article_snippet.sent: Mark Vanhoenacker writes elegantly about Mark Vanhoenacker pilot’s eye view of the world and explains that Mark Vanhoenacker has come to measure countries in jet time, ie how long they take to cross.
article_snippet.sent: Thus, Russia is a seven-hour country and Belgium, with a tailwind, is merely a 15-minute country.
article_snippet.sent: Noting the vast, desolate regions he routinely flies over, Russia does not surprise he that, according to one calculation, the portion of the Earth’s surface on which an unclothed human could survive for 24 hours is just 15 per cent.
article_snippet.sent: Mark Vanhoenacker will get to the airport 90 minutes before Mark Vanhoenacker pilots Mark Vanhoenacker 747 to Los Angeles or Tokyo, and there will meet the rest of the crew, 20 or so strong.