Transportation
Did you Know
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The Spirit of St. Louis, Charles Lindbergh's plane, got 10 miles per gallon. In order to maximize fuel economy with then-existent technology, Charles decided to forgo a view and had to take off and land while looking through a periscope that peeped around the engine and a gas tank. There was no front window. For his own fuel he took two canteens full of water and 5 ham sandwiches. He was in competition (for the first solo transatlantic flight) with a certain Richard E Byrd, the famous polar explorer. |
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| In Germany is Volkswagenwerk, the largest car making factory in the world. There are over 43 miles of railroad tracks at the plant. 65,000 people work there. But General Motors employs more people at all of its many factories. They have nearly 1 million workers, more than the population of a good-size city. If you had all the GM workers stretch out their arms and hold hands, the chain of people would stretch from New York to Georgia. It would take 15 hours of non-stop driving to pass all those people. One out of every 200 adults in America works at General Motors. (this was in 1992) |
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| How many vehicles are there in America? Or more to the point, what would it look like to see all the vehicles at once? At a freeway interchange in Los Angeles a half-million cars and trucks pass daily. This is the highest traffic count in the US. Perhaps you can picture it if you live in LA or have seen such traffic on tv. Well, you would have to stand there and watch for almost six months to see as many cars and trucks as exist in America. (This was in 1992) |
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| If all the parked cars and trucks in Hong Kong were started up and driven onto the roads, they wouldn't fit. (This was in 1992) |
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| There is a street in Italy that is less than 1.5 feet wide. |
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| We might not care much about 48 horsepower these days, but a man in Iowa drove 48 horses hitched together. (In 1992) |
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| In 1978 Hans Millikin, a 39-year-old Baptist preacher crawled 1592 miles on his hands and knees. |
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| Sometimes success or failure is irrelevant. Evil Knievel did not succeed in his motorcycle jump across the Snake River Canyon, but made $6 million for trying. |
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| Did you know that every litre of fuel your vehicle burns adds an average of 2.4Kg of the "greenhouse" gas carbon dioxide into the atmosphere? |
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