wrote:

In the real world there are many photographs of huge canyons carved in
layers of cloud and smoke as airplanes fly over them,

Cool! Got any links to some? How about pictures of airplanes
flying just below the ceiling?


The most famous photo is one that you can see on this site he
http://adamone.rchomepage.com/index4.htm
He has the caption wrong, though. The Citation never flew through the
cloud, only over it.

Pictures of airplanes flying just below the ceiling are an interesting
idea, but I have not seen any. Usually the ceiling is fairly ill
defined and ragged anyway.