Why do some planes have giant parachutes while your commercial flight has none?
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A fully loaded Boeing 777 weighs nearly 800,000 pounds — so how does it actually take off?
A fully loaded Boeing 777 weighs nearly 800,000 pounds.
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Do pilots sleep in their seats during long flights?
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A single wing of a Boeing 747 is longer than the entire first powered flight in history.
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