Helicopter Over Philadelphia
July 27, 2012 |
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Penn's Landing Heliport, our departure point, on the lower left West Moyamensing Ave cuts through South Philly Lincoln Financial Field Two Liberty Place, One Liberty Place, the Comcast Center, and the Bell Atlantic Tower - the skyline from the northeast Indepdence Hall and Independence Mall in the foreground, and the skyline from the east Bridge crossings over the Schuylkill River, which separates Center City on the east (left) from University City in West Philadelphia. The Cira Centre stands above 30th Street Station and dominates the University City skyline. Aramark Tower, Loews Philadelphia Hotel, and Market East neighborhood (foreground) from the northeast Ben Franklin Parkway (foreground), Logan Square, Vine Street Expressway, and Delaware River Skyline from the southwest with the Delaware River and Ben Franklin Bridge in the background Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Fairmount Waterworks Downtown Camden, NJ from the west, including Camden City Hall Schuylkill River, East Park Reservoir, and Strawberry Mansion Bridge Interstate 95, CSX Transportation South Philadelphia Yard, and the Walt Whitman Bridge Two Liberty Place, One Liberty Place, and the Mellon Bank Center from the east Northern Liberties, Fishtown, Interstate 95, and the Delaware River Skyline from the east Lincoln Financial Field Rockstar Mayhem Festival at the Susquehanna Bank Center in Camden Skyline from the southwest Washington Square, Society Hill, and Queen Village neighborhoods, among others, and the Delaware River The mirrored COmcast Center and the skyline from the north Fairmount Park, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Boathouse Row, the Schuylkill River, and the skyline from the northwest The St. James, and the skyline from the east-southeast From the south Skyline from the south Susquehanna Bank Center Philadelphia Museum of Art and skyline from the northwest Sunoco Refinery and Platt Bridge Skyline from the southwest Route 1 crossing the Schuylkill River Loews Philadelphia Hotel Rowhomes of South Philadelphia Lincoln Financial Field Logan Square and the skyline from the north City Hall from the north South Philadelphia including the Pennsport neighborhood Eastern State Penitentiary USS New Jersey, Camden's Delaware River waterfront, and the Ben Franklin Bridge Skyline from the west Skyline from the south Rail tracks northwest of 30th Street Station Just before landing: Delaware River, the Dockside, and the skyline from the east Camden City Hall (371 ft), the tallest building in the Philadelphia suburbs Crown of the Comcast Center Skyline from the east Delaware River and the Ben Franklin Bridge in front of Waterfront Square Skyline from the northwest Above midtown A plane descends over the Delaware River Philadelphia Museum of Art, Boat House Row, and the Fairmount Waterworks Skyline from the west Watching us land Within the skyline, looking west Lincoln Financial Field, Citizens Bank Park, and the skyline from the south Two other helicopters over Camden, and the Ben Franklin Bridge Perfect angle of the skyline, from the southwest |