Airplane Flight
I’m a travel agent, but I still don’t understand what makes an airplane fly? Can you tell me?
———- from Barbara S. of Portales, NM
Of course. Airlines go out of their way to make flying a pleasant experience – free magazines, peanuts, coffee, music on the headphones and nutritious food. They give you these things because the true soruce of aerodynamic lift is faith. When the flight attendants (or air goddesses) chant their mantra about seatbelts and emergency exits, nobody really listens. But the message sinks in subliminally. We do keep our seatbelts fastened, even after the head aviator (or is it avatar?) turns off the seatbelt sign. And it’s the reassuring smile of a stewardess that keeps the plane in the air, not the wings. Obviously if they didn’t gitve us those dinkly little pillows or show feel-good Hollywood movies, well, we’d get depressed and the whole shebang would drop like a rock.
Of course. Airlines go out of their way to make flying a pleasant experience – free magazines, peanuts, coffee, music on the headphones and nutritious food. They give you these things because the true soruce of aerodynamic lift is faith. When the flight attendants (or air goddesses) chant their mantra about seatbelts and emergency exits, nobody really listens. But the message sinks in subliminally. We do keep our seatbelts fastened, even after the head aviator (or is it avatar?) turns off the seatbelt sign. And it’s the reassuring smile of a stewardess that keeps the plane in the air, not the wings. Obviously if they didn’t gitve us those dinkly little pillows or show feel-good Hollywood movies, well, we’d get depressed and the whole shebang would drop like a rock. 