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The distance between you and the ground deciding whether it loves you back.
means The full distance from the tip of one wing to the tip of the other, measured across an outstretched body — whether bird, plane, or person's reaching arms.
from A plain compound of "wing" + "span." "Wing" arrived in Middle English from Old Norse "vængr," the feathered limb. "Span" is far older and very human: an Old English measure ("spann") reckoned by the spread of a hand, the distance from thumb-tip to little-finger-tip. So a "wingspan" is literally a wing measured the way we once measured everything — by reaching out and seeing how far we go.
- biggest ever
- Quetzalcoatlus stretched 36 feet, taller than a giraffe
- record bird
- Wandering albatross hits nearly 12 feet across
- airliner scale
- A 747's span exceeds the Wright brothers' first flight
- human math
- Your arm span roughly equals your height
- basketball edge
- Scouts prize long wingspans more than raw height
wandering albatross — largest wingspan of any living bird at 11.5 meters (37.5 feet)
boeing 747 — commercial aircraft with 68.4 meter wingspan, iconic jumbo jet since 1969
antonov an-225 — largest aircraft ever built with 88.4 meter wingspan, ukraine