Everything You've Ever Wondered about Flying on Airlines
Whether we love it or hate it, millions of us fly every day ? but very few of us really understand how it works. Who hasn?t looked out of a plane window and thought, ?how are we actually staying up here?? The Flying Book will surprise, reassure and entertain anyone who?s ever taken to the skies, and reveals (among other things):
How a plane gets airborne (It?s not what you were taught at school)
That there?s no such thing as an air pocket
Why the captain and co-pilot always eat different meals during a flight
Whether all the stories about DVT are true
Why pilots aren?t allowed to have beards
That flying really is the safest form of transport ever (apart from the lift)
And, why it is a very bad idea to flush the plane toilet while you?re sitting on it
Reviews
If you're moderately uncomfortable about flying, The Flying Book is likely to be of some reassurance. If you won't step inside the terminals at Heathrow for love nor money, then you need more help than David Blatner can offer. For the rest of us, The Flying Book is funny, contains more information about flying than you'll ever need, and it's a gold mine for one-liner airline stats The Observer Hundreds of facts (are) packed into David Blatner's useful little tome Erica Wagner, The Times