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Showing posts with label Flight. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Flight. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Did you see this?

Poor kitty takes unexpected flight.



I think the pilot actually handled the whole thing well. He told his passenger not to reach for the cat, and the cat was inside the wing, so it was somewhat protected, plus it had the good sense to stay in place. But it must have been very scared.

Thursday, September 18, 2008

I know my fear of flying is illogical

and stories such as this should alleviate it; but they don't.

Century after first fatality, safety is in the air: Beyond ‘experimental stage,’ flying is by far the safest way to travel

It contains some interesting history in the matter of Orville Wright's doomed 1908 flight that claimed the world's first aeroplane crash fatality, passenger Lt Thomas Selfridge, as well as some statistics on the comparative safety of flying.