New York City

New York City marks the flight map's origin as Indiana Jones' private airliner departs for Venice, engines humming through clouds. Indy clutches the Grail Diary, his tense posture revealing the city's hold as his academic home—professor at Barnett College, estranged from father Henry. It embodies familiar streets and lectures left behind, a safe contrast to the Nazi-shadowed perils ahead, propelling him across the Atlantic into myth.