Planes passing each other - GIF

[JoeVanGeaux]

Back in the day before cell phone cameras and such, I experienced an incident just like this but a good deal closer when flying eastbound over the Phoenix area. If I wasn't so surprised by the other planes appearance I would have been able to read the tail number.

Another incident a few years later... and even much, much closer ... when flying in the Washington DC area, a B1 bomber crossed under us (T-bone style). If I had been seated on the approaching side it was I-could-probably-have-seen-the-pilot-waving close!

I do not miss those business-travel days AT ALL!