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the human cheat code that turned an ocean into a layover
means The act, manner, or means of moving through the air — and, by extension, a scheduled trip by aircraft or any swift act of fleeing.
from From Old English 'flyht,' the action of flying, rooted in the Germanic verb that gives us 'fly.' Curiously, English folds two senses into one spelling: the soaring 'flight' (flying through air) and the fleeing 'flight' (running away, as in 'fight or flight'), both descended from the same family of words about rapid motion. The first booked a window seat; the second never stopped running.
- Wright brothers
- First flight lasted 12 seconds, shorter than a sneeze
- cruising altitude
- Jets fly where the air kills unprotected lungs
- speed gap
- Concorde crossed the Atlantic in under 3 hours
- safest mode
- You're likelier to die driving to the airport
- birds beat us
- Bar-tailed godwits fly 7,000 miles without landing
united airlines flight 175 — struck south tower on september 11, 2001 in new york city
malaysia airlines flight 370 — disappeared march 8, 2014 over indian ocean with 239 people aboard
british airways flight 9 — all four engines failed at 37,000 feet in 1982 but landed safely in jakarta