Getting From A to B

GETTING FROM A TOB HAS NEVER BEEN SO SIMPLE... .in fact There are over US commercial air carriers 3.1 Million parts in a standard Boeing 747, and yet flying remains one of the safest ways to travel... spent a total of 21 million hours in the air last year THAT IS A LONG TIME TO SPEND IN THE AIR A far cry from Da Vinci's If you have to fly for that long then choose Singapore Airlines, they serve more Dom Perignon champagne than any other airline. vision of a flying machine! And British Airways every year serve... .. buf at any one time, more than 61,000 people are airborne on commercial flights over the USA alone. btonner 22 tonnes AO tonner CAVIAR SALMON CHICKEN This may sound like a lot of food... EVEN MORE THAN THAT ARE WAITING AT AIRPORTS LAIALAIALLAIA4 we le not unique in mastering flight) Those looking to rest between connecting flights can now use the UK's first airside bedrooms at Heathrow Terminal 3 The common house fly flies at 300x its body length per second A jet plane only travels at 100x its body length per second That wearo us out just thinking alou . How alout a nice cup of tea? The reason tea tastes so different on an aircraft is because water bolls at 90c. which inter- feres with the brewing process 90 The first cow milked in flight was Called Nellie It was 1930 and over 72 miles she produced 22 litres of milk... Jay Well, they didn't have good fridges in those days! Speaking of animals... ..In Alaska it is illegal to shoot a moose from the window of an THE DISTANCE WE FLY aero plane or any flying vehicle; quite right too! EVERY YEAA This one class of plane has ACROSS THE GLOBE IS PHENOMENAL travelled 35 BILLION miles since it launched That's 75,000 frips to the moon and back That means a lot of maintenance The windscreen of a Boeing 747 costs as much as a brand new BMW 1. Series Which incidentally could drive round the world 55 times on the fuel it takes to fly from Toronto to Tokyo! DO YOU THINK THAT THE WRIGHT BROTHERS DREAMT THAT ANY OF THAT WOULD BE TRUE WHEN THEY FIRST FLEW IN 1903? BACK THEN GETTING FROM A TO B WAS SIMPLE, BUT SLOW! No1 TRAVELLER