30 interesting facts about aviation industry.
While we stay at home, make use of the different learnings that you can engage and put yourself in to another allocation to get to know more either it can be reading, creating, learning or implementing. For the records, the source of this document from Navgeek Aviation.
1. Lufthansa is the world’s largest buyer of caviar purchasing over 10 tons each year.
2. While KLM is the world’s oldest airline established in 1919 the 2nd oldest airline Qantaz was created in 1920.
3. Each engine on a Boeing 747 weighs almost 10000 pounds. In other words, it’s almost 3 times as heavy as an elephant
4. Hi-Jack an aircraft was not officially illegal until 1961
5. An aircraft takes off or lands in every 47 seconds at Chicago o'hare international airport
6. If the Earth was the size of a desktop globe, a plane is a size of one 10th of an inch above the surface
7. There are be more astronauts have gone into space than there are being Concorde pilots
8. During 1987 American Airlines saved $40000 by removing one olive from every 1st class salad
9. JFK airport was originally called as Idle-wild airport
10. During a 3-hour flight, the human body on an average will shed about 1.5L of water so be sure to drink plenty of water during your flight
11. The Boeing 767 takes enough air in its engines to fill a good year blimp in 7 seconds.
12. The Boeing 747 is longer than the 1st flight of the Wright brothers
13. About 50% of pilots from the UK Norway and Sweden have admitted to falling asleep while flying a passenger plane
14. Singapore airlines spend 700 million dollars each year on food as well as 16 million dollars on wine
15. In the USA over 2 million people board 40000 flights each day
16. The average 747 has over 240 km of wiring considering a triathlon covers over 3.9 kilometers that's enough wiring to cover triathlon 60 times.
17. British Airways used to be the largest purchase of champagne but now it's emirates.
18. At any hour there are over 61000 people airborne over the USA.
19. You have a 96 percent chance of surviving a plane crash.
20. Air travel is the second safest mode of transport, the elevator is safer, but it will take ages to cross Atlantic.
21. The A380 wingspan is longer than the aircraft fuselage itself.
22. 75 percent of onboard arguments due to reclining seats in economy class cabin.
23. Qantas’s Project sunrise is the longest flight ever In the history from JFK to SYD in 19 and half hours.
24. Airbus in working on a transparent plane, which allowed passengers to have a 360-degree view as they fly.
25. The wing tip of the A330-200 is the same height as the world’s tallest man.
26. 80% of plane crashes happened after 3 minutes from takeoff or the final 8 minutes before landing.
27. One wind shield of a 747-400 cost as same as a BMW.
28. If everyone on a plane jumped at the same time, will the plane get lighter???
well due to the basic law of physics every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Even though the plane is empty when it is falling it will increase its weight momentarily.
29. Ryan Air carries more international passengers in a year than any other airline.
30. Finally, the worldwide 747 fleet has logged over 78billion kilometers equivalent to the distance of the moon and back over 100,000 times and its flown around 5.6 billion people equivalent to the 80% of world’s population.
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