Fifteen days
A British Airways Boeing 737 will be touching down in Cape Town airport in fifteen days. Five thousand of these launch themselves from tarmac every day, propelling almost two hundred souls ten kilometres into the stratosphere at speeds reaching nine hundred kilometres an hour, that's one kilometre for every four seconds.
The supreme pinnacle of steel and science, arching across the skies with the same monotony as the sun. I travel half way around the world within a day, and I don't give it a moment's thought.
