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Fear of Flying
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"Flying is inherently dangerous.
We like to gloss that over with clever rhetoric and comforting statistics,
but these facts remain: gravity is constant and powerful, and speed kills.
In combination, they are particularly destructive."
- Dan Manningham,
'Business and Commercial Aviation' magazine.
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| AfghanHound Air 737: At night |
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So, erm, yes. Your editor would indeed like you to know that
a certain uneasiness about flying exists around Afghan Towers. A fear, almost.
Now, those of you who've arrived here from some weird
altavista or
google search will know that there are
many, many pages about the
fear of flying out there. Most will tell you
you're being silly, there's nothing
to worry
about, it's the safest way
to travel
and that odd noise is just the number
2 hydraulic pump
cycling or some such. (As if a pump is going to cycle anywhere: They
always drive.) Not this one, oh no. This set of seriously wibbly pages
takes the entirely different approach of justifying and (in a Californian
way) affirming each and every nervous feeling, panic attack and moment
of mortal terror. If you were looking for the other type, it's probably
best for you to go back from whence you came. About now.
Right, since you're still here,
you might want to go to the first real page, about the Genesis of these pages. Alternatively, you might
want to peruse the following table of contents type list of the
Afghan fear-of-flying pages:
- The Index. What you are looking at now.
- Genesis, or preamble type of thing.
- AfghanHound Airways, the web's
safest airline.
- 737, a plane made by Boeing.
- Weird Thing.
- The real weird thing that happened on
a 737.
- Jet Engines, a wibble.
- A new dawn: the key to the glory of Jet
Engines.
- General Electric, a company.
- Still looking, and almost there.
- 737-300 engine part I, a guide.
- 737-300 engine part II, a
continued guide.
- 737-300 engine part III, the continuing
continued guide.
- What to do, possibly?
- The Last Page, just about.
The Last
Page
Fear
of Flying Index
Genesis