And other than becoming able to fly those heights YOURSELF, I would not know how to take a photo up there which would NOT be taken through glass... :scratch:
I assume your plane looked different from the one you saw?
Don't get me wrong, its an interesting photo. Maybe you could do some really careful work with the cloning tool to get rid of the (suprisingly little) streaks that show through?
LaFoto, I am in the same type, just under 1nm away (VR lens helps here)
Ls3D, that's a nice look, but tbh with this one I think the rays look more like glass reflections than some of the others I have so there is only so much ps can do.
Here is another shot from the same day and I think the rays look much better (unfortunately the clouds just don't do it for me)