Pizzey's Perch

When Mark Twain said “There is no such thing as a small mir­a­cle in avi­a­tion”, he was refer­ring to the nat­ur­al kind. Mod­ern com­mer­cial flight, how­ev­er, is packed with small mir­a­cles; humans trust­ing the reli­a­bil­i­ty of air­lin­ers the same way we do the watch on our wrist, despite no real idea of how either one works and bits falling off Boeings.… Read the rest