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7 Reasons Why Flying is Amazing

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7 Reasons Why Flying is Amazing
Cambria Jones

Think about it. Flying is pretty awesome! Scratch that. Flying is incredibly mind boggling!!

1. You wake up one day in one place and you get to go to sleep that same day thousands of miles away from where your day began.

2. A giant 70-ton metal box with wings carries you through the air smoothly and safely from point A to point B in a matter of hours.

3. This said giant metal box soars at speeds over 500 miles per hour. For perspective, in a car, that distance would take around 8 to 9 hours.

4. The average passenger jet soars around 39,000 feet above the surface of the earth. That's 7.4 vertical miles!

5. You fly with hundreds of incredibly unique and diverse individuals. Imagine what stories, connections, and friendships could be formed with all the members of just one average flight!

6. Your plane is not the only flight in the air. There are about 10,000 other planes in the air at the same time as you around the globe. And there are nearly 100,000 flights per day globally!

7. Everyone acts like all of this is completely normal. And that's because it is! People fly all the time and I'm thankful for the airplanes and pilots that have safely transported me from one place to another. Happy flying!

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