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10 incredible facts they don’t want you to know about aviation

17 thoughts on “10 incredible facts they don’t want you to know about aviation

  1. Air travel is more popular than ever. Passengers must arrive at the airport two hours before departure to ensure they have time to spray perfume on their arms, and marvel at how ugly modern watches are.

    Shows what I know–I thought it was so you could eat mediocre food and have overpriced drinks.

    1. One of my many, many pet peeves: the way they're redesigning all the international airports to put you on a forced march through miles of Dufry shopping before getting to your gate.

  2. In 1986 Russian hunters discovered these preserved remains on Russia’s Arctic coast.

    Actually, there have been persistent reports over the years that Siberian hunters would find these perfectly preserved frozen specimens, field dress them and bring them home, helping to sustain their families through the long Boreal night. The collection of ailerons Leonid Kulik found on his 1921 Tunguska expedition was found in numerous villages.

    1. Official story: Kennedy manfully stood up to Kruschev and bullied him into taking those missiles out of Cuba
      True story: Kennedy also agreed to remove our missiles from Iran.

  3. The fact that there's no airport nearby, and that I have nowhere to go, aren't the only reasons I don't fly these days.

  4. Bombers are large multi-engined aeroplanes that carry high explosive or nuclear weapons to drop on cities. Cities are the natural habitat of many humans, so an unfortunate byproduct of this hands-on town-planning is the killing of people. Fortunately, the only nations with bombers are very powerful.

    Or, sanitized aerial terrorism.

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