. Louis will drop to 28° tonight with a wind chill around 20°. Photo shot from Fairhope, roughly eight miles from the aircraft…