Goin flying soon?
Here, check this out. Its a site that is all about how airliners are badly designed and that our government is, and has been, full of douche bags. Make sure you check out all the tabs and topics, very cool stuff. (not just the plane crashes, though those are cool too)
Update
Ah shit. I've never had a problem with flying (except for the air quality and morons on the plane) but after reading a bunch of these articles I'm thinking maybe I should be afraid of flying. Someone please chime in with a good counter-argument.
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Yeah but all those statistics about flying being safer than driving are still true. Its not like planes crash that often, its just that when they do you apparently die a fiery death due to poor construction.
Yes, but if you read Crash-worthy Planes: The Future of Flight
On page three they address that statistic:
If only the distances traveled by airplanes around airports were totaled, it could be proved that intercity buses and trains are safer than flying in commercial airplanes.
So planes are good at the safe part of flying, but only mediocre at the more dangerous runway portion, and terrible on the fire-ball-of-death aspect. Of course I imagine that planes are way safer than subway cars at traveling 500mph at 10,000 ft.
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