There is my plane – A380 – for tonight. It is one humongous beast. Other planes look really puny next to it!

The end of one wing to the other is nearly the length of a football field!! That Wright brother’s flight that got us into flying? They flew only half that distance!!!

The plane has the height of a ten story building! (This one knocked me off)

The plane weighs the same as … not ten, not twenty, not even hundred but 165 fully grown elephants!!!

My daughter’s entire elementary school can get in and then they will have some more seats open!!

It has space for 3000 suitcases!!!

I am told fifteen hundred companies manufacture various parts of this plane!!

If you took all the wires in this plane and laid them end to end, they would go over 500 kilometers!!!

It is amazing that with all that, it flies for fifteen hours continuously at 43,000 feet!!!

Wheels up from Atlanta. Wish I could bottle up some of this cold and damp weather and take it to boiling hot Kolkata.
Or as a statistician would say , on the “average”, I will be fine!!!

Started another of those quarterly pilgrimages to go see dad and mom in India. 36 hours of journey including 15 hours of layover in New York and Dubai. And then straight into 108 degrees cauldron called Kolkata!!!