Chicago-to-Boston flight: view of Lake Michigan, Lake St. Clair, Lake Erie, Salem MA 2012-01-07

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On a mostly clear enroute day in winter, a Chicago-to-Boston flight climbs above Chicago's northern suburbs before crossing Lake Michigan to fly east along Michigan's I-94 corridor. Cloud deck below clears just west of Detroit, affording view of the expanse of metropolitan Detroit, followed by Lake St. Clair separating the State of Michigan from the Province of Ontario. After glimpses at a few southwestern Ontario agricultural towns, the flight path hugs the Ontario shore of eastern Lake Erie, providing view of Great Lakes steamer-era ports and small current-era summer resort towns. Flight re-enters the U.S. over Buffalo NY, and permits viewing of a couple of Upstate New York's Finger lakes before cloud deck returns until western Massachusetts. The opening reveals water power-dependent mill towns, along one New England river, established during America's early industrialization era. Salem MA comes into view as the flight approaches the Atlantic coast to circle around to land west at Boston Logan Airport. 1:30 Takeoff on ORD runway 32L 3:30 Chicago Executive Airport 3:50 Interstate-294 4:25 Interstate-94 5:00 Begin Lake Michigan at Evanston IL 13:00 Benton Harbor MI 15:40 Junction of Interstates 96, 296, 275 & state highway 5 at Farmington Hills MI; Detroit metropolitan area begins 16:10 Brighton MI 17:15 Interstate 75 through Troy MI 18:30 Interstate 94 through Clintondale MI along shore of Lake St. Clair 19:15 Lake St. Clair 19:35 Leaving U.S. airspace; entering Canadian airspace 19:50-20:25 Harsens Island MI 20:25-20:30 Algonac MI (left) 20:37 Port Lambton ON (right) 20:45 Marine City MI 21:15 Port Huron MI (left); Sarnia ON (right); Lake Huron (above) 22:30 Dresden ON 23:40-24:10 Bothwell ON 25:10-25:20 West Lorne ON 26:10 Wallacetown ON 26:35 East along Lake Erie shore of Ontario 27:20-27:40 Port Stanley ON 29:35 Port Burwell ON 31:55 Port Rowan ON 33:00 Port Dover ON 34:30 Lake Erie; Lake Ontario (above) 35:00 Port Maitland ON 36:05 Port Colborne ON 37:10 Point Abino ON 37:35 Niagara Falls ON (left); Niagara Falls NY (right) 37:50 Leaving Canadian airspace; entering U.S. airspace 38:11-38:30 Buffalo NY 39:15 Silver Lake west of Perry NY 41:20 Hemlock Lake (near) & Canadice Lake NY (above) 42:20-42:30 Canandaigua Lake NY 45:50 Connecticut River through Northfield MA 46:30 Millers River begins 46:57 Orange MA 47:21 Athol MA 48:15 Winchendon MA 48:24 Baldwinville MA (left) 48:52 Gardner MA 49:55 Fitchburg MA 50:49 Lake Shirley MA 51:25 Ayer MA 52:00 Interstate 495 at Littleton MA 52:30 Nagog Pond at Nagog Woods MA 53:05-53:30 Lowell MA 55:15 Salem MA 1:01:45 Touchdown on BOS runway 27 Link to flight-tracking page of this flight: http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AAL1718/history/20120107/1510Z/KORD/KBOS