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a 400-ton metal tube convincing physics to take a coffee break at 35,000 feet
means A powered flying vehicle with fixed wings — though the word also covers a flat surface, a carpenter's smoothing tool, and a type of tree, all sharing the same root idea of flatness.
from From Latin 'planus,' meaning flat or level — the same root behind 'plain' and 'plan.' The flying sense is a short clip of 'aeroplane' (from Greek 'aēr,' air, plus that flat 'planus'), coined in the late 19th century for the flat wing-surfaces that catch the air. So a jumbo jet is, at heart, just a very fast flat thing.
- safest travel
- Far safer per mile than your car
- thin air
- Cabin pressure mimics an 8,000-foot mountain
- lightning proof
- Struck roughly once per year, shrugs it off
- dim landings
- Cabin lights dim so eyes adjust before crashes
- fuel dump
- Some jets jettison fuel to land safely heavy
boeing 747 — wide-body jet aircraft first flown in 1969, carried over 1.5 billion passengers
concorde — supersonic passenger jet that flew from 1969-2003, reached mach 2.04
airbus a380 — largest passenger airliner, first flight 2007, seats up to 853 people