Crazier still when you consider it's pushed into the sky by its own farts.

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

I think you just experienced physics first hand!

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

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

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

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