Your flight time includes waiting on the taxiway

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When you buy a three-hour flight, you are not actually flying for three hours. The official airline clock starts the moment the parking brakes are released at the gate. If you spend forty-five minutes sitting in a line on the taxiway, congratulations, that counts as your precious flight time.

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Tony Jannus piloted the world's very first scheduled commercial airline flight in 1914, transporting a single paying passenger across Tampa Bay in a trip that lasted a mere twenty-three minutes.

Zeppelins were filled with highly flammable hydrogen gas not because it was the safest option, but because the United States legally refused to sell non-flammable helium to Germany.

Modern commercial aviation autopilot systems are so incredibly advanced that they actually control the aircraft for roughly ninety percent of the entire flight.

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Etymologically, the word helicopter does not come from combining the fragments 'heli' and 'copter', but rather from the Greek words 'helico' meaning spiral, and 'pter' meaning wing.

The rocket-fuel ingredients in the Hindenburg's skin

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