flying
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The Most Frequent Fliers Are Killing the Climate
Just 1% of the global population was responsible for half of the world’s commercial flight emissions in 2018, a new study found. Those elite “frequent fliers” travelled about 56,000 kilometres that year.
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It Took an Aerospace Engineer to Make This Tiny Baby Yoda Toy Fly
As amazingly detailed as action figures have become over the years, there’s still some features toymakers like Hasbro leave out, such as making Baby Yoda’s pod actually fly. It’s so tiny you’d need an aerospace engineer to pull that off, so it’s a good thing that aerospace engineer Adam Woodworth is as big a fan…
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This Is What It’s Like To Fly During The Pandemic
A week ago, I wasn’t writing because I had to fly back to America after being stuck abroad for months because of the covid-19 pandemic. The experience was. at once tremendously surreal but also surprisingly, even concerningly, normal. At least upon arrival at JFK, that is.
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Why Am I Suddenly Afraid Of Flying?
For years you’ve flown without issue—no breathing exercises, no pills—but suddenly you can’t board without picturing catastrophe. No one you know has recently died in a crash; you have not, to your knowledge, dwelled excessively on those Boeing catastrophes; and yet suddenly, out of nowhere, you’ve become the kind of person who’s afraid to fly.