At thirty thousand feet, the sounds are unnerving. Why did anyone ever think this was a good idea? The air is not our natural element the first powered plane only stayed up for twelve seconds. We feel the strain as the engines grind, trying to lift an enormous, metal, bird-shaped machine packed with humans into the sky. During takeoff, the plane forces itself diagonally into the air, pinning us to our seats. Those of us with aviophobia know that flying is safe-it just doesn’t feel safe. He was finally forced onto a plane to shoot The Lord of the Rings in New Zealand, though he refused the helicopter ride to top of the mountain where they were filming, forcing the rest of the cast to wait while he walked up. Sean Bean ( Game of Thrones’s Ned Stark) drives to all of his European film locations. Liz McClarnon, the British pop singer and member of the Atomic Kittens, hasn’t been on a plane in four years. The NFL’s John Madden travels across the country in his “Madden Cruiser,” a customized coach bus. Plenty of people with enviable careers, even careers that require frequent travel, have managed it. Before takeoff, when the flight attendants are acting out the ways we’ll save ourselves in the event of a catastrophe, the same thought always occurs to me: it is possible not to fly.
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