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A hundred tons of metal convinces physics to take the day off.
means A large passenger aircraft powered by jet engines, built for fast, high-altitude commercial flight.
from A straightforward 20th-century compound: 'jet,' from the jet engines that replaced propellers after World War II, plus 'liner,' borrowed from 'ocean liner' — the great passenger ships that once defined long-distance travel. When commercial aviation took over that role, it inherited the vocabulary along with the glamour.
- cruise altitude
- roughly 35,000 feet, above most weather
- fuel burn
- a jumbo drinks about 1 gallon per second
- cabin pressure
- simulates being 8,000 feet up, not sea level
- first jetliner
- de Havilland Comet, 1952, then it crashed a lot