holiday nightmares

Ruz

should have been in greece right now, but due to various shit and visa problems I am not going till tonight. so only 5 days on holiday instaed of 7. I hate flying as well.where's the f**ing vodka

KDR_11k

You're thinking of Russia there, in Greece they have Ouzo.

Ruz

no i meant i shall be drinking some vodka to calm my preflight nerves.My brain thinks 'flying why does this work?' 2 ton metal box in the sky ,nooooh.
Yeah we had phoned the greek consulate twice and they were adamant that my missus had to have a visa. turned out to be a load of horse droppings. I am very angry about it
should have flown there on saturday morning, but have to go at midnight tonight instead.
ahhh well least we will have a bit of for 5 days

Toomas

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Try 413 tons, because thats how much 747 weighs fully loaded

Ruz

ahh well that makes it even more unlikely

JonMurphy

Flying is fun. It will be fine. But yes, I know the pain of visas and making sure everything is sorted.

Enjoy your time when you get there

Daz

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'cept it's unlikely that a 747 will be taking you from the UK to Greece though ;-) Something much smaller probably.

Have a good one Ruz. I used to have a pretty serious flying phobia too, but I just sort of forced myself to get on and deal with it. The more you do of it, the less it becomes an issue.

Tulkamir

Less chance of dieing in a plane than in a car, so nothing to worry about.

Sucks about the complications though, not the best foot to start out a vacation on. Oh well, make up for the time lost in the time you got.

TomDunne

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernoulli%27s_principle

MoP

My brain crashed with all the

Daz

Yeah, this is a bit easier to get ones head around: http://travel.howstuffworks.com/airplane1.htm

rooster

you don't need a wiki to tell you how flying works, its all pretty self-explanitory:

hope this sets your mind at ease

TomDunne

Awww, c'mon now... who doesn't love a little fluid dynamics? You've got some integrals in there, some Greek... Back in my engineering days, it was the pinnacle of comedy to say "Euler? Euler?" in a Ben Stein deadpan during calc class.

I was a nerd. I got better.

KDR_11k

I hate physics, could never remember which symbol meant what. But Mop, try to stay away from the math that goes on inside your 3d program, it'll make your hear a splode.