air travel _ flight

I decided to start this blog because of a long trip I just had. But God knows how long it's gonna take to have those pics ready for post. And more importantly, bringing travel memory back in details requires "special mood" and all I have now is just post-vacation/travel sleepy mood. Good for me,
names + numbers - feelings = records

> first flight
23-year-old (considered super old for first time fly, and decided to fly or should say travel more to make up)   Shanghai - Hong Kong (still counted as international flight, not bad start)
tiny little nervous before + pretty good feeling after

> longest single flight + biggest airplane

New York (JFK) <-> Seoul (ICN) = 6,910 mi (11,121 km) = 14 hr
(thought Beijing -> New York should be longer, but it turns out = 6,838 mi = 13 hr 30 min, probably coz of different flight routes. guess it may need to compete with Tokyo -> New York as well, too lazy to check this out)

Boeing 747-400 [300+ seats]




> shortest single flight + smallest airplane
Chicago (ORD) <-> Iowa City (CID) = 196 mi (315 km) = 1 hr
Embraer EMB-140 [44 seats] (with 12 passages as my classmates and half empty seats, really felt like our own plane)

> first non-jet/turboprop flight 
Spokane -> Seattle = 224 mi (360 km) = 1 hr 3 min

De Havilland DHC-8-400 Dash 8/8Q [68 seats] 
(didn't win that model plane competition back to elementary school, otherwise, both this record and the first one should be able to backward 13 years...)

> most impressive bird view during flight
of course the gorgeous Manhattan view (day + night)
tip: from LaGuadia airport (not sure about Kennedy) fly domestic heading west, window seat left side both departure and arrival
good weather

> most un-impressive flight
Tokyo -> Beijing
(slept through the whole flight w/o noticing departure and arrival, even missed flight meal. thanks for... let's leave the story for travel series later)

> most flights in shortest timeline
8 flights in 8 days (Mar 5, 2007 ~ Mar 12, 2007)
new york -> chicago  -> iowa city -> chicago -> san paulo -> rio de janeiro -> san paulo -> washington, dc -> new york
  


Enough for today and guess won't be able to break the records for quite a while...

* will have a twin post [~ _ airport] soon, hopefully