I think you just experienced physics first hand!

Turns out, the sky is pretty thick if you hit it hard enough.

it's crazy that you can just jump, and you go up for a bit.

The wings are crazy ! They look way too flimsy for what they do.

Next time you see an airplane, imagine a crane picking it up by the wings, around the middle of the wing length, and then start shaking it up.

It does not look like the wing will be able to hold that much weight.

It doesn't just fly, it rages against gravity, using every possible trick in the book

boy do I agree.

I fly a lot, and I think about this a lot. it's absolutely nuts.

I saw a diagram once explaining how planes fly, this is a good explanation of that:

"Airplane wings are shaped to make air move faster over the top of the wing. When air moves faster, the pressure of the air decreases. So the pressure on the top of the wing is less than the pressure on the bottom of the wing. The difference in pressure creates a force on the wing that lifts the wing up into the air."

so that's floating around the back of my mind while I sit in my air chair and think:

"and there we are.

We are climbing into the air again in the big flexible metal tube.

The wings have flex and they almost look like they are flapping in the wind right there.

well, this is crazy again"

approximates my thought process each time I fly.

More cool detail about a modern jet airliner than you thought imaginable all delivered in a cool 3D animation.

https://youtu.be/NZLbTuBDhJg?si=mdgytNATo5Tz9ltx

that and about 223,378 pounds of jet fuel then it flies

https://www.globalair.com/aircraft-for-sale/specifications?specid=1699

Wait till you discover about the concorde!

Due to the nature of my work I've flown hundreds of passenger flights of all sizes and I still find myself in awe.

What a privilege to be able to actually see down from such a range of heights too. Where there is still lots of detail to be found, but you can also get an appreciation of scale. It's honestly really amazing.