There is enough fuel in a full jumbo jet tank to drive an average car four times around the world.

A Boeing 767 airliner is made of 3,100,000 separate parts.

The Concorde jet, which had its last flight in 2003, had a maximum speed of 1,350 miles per hour. It could fly from London to New York City in three hours, about half the time of other passenger planes.

The Wright brothers only flew together once, in 1910. This is because their father feared losing both sons in an airplane accident, so he gave them special permission just one time.

A study conducted in 2013 by the BBC found that 56% of pilots fell asleep while flying and 29% had woken up to find that the copilot was also asleep.

Jessica Cox, born in 1983 in Sierra Vista, Arizona, was born without arms due to a rare birth defect. She ended up being the first pilot ever to fly with no arms.