This is my bird. Refuelling and waiting to be checked by men in clipboards. It's one thing to see a plane soaring over your head looking confident and powerful. It's another to see it at rest and noticing the subtlest signs of wear. Are those engines all that it takes to lift me and my luggage and the hundreds of others on the opposite side? In 15 hours we flew from New York to Asia. Our ancestors - all of them - travelled like snails until about a hundred years ago. And even then only a small percentage flew. In Christopher Nolan's fantastic film Oppenheimer he becomes haunted by the fact that human beings have transformed themselves into Gods. It's almost a century later and it's so easy to take for granted these powers created by men and women of science that once only existed as myth.
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