modern aeronautics

It must have been a big wind that blew the gigantic double decker plane (A380) carrying over 400 people and me from Sydney to LAX. How an impossibly huge aircraft can fly is a truly extraordinary feat of modern aeronautic engineering!

Leaving Sydney... from the onboard entertainment screen - they have a camera in the tail so you get a bird's eye view!

So to LA - the city where the car is king! After a night here to recover and aclimatise to the time switch I'll get onward to Alaska in the morning...