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12 Facts About Air Travel You Should Know by autojosh: 10:35am On Jul 17, 2017
Apart from the fact that traveling by air is way more expensive than traveling by land ,what else do you know ?

We would be looking at some interesting facts about air travel you probably never knew .

1.
Sydney (Australia) to Dallas (US) is the world longest flight by distance ,about 13,810 Km.

2.
Pilots and Co-pilots eat different meals to reduce the chances of both of them being poisoned at the same time.

3.
A commercial flight flies at an average speed of 800 Km/h

4.
A Boeing 747 is made up of about 6 million parts !

5.
One third of all the airports in the world are in the USA.

6.
The first aircraft landed in Nigeria on November 1, 1925.

It involved three De Havilland DH 9A aircraft belonging to the Royal Air Force, RAF.

7.
According to planecrashinfo.com there has been about 1104 accidents from the beginning of 1960 till the end of 2015 !.

No form accident is something to be happy about ,but this is quite encouraging considering the fact that road accidents in Nigeria every year is well over 11,ooo (2016).

8.
Murtala Muhammed Airport (MMA) was built during World War II. Chai !

9.
KLM is the world oldest airline ,it was established in 1919.

10.
Approximately 10 million people make use of Murtala Muhammed Airport every year.

11.
An average Boeing 747 has about 240-289 Kilometers of wiring.

12.
The Boeing 777 outputs well over 110,000 horsepower . Thats approximately the combined horsepower of about 80 Bugatti Chiron(2017 model)

Wheew !

That was quite enlightening

Hope you learnt something .

We would love to hear from you.

By Donald3d

https://autojosh.com/12-facts-air-travel-know/

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Re: 12 Facts About Air Travel You Should Know by Loyalblak007(f): 10:36am On Jul 17, 2017
Informative!


(Number 2 though) grin



Nice one O.P

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Re: 12 Facts About Air Travel You Should Know by okunfemm(m): 10:49am On Jul 17, 2017
educative n informative. op, kudos

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Re: 12 Facts About Air Travel You Should Know by ExpensiveG: 10:55am On Jul 17, 2017
Ok......


Op you try, wen we dey ready to enter Plane we go come back to dis topic... Thank you



***If you know say you never enter, no forget to remember dis topic if you don dey ready to entergrin

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Re: 12 Facts About Air Travel You Should Know by Nobody: 11:00am On Jul 17, 2017
Nice one.
Re: 12 Facts About Air Travel You Should Know by Nobody: 11:13am On Jul 17, 2017
And Airbus A380 remains the biggest passenger plane on earth cool

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Re: 12 Facts About Air Travel You Should Know by Goahead(m): 12:28pm On Jul 17, 2017
GodwinDuke:
And Airbus A380 remains the biggest passenger plane on earth cool
And the world's largest cargo/heaviest aircraft is Antonov An225

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Re: 12 Facts About Air Travel You Should Know by Donald3d(m): 1:23pm On Jul 18, 2017
smiley smiley shocked shocked cool
Lalasticlala
Re: 12 Facts About Air Travel You Should Know by mrbillz(m): 1:33pm On Jul 18, 2017
Highly informative

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Re: 12 Facts About Air Travel You Should Know by Teewhy2: 4:10pm On Jul 18, 2017
Op , you can lie how can you say the first aircraft that landed in Nigeria was in 1925 and that the oldest airline is KLM. where do you put Benin airways and Edo Airline they have been travelling for meetings since time immemorial . i believe their own average speed will be like 5000 km/Min Lol

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Re: 12 Facts About Air Travel You Should Know by ajalawole(m): 4:10pm On Jul 18, 2017
Goahead:
And the world's largest cargo/heaviest aircraft is Antonov An225
chai...................... Hope this plan will transport like 5million Nigerian to London at the same time to search for our missing president cheesy cheesy

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Re: 12 Facts About Air Travel You Should Know by morereb10: 4:10pm On Jul 18, 2017
ok
Re: 12 Facts About Air Travel You Should Know by tochuc: 4:10pm On Jul 18, 2017
Good
Re: 12 Facts About Air Travel You Should Know by NairalandCS(m): 4:10pm On Jul 18, 2017
See Number 5.

Nigeria was once great but today ? Today, I weep for my dear country.

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Re: 12 Facts About Air Travel You Should Know by iluvpomo(m): 4:12pm On Jul 18, 2017
Up Nigeria airways, soaring higher and higher to greater heights, making the nation proud cool

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Re: 12 Facts About Air Travel You Should Know by Nobody: 4:12pm On Jul 18, 2017
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Re: 12 Facts About Air Travel You Should Know by deepwater(f): 4:12pm On Jul 18, 2017
Nice, please tell us some about ocean travel
Re: 12 Facts About Air Travel You Should Know by soberdrunk(m): 4:12pm On Jul 18, 2017
Dear Sir, that your first fact is very wrong, the longest flight in the world is from Doha to Auckland with a total distance of 14,535km(9,032 miles) angry angry

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Re: 12 Facts About Air Travel You Should Know by ekensi01: 4:12pm On Jul 18, 2017
6,7,8 and 10 are no fact bro.

Nigeria no get fact.
Take note

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Re: 12 Facts About Air Travel You Should Know by jayriginal: 4:13pm On Jul 18, 2017
OP youve left car matter. Na plane you come face now? grin

planeJosh, the nairalander formerly known as autojosh
Re: 12 Facts About Air Travel You Should Know by Chuukwudi(m): 4:13pm On Jul 18, 2017
Cool
Re: 12 Facts About Air Travel You Should Know by MadCow1: 4:14pm On Jul 18, 2017
It's scary as Bleep
Re: 12 Facts About Air Travel You Should Know by sonnie10: 4:15pm On Jul 18, 2017
Cockpit! May roasted fall on them
Re: 12 Facts About Air Travel You Should Know by NairalandCS(m): 4:15pm On Jul 18, 2017
jayriginal:
OP youve left car matter. Na plane you come face now? grin

planeJosh, the nairalander formerly known as autojosh

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Re: 12 Facts About Air Travel You Should Know by tlops(m): 4:15pm On Jul 18, 2017
It one of the safest means of transportation.

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Re: 12 Facts About Air Travel You Should Know by TINALETC3(f): 4:15pm On Jul 18, 2017
;Dwat an informative informant
Re: 12 Facts About Air Travel You Should Know by tosyne2much(m): 4:16pm On Jul 18, 2017
Abeg what are the things to know about traveling by land? . E.g Lagos to Ekiti cheesy
Re: 12 Facts About Air Travel You Should Know by Holuwahphemy(m): 4:17pm On Jul 18, 2017
Informative cool
Re: 12 Facts About Air Travel You Should Know by iluvpomo(m): 4:17pm On Jul 18, 2017
GodwinDuke:
And Airbus A380 remains the biggest passenger plane on earth cool
Has anyone entered this one? Please share your experience
Re: 12 Facts About Air Travel You Should Know by seunny4lif(m): 4:18pm On Jul 18, 2017
Approximately 10 million people make use of Murtala Muhammed Airport every year.
Thats really low a country of 180M angry angry angry angry angry


What about Edo Airways
Midnight flight only

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