Flying again

in #blog7 years ago

Today I find myself on yet another trip to Amsterdam; a trip I've been taking every other week for the past couple of months and will continue to do so until Christmas (only 1 left...YAY). I was a frequent flyer in my previous job also.

I still can't quite get my head around the whole flying thing. That is a bunch of people arrive at a big building, lob themselves and their luggage on a big tube with wings and are then transported across hundreds or thousands of miles through the air to land on a specific strip of land.

To put this into perspective the land surface area of the earth is 57 268 900 square miles. That's quite a lot of land. Large commercial runways can be in the region of 5500m in length and 80 m wide - probably not even a hairs width in comparison.

I appreciate that we have gps and all that fancy stuff but still...it's a pretty amazing thing.

Don't get me started on sending stuff into space!

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