20 Random Facts About Traveling In Airplanes
This post is part of Geek Takeover Week 2018. Over the years, I’ve covered a lot of about air travel here, from surviving plane crashes to letting you know how terrible United’s business class is. But this is Geek Takeover Week so I wanted to take some of the more interesting and obscure facts sprinkled throughout thousands of posts, boil them down, and offer a highly concentrated dose you can shoot right into your neurons. These are 20 random facts you might not have know about traveling by plane. 1. Fear of flying is called aerophobia. 2. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in the United States limits commercial airline pilots to 1,000 hours of flight time per year. 3. 76% of people involved in plane crashes survive. 4. This is what those marshaling signals mean: 5. There are secret seats on planes you can reserve. 6. The average passenger plane angles up 12.5 degrees during takeoff. 7. Commercial flights often begin their descent 90 minutes prior to reaching their destination. 8. During an average 8 hour flight, time dilation causes you to be .0000003 seconds in the future compared to people on the ground. 9. 80% of plane crashes occur during the first 3 minutes and last 8 minutes of a flight. 10. The Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner’s engines are powerful enough to allow it to fly straight up. 11....
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