10 things you'd rather not know about flying
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1. A Jumbo Jet weighs more than an elephant.
2. There are 1800 thunderstorms on Earth at any given moment.
3. There are 8.5 million lightning strikes on Earth every single day,
(p.s. a bolt of lightning always hits the highest point.)
4. There's also a lot of mad Libyan terrorists about.
5. And don't forget those Iraqi's - they're still livid.
6. The distance between the wing-tips of a Boeing 747 is longer than
the first flight made by the Wright brothers, but shorter than the
Irish football team's passing game.
7. A plane can also cut wood. It can scythe down one square mile of
trees when it crashes into a forest.
8. All the world's airlines demand a copy of the Irish football team's
fixture list, so that their aeroplanes can avoid the stadiums where
Ireland are playing.
9. Chaos Theory, also known as Sod's Law, predicts that if you are
terrified of flying that you take a train or ship instead, a 747
will probably crash on your carriage or recreation deck.
10. The whole fleet of Air Europe managed to go down - in one single
night.
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1. A Jumbo Jet weighs more than an elephant.
2. There are 1800 thunderstorms on Earth at any given moment.
3. There are 8.5 million lightning strikes on Earth every single day,
(p.s. a bolt of lightning always hits the highest point.)
4. There's also a lot of mad Libyan terrorists about.
5. And don't forget those Iraqi's - they're still livid.
6. The distance between the wing-tips of a Boeing 747 is longer than
the first flight made by the Wright brothers, but shorter than the
Irish football team's passing game.
7. A plane can also cut wood. It can scythe down one square mile of
trees when it crashes into a forest.
8. All the world's airlines demand a copy of the Irish football team's
fixture list, so that their aeroplanes can avoid the stadiums where
Ireland are playing.
9. Chaos Theory, also known as Sod's Law, predicts that if you are
terrified of flying that you take a train or ship instead, a 747
will probably crash on your carriage or recreation deck.
10. The whole fleet of Air Europe managed to go down - in one single
night.
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