[Jay Seneca]

How come if your looking at a total eclipse from a airplane you can see sun light on the horizon. Dark on top and on bottom with light in the middle.

https://www.google.com/search?q=eclipse+from+a+plane&prmd=inv&sxsrf=ALeKk0045cc2NmmorsvqcpNHpA3ZCPinKw:1585266077680&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwii17yrqLnoAhVR5awKHYnHBXYQ_AUoAXoECA4QAQ&biw=375&bih=634

[Tumeni]

What do you see as the problem?

You have the photo, taken from a viewpoint of someone WITHIN the shadow. What do you see as an issue with looking out from within the shadow, to see sunlight area(s) around it?

Imagine it this way; go outside in the sun, at high noon, with a large golf umbrella. Hold it above you, such that you are in the shade, and the umbrella is between you and the sun.

Can you look out from under the umbrella and see sunlit areas around you?

[GreatATuin]

Indeed, I can't see a problem.

Most of these photos seems to be of the March 2015 eclipse. Many eclipse enthusiats boarded chartered flights or even private jets to see and photograph the eclipse.

They did so because they knew exactly when and where the eclipse would happen. Such predictions are all, without any exception, based on a round earth model. The first accurate prediction was made by Halley (yes, the comet guy) in 1715, thanks to Newton's findings.