Flight

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Flight:

(a) "The flight is continuous."

(b) "People say, 'How was your trip?' But the trip is constant. It's a very local pattern compared with Earth going around the Sun at 60,000 mph which it does so very competently that we don't tend to think of it."

Citations

1. (a) RBF response to Mary Anne Kenner on greeting him at Friendship airport with the query, "How was your flight?" 3 Oct'73
2. (b) RBF in Johns Hopkins lecture, baltimore, 3 Oct'73