- On take-off the engines of a 747 are capable of displacing enough air to fill a Goodyear Blimp in seven seconds
- The glass in the air traffic control tower windows is angled precisely at 15°, which prevents glare and reflections from blocking a controller’s view of the runways
- Every day there are approximately 200,000 flights occurring in the world, but only 5% of the world’s population has traveled by airplane
- Airliners’ lifespans aren’t determined by years, but by the number of pressurization the plane undergoes
- Air travel is the second safest form of travel, after the elevator/escalator
- Commercial airline pilots can only see about half the wing from the flight deck
- Airline doors and windows are often inset a few millimetres from the fuselage so that they will expand to be flush with the fuselage during flight
