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RE: Maldives Trip - Day 1: The Epic Journey Begins!
I am happy to have you back and i totally get it for not missing steem for some time :) You need to have a rest from it too so that you can appreciate it's full awesomeness again anew.
The story captivates from the first lines, and you have great writing skills. Coupled with your photography makes very cool blog post to read.
That plane is a ... huge plane lol How do they even fly those and it is wonderful how they are able to land it. I think the plane that took you on that tiny island/landing pad was smaller? And do not you worry, with the sucess of steem you will be able to fly first class all the time in the future lol heading to the next part :)
haha! Thanks :) Yeah it was insane how big those planes are.. It was slightly worrying at take off as the wings bend and bounce quite a lot but they are very strong and robust.
The plane that landed us at the maldives was much smaller, a 777. The runway in the maldives is a standard runway size, but there are not taxi ways, so the plane has to taxi down the runway and turn around before it can take off, and of course that stops any other planes from queueing up or landing .. they don't have that many flights incoming so its not a big problem.
First class is the dream! ;)
You will see dream come true :) And bending wings? Do not care about it, They will never fall away as i was reading somewhere that with all the fuel they consist 80 or more percent of the total weight of the plain. ant that are not attached to a fuselage like we imagine, but are rather built both wings actually being one wing and fuselage sitting on top of it :)