Did you know......?

• In the 1920's, you could buy a plane ticket for $5.
• At the Chicago airport, an airplane is landing every 37 seconds.
• The box that records conditions and other things having to do with the plane, known as a "black box", is actually orange.
• A 747-400 is made with 6 million parts that have been made in 33 different countries.
• The layers of skin between the inside of a plane, and outside is only 7.5 inches thick.
• The first coast to coast flight for America was in 1911 and took a total of 49 days to complete.
• The miles traveled by the Boeing 747 is equal to at least 75,000 round trips to the moon.
• The KC-135 contains 500,000 rivets costing 14 cents to $1.50 each.
• The AN-225 can carry 1.3 million pounds while taking off.
• American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each first-class passenger's salad.
• On average, 61,000 people are airborne in the U.S. every hour.